On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Mat Schaffer wrote: > What's the goal here? Being able to build Glark on windows? You
My immediate goal is to build it on *native* windows. But it would help me, and would be the next step, if I could leave things so that is it easier for others to build glark on Windows. [In particular, if I can send patches that are accepted, then I can pass the next release to someone and say "take these few steps to install it" then use it in helping them with the problem that got me here in the first place.] > probably need cygwin. If you're trying to build an installer for > windows for other people, you might want to consider just a zip file Yes, a Zip file is part of my plan. Currently glark is distributed as a tar file and an RPM. > of pre-compiled binaries or something like that. Either way, I don't Binaries, AFAICS are not needed, glark is pure ruby. It's getting rake to put things in the right place on a system that is not my own that is the issue for me at the moment. So therefore my questions about tasks that come with Rake which I can't immediately see. > get the feeling rake is the magic bullet you're looking for. It's not a magic bullet, it is an alternative to Make, which is how I am trying to use it. Having decided to use it, I'd like to use it effectively. > > Also any specific error messages, or feedback from the glark people > might help. There are no error messages: I've not used their installer because it is clearly stated therein that it is for systems that use RPMs, such as Linux: PACKAGE=glark VERSION=1.8.0 # defaults to nothing; set by RPM during building of RPMs DESTDIR ?= And having read the existing Makefile, converting it to Windows whilst keeping it compatible would be a pain. I also aim NOT to break anything. Adding a Rakefile for used instead of a Makefile leaves existing infrastructure intact. This seems to follow "first, do no harm". I've already stated that I emailed Jeff about this in the past, but since he hasn't addressed the Windows case, the best way to proceed would be to attempt this myself. He has accepted constructive suggestions and the odd patch from me before. I'm probably the only person pestering him about Windows anyway. > -Mat > _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
