This file is currently just a brain dump of my experiences with
building the Debian wx packages, based on various experimentations,
and Googling around. Please don't take anything said here as
-autoritative or written in stone. Although I've been able to get
+authoritative or written in stone. Although I've been able to get
things to work fairly reliably, I still feel pretty clueless about
some things.
Overview
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-Contrary to how RPM and other pacakging systems work, building Debian
+Contrary to how RPM and other packaging systems work, building Debian
packages is done with an expanded source tree instead of using a
tarball. Inside the toplevel of the source tree you'll find a subdir
named debian, and within this dir are various files used by the build.
The most important of these are the control file and the rules file.
-The control file specifies the metadata about each pacakge, such as
+The control file specifies the metadata about each package, such as
name, description, dependencies, etc. Interestingly, the version
number of the current build is not in the control file as might be
expected, but is instead taken from the changelog file. I guess this
toplevel source dir and extracting from it the flavour name (if
present) for use in passing to --with-flavor configure flag. (I'm
considering changing how it finds this value for 2.7 so, for example,
-the debian packages could also be build from the wxPython source
+the debian packages could also be built from the wxPython source
tarball...) Second, since the build tools use the current source dir
for creating the source package, you'll probably want to start with a
-clean source tree that has had uneccessary things removed from it.
+clean source tree that has had unnecessary things removed from it.
There is a Makefile target that will create a minimized and clean
source tree for you, and will name it as debian/rules expects. To use
it go to a build dir where you've already run configure, and then run:
Environment
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-The various dpkg helper tools will use some environtment settings to
+The various dpkg helper tools will use some environment settings to
provide default values. I have these set:
DEBFULLNAME='Robin Dunn'
they are built.
If you are building packages that you intend to be installable on
-machines other than your own, then I recoomend that you either have a
-separte machine with a minimal OS install, or set up a chroot
+machines other than your own, then I recommend that you either have a
+separate machine with a minimal OS install, or set up a chroot
environment and do the builds there. The reason for this is to
-minimize unexepcted extra dependencies that the built packages will
+minimize unexpected extra dependencies that the built packages will
have because of extra things you have installed on your desktop
system, for example OpenGL libs installed by your video card drivers.
Using a chroot will also allow you to build packages for different
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot
-In addition to the base system pacakges, you'll need to install in
-the chroot environment any pacakges needed for bulding wxWidgets
+In addition to the base system packages, you'll need to install in
+the chroot environment any packages needed for building wxWidgets
(compilers, make, autoconf, gtk and image libs, lib-dev's, python,
python-dev, etc.) as well as the packages listed in the next section.
Build Packages
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-There are a number of helper pacakges that are used when building
+There are a number of helper packages that are used when building
debian packages. Here are some that I have in my chroot, there may be
some others that I am not seeing at the moment:
desktop environment would be okay.) The first step is to chdir to
the top level of this source tree.
-If you havn't already you'll want to edit debian/changelog to make an
+If you haven't already you'll want to edit debian/changelog to make an
entry for the current build. If the version number is changing since
the last build then you'll need a whole new section. If you are just
updating something in the same version then you can just get by with
Our debian/control file is generated from debian/control.in, so you
can force it to be created now by running the following. You may want
-to do this to verify its contents before proceding with the build.
+to do this to verify its contents before proceeding with the build.
./debian/rules debian/control
To also make a set of test binaries you can do this:
- fakeroot ./debian/rules binaries
+ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
To clean up from prior builds you can do this:
fakeroot ./debian/rules clean
-And to automate the entire process (build, binaries, source pacakges,
+And to automate the entire process (build, binaries, source packages,
digital signing, etc.) you can do this:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
parent dir of the source tree.
+Automating the process
+----------------------
+
+The script debian/build_all automates the above stepds and builds both
+wxWidgets and wxPython packages in both ANSI and Unicode modes. You should do
+the build manually at least the first time however to make sure you have all
+the prerequisites and the build doesn't fail.
+
Other Sources of Information
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projects / wxWidgets.git / blobdiff