john q public wrote:
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:50 PM, David Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2008 23:00:42 +0200
Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008 17:10:03 schrieb David Jensen:
...
You will probably want to learn autoconf and friends, sigh...
hmm, any suggestions one that one? I started to look around a bit
but i found only very basic samples or too sophisticated things or
outdated ones...
Yes, it's a pain. As you said, a lot of examples are outdated.
Actually, I started with the original BLFS hint.
The autotools are really not that hard. The best way to learn it is
just to make a silly project. Here is a barebones project making use
of autoconf, automake and libtool:
cat > configure.ac << "EOF"
AC_INIT([foo],[0.1],[[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
dnl foreign is just so automake doesn't complain about missing COPYING, etc.
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
EOF
cat > Makefile.am << "EOF"
# create a shared libary libbaz and a program foo linking to it
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libbaz.la
libbaz_la_SOURCES = baz.c baz.h
include_HEADERS = baz.h
bin_PROGRAMS = foo
foo_SOURCES = foo.c
foo_LDADD = libbaz.la
EOF
cat > baz.h << "EOF"
void jimmy(void);
EOF
cat > baz.c << "EOF"
void jimmy(void)
{
return;
}
EOF
cat > foo.c << "EOF"
#include "baz.h"
int main(void)
{
jimmy();
return 0;
}
EOF
Rebuild the autotools, configure, make
autoreconf -iv
./configure
make
And there is a ton of documentation on the autotools, with the
autobook being a great high level tutorial.
http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/
What I've also found useful is just to read some of the autoconf
macros. They're in m4, but not that difficult to understand without
knowing m4. Look in /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf and
/usr/share/aclocal. You'll probably want to be somewhat familiar with
the pkg-config macros in aclocal/pkg.m4.
--
Dan
BTW Im working on MTPDude a gui for MTP based players and its going
well. I think I may have succeeded in
deGnomeing it and now I'm cleaning up the calls based on the old
version of libmtp. Wish me luck and maybe
I can post a new easier to compile toy. And its true I don't need an
IDE to do this but one may still prove useful
in the future as a means of organizing things. Checked out the GTK+3
effort and agree 100% I think
they have the right idea about merging or eliminating the codebases I'd
complained about.
John
Thanks for the suggestions and advice on getting started cleaning this
stuff up. I've just gotten MTPdude to
work without gnomeui and ran through a few of the menu items without a
segfault! Also I updated the calls to
libmtp and it's talking to my Zen without a hitch so far. I'm not sure
what I should do next but I think some
people might be able to put this code to use. So I guess its on to
autoconf tho that will not be the fun part.
What should I do if I come up with code I'd like to put out there?
There's a sourceforge project for this stuff
but Im not sure I'll even be able to contact the author.
Regards,
John
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