Hi Isaac,
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Isaac Rose <isaacdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, accidentally sent an incomplete message. > Hi everyone, I have just started to use Celix and have been trying to get > going using the instructions at this link. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/celix/site/trunk/content/documentation/getting_started.md Note that these instruction are still work in progress. I still need to do grammer/spelllng cleanup and - more importantly - check if everything is really works as described. That being said, good to see somebody already using it :) > > 1. Do I need to install libxml2-dev .deb package as well? Not for the core framework and the basic bundles (shell, shell_tui, etc). libxml2 is needed for the remote services. > 2. Is libslp-dev .deb package only needed if I enable RSA SLP? Correct > 3. What is the minimum set of Celix bundles that need to be built? The shell en shell_tui. Both are handy to have when your start developing your own bundles and the celix cmake modules uses the shell bundle to find the CELIX_BUNDLES_DIR. > a. What are each of the BUILD_ bundles in CCMAKE and what are they > used for? This might already be documented somewhere. Maybe just a > reference/link to that page would work. The BUILD_ options can be used to enable/disable additional bundles to be build/installed. These are mentioned in the specific sub project pages [1]. Seeing this question, I think it is also wise to mentioned them in the getting started guide. > 4. It wasn't clear in the instructions, but it seems that I need to > checkout celix and create a build and a install folder. > a. Perhaps a better visualization of the folder tree with an > explanation of what each directory is for. > > |--celix_src (Checkout of celix trunk) > |--celix_build(build of celix - run cmake and make from here) > |--install (the location of the celix runtime and the target directory > where the ./celix_build/make install-all) > |--my_celix_src (location of my celix bundles > '--my_celix_build (the location where cmake and make are run for my bundles. Good point, although the install does not have to be in a "workspace" directory. > > That is all the suggestions I have for now. I am trying to work my way > through creating a bundle and may have some more suggestions after that. Thanks for the feedback. > > Thanks, > Isaac > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Isaac Rose <isaacdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I have just started to use Celix and have been trying to get >> going using the instructions at this link. >> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/celix/site/trunk/content/documentation/getting_started.md >> >> 1. Do I need to install libxml2-dev .deb package as well? >> 2. Is libslp-dev .deb package only needed if I enable RSA SLP? >> 3. What is the minimum set of Celix bundles that need to be built? >> >> [1] http://celix.apache.org/subprojects.html Greetings, Pepijn
