Universal install-type

[eisterman]

Hi, I'm an ArchLinux user and I wanted to use this software but while I was compiling the source I noticed how the possibility of compiling without creating a deb or a rpm is not considered.

Is it possible in the future to have a compile option without mandatory packaging?

[gcad3d]

The first step is to compile all then an additional step creates a deb or rpm. ???
See README. Which commands did you use ?
Franz.

[alex-fu27]

I wanted to try gcad3d today, but I believe that I ran into the same problem:

[alex@alexnb APP]$ ./do debug_OFF
gcad_dir_dev=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/|
gcad_dir_bin=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/|
gcad_dir_dev:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/
gcad_dir_bin:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/
[alex@alexnb APP]$ ./do complete
gcad_dir_dev=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/|
gcad_dir_bin=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/|
gcad_dir_dev:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/
gcad_dir_bin:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/
gcad_dir_dev=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/|
gcad_dir_bin=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/|
delete all gcad-objs (*.o)
gcad_dir_dev=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/|
gcad_dir_bin=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/|
gcad_dir_dev:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/
gcad_dir_bin:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/
which: no rpm in (/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/uti:/opt/cuda/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
instTyp = |deb|
../gui_version_set.sh: Zeile 19: dpkg: Kommando nicht gefunden.
**** gui_version_set.sh ERROR gtk2 not installed
gcad_dir_dev=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/|
gcad_dir_bin=|/mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/|
gcad_dir_dev:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/
gcad_dir_bin:  /mnt/c/Users/Alexander/projects/sw/gcad3d/build/gcad3d/Linux_x86_64/
which: no rpm in (/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/home/alex/bin:/home/alex/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/uti:/opt/cuda/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
instTyp = |deb|
../gui_version_set.sh: Zeile 37: dpkg: Kommando nicht gefunden.
**** gui_version_set.sh ERROR gtk3 not installed
****** ERROR build gui-gtk3 *******

The problem is that in fact very few Linux distributions use dpkg as a package manager, and not all use the Debian package format or RPM. This may work on your home PC and most Debian PCs, but to reach more users, you need a build configuration system that has a more distribution-independent way of checking for dependencies. Like cmake, for example.

Your current build scripts are in fact quite confusing to me. As far as I understand, I have to set the environment variable DIR_DEV to the parent directory of the location where I cloned the repository. So the first assumption you made is that everyone will clone the repository into a directory called gcad3d. So for example naming it gdac3d-git or test_gcad3d is impossible. This also raises fears in me that your script could change something in my ~/projects/sw/.

To return to @eisterman's issue: I belive that he saw the output I got and thought the script needed rpm for building because of the output which: no rpm in ...

[gcad3d]

Hallo, concerning:

  very few Linux distributions use dpkg as a package manager ..

- what else would be better ?

  fears in me that your script could change something in my ~/projects/sw/.

- why should there be a difference to test_gcad3d or any other directory ? - why not eg ../projects/sw/test_/gcad3d/  ??

To return to @eisterman's issue

- we do not have knowledge of eisterman's issue Mit freundlichen Grüßen Franz Reiter

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[alex-fu27]

we do not have knowledge of eisterman's issue

Yes! That is because he did not post any logs because he probably gave up on trying to build gcad3d quickly after discovering that you did not consider that somebody might want to build gcad3d on a different system than whatever you are using.

what else would be better?

Please, please make people able to build gcad3d from source without having any package manager installed at all.

[gcad3d]

- if you do: # build: ./do complete # start (test) ./do # copy into system sudo -E ./do install_test_deb # user-start cd gcad3d - where is the problem ??

[alex-fu27]

The only thing I can do for you is to again post a copy of my shell output. This time I attached it to the comment.

See test.log

[gcad3d]

dpkg -l checks if the development-libs of gtk2 or gtk3 are installed. We did not find a useful replacement, so we must add dpkg to the software required for build.

[gcad3d]

build-scripts are updated; no usage of dpkg or rpm; see howto at -
https://gcad3d.org/doc/install_en.txt

short:
# start commandline (eg gnome-terminal)
# activate home-directory
cd
# create basedirectory for installation (arbitrary name - eg devel)
mkdir devel
cd devel
# get all files into ~/devel/gcad3d/*
git clone https://github.com/gcad3d/gcad3d.git
# goto dev-dir
cd ${HOME}/devel/gcad3d/src/APP
# build complete
./do complete
# start gcad3d
./do