distrib/msw/readme.txt

   1 Distribution scripts and lists
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   3
   4 This directory (distrib\msw) contains some 4DOS batch files
   5 (.bat) and 'response' files (.rsp) to simplify the job of
   6 producing distributions. The .rsp files specify which files are
   7 associated with a particular module, e.g. wx200vc.rsp refers to
   8 the VC++ project files, wx200gen.rsp represents the generic files,
   9 wx200msw.rsp specifies the Windows specific files, etc.
  10
  11 When making a distribution on Windows, I call zipdist.bat to prepare
  12 zip files with everything needed for Windows,
  13 GTK and Motif. zipdist then unzips some of them into
  14 deliver\wx, removes and adds a few files to perfect the
  15 distribution.
  16
  17 zipdist then calls 'makewise.bat' to generate a new wxwin2.wse
  18 script, for WISE Installer. It takes wisetop.txt, wisebott.txt
  19 and adds the section for file installation. (If you've modified
  20 wxwin2.wse using WISE Installer, simply compile and run splitwise.exe
  21 to put back up-to-date wisetop.txt, wisebott.txt files before
  22 running zipdist.)
  23
  24 Finally, zipdist runs WISE Installer using a command line
  25 argument to produce the setup.* files automatically.
  26
  27 Note that although zipdist.bat produces archives for 3 platforms,
  28 I only use a subset of these to produce the Windows-specific
  29 setup.exe. I then have the option of distributing the zip files
  30 as well.
  31
  32 You may need to install 4DOS to run these scripts. If anyone
  33 wishes to remove 4DOS dependency, that's fine with me.
  34
  35 Julian Smart, 11th October 1999
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