Re: First time packager questions

["Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Ralph Hempel wrote:
> I am shortly going to ITP my first package (Lua) and have a few
> questions:
> 
> 0. Should I use cygport to build my package? I've got a clean
>    source tree and I've made changes in a separate tree to make
>    it easier to generate diffs.

If you want to package lua, you may find this useful:

http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/lang/lua5.1/

>    Also, I've designed my own make scripts to build everything
>    correctly in a separate output tree, ie I don't build in the
>    source tree.

cygport provides lndirs() for use in those packages that weren't meant
for out-of-tree builds.

> 1. Should my build make just a .dll file to link against, or should
>    I also provide a .a library for static linking?

A DLL is a necessity on Cygwin for most libraries; whether to make a
static library also depends on the package.  Ports' lua package provides
both.

> 2. If I'm planning on adding a few "standard" Lua libraries like
>    LuaSQL, LuaFileSystem, and LuaSocket, should they be separate
>    ITPs?

Yes.

> 3. I'm currently using Cygwin 1.7 and gcc-4 to build and test
>    this out, but should I do it for 1.5 as well?

gcc-4.3 is not yet finalized; it should not be used for building
packages going into the distro.


Yaakov
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