docs/tech/tn0013.txt

   1                       How to prepare wxGTK distribution
   2                       =================================
   3
   4 0. Introduction
   5 ---------------
   6
   7 This note explains what should be done, step by step, to prepare the packages
   8 for a wxGTK distribution. Note that the same instructions should be used for
   9 the other Unix-based ports including wxMotif, wxX11 and wxBase.
  10
  11 1. Preparing the sources
  12 ------------------------
  13
  14 a) Do a fresh checkout using the command
  15
  16         cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.wxwindows.org:/home/wxcvs co wxGTK
  17
  18    NB: if you realize later that some needed files were not checked out
  19        by this command, please modify CVSROOT/modules to include the missing
  20        files so that it works for the next release!
  21
  22    You also need the samples, demos and contrib directories, so change to
  23    wxWindows directory created by the first cvs command and do "cvs up -d"
  24    for each of them.
  25
  26 b) Create a build directory under wxWindows, e.g. I use "gtk-release",
  27    "cd" to it and run configure: the options don't really matter, you can use
  28    something like
  29
  30        ../configure --no-recursion
  31
  32    to make it run a bit faster.
  33
  34 c) Then type "make -j1 dist bzip-dist-only". This should create the
  35    following files;
  36
  37    wxGTK-${version}.tar.bz2
  38    wxGTK-demos-${version}.tar.bz2
  39    wxGTK-samples-${version}.tar.bz2
  40    wxGTK-${version}.tar.gz
  41    wxGTK-demos-${version}.tar.gz
  42    wxGTK-samples-${version}.tar.gz
  43
  44    where version is something like 2.3.2.
  45
  46    Note 1: "-j1" is needed now because make dist target is broken and doesn't
  47            allow parallelizing, if your make is aliased to "make -j4" (like
  48            mine), it simply won't work.
  49
  50    Note 2: there are also dist-only and bzip-dist targets, the "-only" suffix
  51            means to just create the archive supposing that the files
  52            themselves are already under _dist_dir/wxGTK-${version} where
  53            "make dist" creates them
  54
  55 2. Building the RPMs
  56 --------------------
  57
  58 Note that we didn't check if the library actually could be built -- this is
  59 because it is done during this step, during the RPM generation. If, for
  60 whatever reason, you don't build the RPMs, you must have checked previously
  61 that the library could be built -- nothing worse than a release which doesn't
  62 even compile!
  63
  64 The rest of this section applies to a system with RPM installed (Redhat in my
  65 case).
  66
  67 a) Setting up the RPM tree: you should have the RPM tree set up properly
  68    before doing anything else. If you are going to build the RPMs as root,
  69    you already have one under /usr/src/redhat and can just build there.
  70    Otherwise you may do it (without root rights) in any directory RPM_ROOT.
  71    RPM_ROOT should have the following subdirectories: BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES,
  72    SPECS and SRPMS. RPMS should contain i386, i686 and noarch. You should
  73    also create the file ~/.rpmmacros containing at least a line like this:
  74    "%_topdir /biton/zeitlin/rpm" (replace the directory with $RPM_ROOT, of
  75    course)
  76
  77    In either case, put the file wxGTK-${version}.tar.bz2 in SOURCES
  78    subdirectory and wxGTK.spec in SPECS one (hint: you can just link them from
  79    there -- like this you won't forget to update them after redoing "make
  80    dist").
  81
  82 b) Start RPM build by going to RPM_ROOT directory and typing "rpm -ba
  83    SPECS/wxGTK.spec". It may be a good idea to append "2&>1 | tee wxGTK.out"
  84    (or "|& tee" if you're using the one true shell ;-) as it might be not
  85    easy to detect errors in the verbose rpm output if anything goes wrong.
  86
  87    Then wait (and pray that nothing goes wrong because if anything does
  88    you'll have to restart from the very beginning because rpm doesn't allow
  89    to short circuit the package generation).
  90
  91    If everything goes well, the following files are produced:
  92
  93    SRPMS/wxGTK-${version}-1.src.rpm
  94    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  95    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-devel-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  96    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-gl-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  97    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-static-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  98
  99
 100    Note: you may want to set the environment variable SMP to 3 or 4 on an
 101          SMP machine to speed up the build (it uses "make -j$SMP" if the
 102          variable is set)
 103
 104 c) Test the resulting RPMs: install them using "rpm -i" (or "rpm -U) as usual
 105    and try to build some samples using makefile.unx ("make -f makefile.unx")
 106    so that they use wx-config in the PATH and not from the build tree
 107
 108 3. Building the DEBs
 109 --------------------
 110
 111 [Ron is doing this]
 112
 113 4. Uploading the files
 114 ----------------------
 115
 116 All 11 files should be uploaded (via FTP) to several locations.
 117
 118 a) incoming.sourceforge.net, go to project admin page on sf.net and choose
 119    add/edit releases for more details
 120
 121 b) ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub (Julian has the password)
 122
 123 5. Announcing the release
 124 -------------------------
 125
 126 a) FreshMeat:
 127    - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/
 128    - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in
 129    - hit "new release" at the top
 130    - follow the step by step
 131
 132 b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org
 133
 134    [where is the announcement text? TODO]
 135
 136 c) update www.wxwindows.org
 137
 138 d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days):
 139     - http://www.gnome.org/applist
 140     - Search for wxWindows
 141     - Update the version number
 142     - Ignore the error message
 143
 144 e) MacNN:
 145    - http://www.macnn.com
 146    - Contact or Contribute or something
 147
 148 f) MacRumors:
 149    - http://www.macrumors.com
 150    - Contact or Contribute or something
 151
 152 g) Apple Developers Connection:
 153     mailto: adcnews@apple.com
 154
 155 h) LinuxDevices.com:
 156     Interesting for wxUniversal.
 157
 158 i) The Python mailing list:
 159