On 2/28/21 6:51 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I had to build IUP from source for Ubuntu 64 ARM on my RPi 4B. It failed
> with he PDF dependency I couldn't find. Manually using make in the
> sub-souece directories created a usable build.
> [...]
G'day,
I've been working on GNU/Linux portability, but have not
tried using any ARM build (it wasn't present when I started,
and my development pathway has resulted in me not tracking
ports to new architectures -- feature creep, along with
keeping track of changes in the sources, has been
time-consuming).
I hope, within the next few weeks, to release an
"IM/CD/IUP" install/build/run assistant, named "icua", for
the Tecgraf projects, focussing on GNU/Linux. This
includes two new "child" projects spun out of CD, namely
pdflib7 and ftgl. The first release, despite being many
months in the making, is expected to be "icua-0.1-rc1".
The Assistant currently works on the following amd64
distros:
Linux Mint 18.3
Linux Mint 19.1
Linux Mint 19.10 (? not sure if end-of-life)
Linux Mint 20
Linux Mint 20.1 (? not sure if withdrawn)
Ubuntu 18.04.3
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 20.04
CentOS 7
Sadly (but partially to stay sane/limit feature creep),
both Lua 5.1 and associated LuaRocks associated are
system-installed. In addition, the installer uses sudo
to install Lua, LuaRocks itself, selected LuaRocks
packages, and to modify the system to include package
dependencies, e.g. "libfftw3-bin", "libfreetype6-dev".
The dangers of sudo, and various other considerations,
may mean that the Assistant is best run inside a
virtualised environment; it needs a network connection,
both for OS package references, and very probably also
so that it can track the latest changes to the SourceForge
IM/CD/IUP projects.
---------------------
Here is an extract from the main database file for the
assistant, "assistant-database.lua", which is an executable
Lua script in its own right. This excerpt is from the iup
project:
------------ (Start of excerpt) ------------
LastChangedDate = "2021-01-13T22:17:03.071354Z",
LatestRelease = "3.30",
DistroEnvStatic = {
Manifest = {"ubuntu", "linuxmint", "centos_7"},
ubuntu = {
Manifest = {"Dependencies"},
Dependencies = {
"%e cd:ubuntu",
"libwebkitgtk-3.0-0",
"libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev",
"libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev",
"libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37",
"libwebkit2gtk-4.0.37-gtk2",
},
},
linuxmint = "=ubuntu",
centos_7 = {
Manifest = {"Dependencies"},
Dependencies = {
"%e cd:centos_7",
"webkitgtk3-devel",
},
},
},
Patches = {
"iup-silly.patch",
},
Build = {
Manifest = {"Path",
"/CmdPrefixList", "Cmd", "CmdSuffixList"},
Path = "",
CmdPrefixList = {
},
Cmd = "make",
CmdSuffixList = {
{"USE_PKGCONFIG", "Yes"},
{"LUA_LIB", "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"},
{"LUA_BIN", "/usr/bin"},
{"LUABIN", "/usr/bin/lua"},
{"EXCLUDE_TARGETS", "iupvled"},
},
},
Runfiles = {
"libiupluaLUA_SFX.so",
"../libiup.so",
},
------------ (End of excerpt) ------------
There is an eye on expanding the list of supported distros:
For example, the Dependencies for linuxmint is merely
"=ubuntu", and the IUP dependencies "e"xecutes the
dependencies implied by its reliance on CD: "%e cd:ubuntu".
Another dependency command is "%d" -- delete.
The Build->Runfiles section includes a nod towards
supporting Lua versions other than 5.1: LUA_SFX. However,
version 5.1 is still hardwired at a few points at present.
--
I'm currently working on setting up a cloud-hosted project
to hold icua; while work is progressing, there's still a lot
to do.
cheers,
sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
programmer, Grouse Software
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