On 04.06.2011, at 13:45, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > On 4 Jun 2011, at 11:36, Marcel Bruch wrote: > >> On 03.06.2011, at 17:30, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >> >>> I don't know much about the state of the above nor eclipse, but running >>> CouchDB in "embedded mode" is just like calling like any other third party >>> command-line tool. What other specific requirements does Eclipse have? >> >> The word "embedded" was not well chosen. It shouldn't be required to have a >> local Erlang runtime nor CouchDB to be installed *before* on client side. >> >> However, I just recognized that couchdb is started via commandline >> "/usr/bin/erl <many options>", right? Thus, what's needed is (i) a Erlang >> runtime installation as a plug-in and (ii) a couchdb installation as >> plug-in. Both plug-ins would be platform-specific, right? >> >> If so, we need to come up with 2 x 2 x "OS-Variants" plug-ins? If we would >> like to support Mac 32/64, Win 32/64, Linux 32/64 we need 2 x 2 x 6 = 24 >> plug-ins? >> >> Thanks helping me to grasp what would be needed to run CouchDB on a client. > > https://github.com/jhs/build-couchdb will build a CouchDB and all > dependencies for you in a neat package. But yeah, you'd need one per > architecture if you want to have it all fit (64bit Mac OS X *can* run 32bit > binaries e.g.), but if the procedure of producing a plugin is automated, I'm > sure a lot of people would pitch into providing binaries. >
your build script works like a charm. Just a few questions regarding you build: It seems that *everything* required to run couch has been built and packaged below build/ (including Erlang), right? There is no dependency anymore that needs to be installed before I can run CouchDB on my machine, i.e., if I copy the build folder to another machine (same OS) it should work there too? If so, then it might become quite easy to create Eclipse bundles from it - and along with Ryan's management scripts it should be straight forward (more or less). The issue with "one plug-in per platform" remains but may be acceptable if others contribute builds for different platforms. Another one: Is Couch itself platform dependent - or just Erlang? (you see, I'm quite foolish when it comes to Erlang) If not, there is another solution we might come up with: I was asking on the Erlide mailing list for support on building Erlang runtime as Eclipse plug-in. It seems that this should be possible. Maybe there is one solution that solves more than just one problem. We'll see. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27599848 Thanks, Marcel
