[Gambas-devel] Installer

[Benoît Minisini]

> 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:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11775.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % 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
> 

I don't know why the program is running that way: "$prefix/lib/ld-linux.so.2 
..."

Maybe you can try:

- Running it directly, provided that ld-linux.so.2 is already located in your 
$prefix/lib directory.

- Or running "gbr2 <program>.gambas" instead of running "<program>.gambas" 
directly. It should do the same thing.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini