[Gambas-user] How to make installation package

[gbwilly at ...3606...]

On 2017-07-07 16:18, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> 2017-07-07 10:15 GMT-03:00 <gbwilly at ...3606...>: wrote
> 
> The target system where you want to install the gambas application on 
> has
>>>> to have the link to the gambas repository.
>>>> Seems you are on Debian/Ubuntu.
>>>> 
>>>> For Ubuntu open terminal on target system and do:
>>>> 
>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gambas-team/gambas3
>>>> sudo apt-get update
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Next you can install your gambas application, it will pull in all
>>>> dependencies (like interpreter) and install them.
>>>> It will only install those parts of Gambas the application needs to 
>>>> run
>>>> properly.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Above is for Gambas stable 3.9.2, if you developed your application 
>>>> in
>>>> trunk you will need to add trunk repo to target system instead of 
>>>> stable
>>>> repo.
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this explains all.
>>> 
>>> 

Hi Fernando,


> Willy, it does explain. Just to be on the safe side:
> a) It means Gambas iteself is not installed when we run the package
> installer, right?


It does NOT install Gambas IDE,  only those parts needed to run your 
Gambas application (so interpreter, components used etc.)


> b) What do the *.deb files do? Just copy the sorce code and the 
> bytecode to
> the new system?

They are the debian installer files.
They do all kinds of things like put your executable at proper location, 
pull in the needed dependencies (like interpreter, components used by 
your application...), make desktop menu entry, take care of application 
icon and all more that is needed to make your application work properly 
on the system it is installed too.

Debain determines how these files are build. They have policies (see: 
https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging)

Hope this clarifies things for you.

gbWilly