[Gambas-devel] Installer

[craf]

Hi.

Do not know if this is the appropriate channel to communicate. If not,
please let me know and write to the user list.

At this point I still have the evidence to make a Windows-style
installer, which includes all shared libraries, components and
executable.

Following the kind indications of Benoit, I have managed to create
installers for GTK, QT and shell scripts.

All this is slow as I try on in each of the distributions are known and
date of support.

For example, the script file (exe.sh) to run a console program is as
follows:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/bin:"$PATH"
export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/lib_shared/usr/lib
export GB_DIR=/home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2
exec /home/User/Desktop/Installer/console.gambas
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The tree of the installed folder is as follows:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
.
|-- Installer
|   |-- exe.sh
|   |-- gambas2
|   |   |-- bin
|   |   |   |-- gbr2 -> /home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/bin/gbx2
|   |   |   `-- gbx2
|   |   |-- lib
|   |   |   `-- gambas2
|   |   |       |-- gb.so
-> /home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/lib/gambas2/gb.so.0.0.0
|   |   |       |-- gb.so.0
-> /home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/lib/gambas2/gb.so.0.0.0
|   |   |       `-- gb.so.0.0.0
|   |   `-- lib_shared
|   |       `-- usr
|   |           `-- lib
|   |               |-- libffi.so.5
-> /home/User/Desktop/Installer/gambas2/lib_shared/usr/lib/libffi.so.5.0.10
|   |               `-- libffi.so.5.0.10
|   `-- console.gambas

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The file gbr2 was compiled with 2.10.1 GLIBC in Ubuntu 9.10.

If I run the script, runs smoothly on any computer with GBLIC version
2.10.1.

Now, if I run the program in Ubuntu 10.4, an error is generated due to
the incompatibility of GLIBC. (This uses the version 2.11 of glibc)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gbr2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found
(required by gbr2)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Searching the Internet, I found a possible solution. here the link:

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http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11775.html
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I have tried to do what follows, but there are some problems:

According to step 3 of the tutorial:

Create a wrapper script to set up the appropriate environment variables
and start the program:

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% cd $prefix/bin
% mv zoo zoo.exec
% cat > zoo << EOF
#! /bin/bash
prefix=/opt/compat-env/zoo
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$prefix/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$prefix/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ${0}.exec "$@"
EOF
% chmod 755 zoo
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The executable (.exec) begins with the indication of the path of the
library ld-linux.so.2

This should work if the executable is compiled and not interpreted.

If replacement .exec by console.gambas , I get an error ELF.

This is due to be gbr2 and not console.gambas which is called with
ld-linux.so.2 

I apologize for such a long email.I appreciate any suggestions

Regards.

Cristian Abarzúa