As there were no objections I am planning on adding the "portable" target to CMakeLists.txt and to
add a new subdirectory named "support" that will contain a "portable" directory containing the
support programs for creating portable ooRexx zip archives including setupoorexx.{rex|cmd} which
create the scripts to run ooRexx (programs) from that location; if the location changes (e.g. if you
have the unzipped files on an USB-stick and use it on a different computer) one merely needs to
rerun setupoorexx.{rex|cmd} to get everything adjusted. This way such portable versions can become
part of a toolbox for programmers that they can carry along on an USB stick and have ooRexx
available wherever they go to. :)
The link (for a now older version of ooRexx in portable form) from the earlier posting below is
still available for those who wish to test such portable versions on Windows (32- and 64-bit, Linux
(64-bit) and/or MacOS (64-bit).
---rony
On 01.02.2022 14:49, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
Inspired by Java/OpenJDK zip archives I tried to create "portable" versions of ooRexx. Once
unzipped, there is a simple, uniform directory layout that is the same for all operating systems
(bin, doc, include, lib, samples).
In addition the unzipped directory includes a utility named "setupoorexx.{cmd|sh}" and if run,
creates two shell scripts, a "rxenv.{sh|cmd}" and "setenv2rxenv.{sh|cmd}" which point/refer to the
local, unzipped ooRexx.
This way one can easily have a number of different "potable" ooRexx interpreters with different
revisions, bitnesses, release and debug versions that can be run/tested at the same time on the
same machine (e.g. for development or testing or demonstration purposes).
It would be possible to carry those portable ooRexx interpreters on an USB stick (and run them
from there on any operating system after running the setupoorexx shell script) or to place them on
a local network or even to attach them to a mail.
The cmake driven operation will create two versions, a full version and a runtime version (the
runtime version does not include the doc and samples directories).
The scripts generated with "setupoorexx.{sh|cmd}" make it easy to run Rexx programs without having
ooRexx installed on a target system.
---
To see or test for yourself you may use this temporary Dropbox link:
<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n65twckpkixl9gm/AADrnjgHAqiWQQU17GjGrtpna?dl=0> which used the latest
version of ooRexx 5.0 from trunk for Apple, Linux and Windows.
Its content is:
Directory of e:\Dropbox\portable\release
01.02.2022 14:17 <DIR> .
01.02.2022 14:17 <DIR> ..
30.01.2022 18:59 1 833 594
ooRexx-5.0.0-darwin64-r12352-universal-portable-release-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 18:59 11 446 653
ooRexx-5.0.0-darwin64-r12352-universal-portable-release.zip
01.02.2022 14:06 1 420 066
ooRexx-5.0.0-linux64-r12352-x86_64-portable-release-runtime.zip
01.02.2022 14:06 11 022 636
ooRexx-5.0.0-linux64-r12352-x86_64-portable-release.zip
30.01.2022 13:24 1 439 030
ooRexx-5.0.0-win32-r12352-x86_32-portable-release-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 13:24 21 009 536
ooRexx-5.0.0-win32-r12352-x86_32-portable-release.zip
30.01.2022 14:10 1 636 074
ooRexx-5.0.0-win64-r12352-x86_64-portable-release-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 14:10 21 210 870
ooRexx-5.0.0-win64-r12352-x86_64-portable-release.zip
8 File(s) 71 018 459 bytes
Directory of e:\Dropbox\portable\release\debug
01.02.2022 14:17 <DIR> .
01.02.2022 14:17 <DIR> ..
30.01.2022 18:59 2 638 395
ooRexx-5.0.0-darwin64-r12352-universal-portable-debug-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 18:59 12 263 053
ooRexx-5.0.0-darwin64-r12352-universal-portable-debug.zip
01.02.2022 14:09 5 899 821
ooRexx-5.0.0-linux64-r12352-x86_64-portable-debug-runtime.zip
01.02.2022 14:09 15 625 873
ooRexx-5.0.0-linux64-r12352-x86_64-portable-debug.zip
30.01.2022 13:50 7 662 456
ooRexx-5.0.0-win32-r12352-x86_32-portable-debug-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 13:50 27 299 302
ooRexx-5.0.0-win32-r12352-x86_32-portable-debug.zip
30.01.2022 14:22 8 036 177
ooRexx-5.0.0-win64-r12352-x86_64-portable-debug-runtime.zip
30.01.2022 14:22 27 692 923
ooRexx-5.0.0-win64-r12352-x86_64-portable-debug.zip
8 File(s) 107 118 000 bytes
You will notice the differences in size depending whether it is the debug or the release version
and depending whether it is the full or the runtime version.
---
If you can see utility in this, then I am more than happy to commit the necessary changes to the
project such that one simply needs to issue "make portable".
You can download any of the above portable zip archives for your operating system, unzip them, run
the setupoorexx shell scripts and study the readme.txt output.
---rony
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