X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/00fd036c18e0fbc369e6855cf48c5bc942459563..f3d261e7ac1951a136459f569f850ecf5f590a45:/docs/tech/tn0013.txt diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0013.txt b/docs/tech/tn0013.txt index 7eca5935ac..4e4dc23290 100644 --- a/docs/tech/tn0013.txt +++ b/docs/tech/tn0013.txt @@ -8,26 +8,21 @@ This note explains what should be done, step by step, to prepare the packages for a wxGTK distribution. Note that the same instructions should be used for the other Unix-based ports including wxMotif, wxX11 and wxBase. +See distrib/msw/makerpm for a script that embodies some of the steps +below. + 1. Preparing the sources ------------------------ a) Do a fresh checkout using the command - cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.wxwindows.org:/home/wxcvs co wxGTK - - NB: if you realize later that some needed files were not checked out - by this command, please modify CVSROOT/modules to include the missing - files so that it works for the next release! + svn checkout http://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk wxWidgets - You also need the samples, demos and contrib directories, so change to - wxWindows directory created by the first cvs command and do "cvs up -d" - for each of them. - -b) Create a build directory under wxWindows, e.g. I use "gtk-release", +b) Create a build directory under wxWidgets, e.g. I use "gtk-release", "cd" to it and run configure: the options don't really matter, you can use something like - ../configure --no-recursion + ../configure -C --without-subdirs to make it run a bit faster. @@ -80,7 +75,7 @@ a) Setting up the RPM tree: you should have the RPM tree set up properly dist"). b) Start RPM build by going to RPM_ROOT directory and typing "rpm -ba - SPECS/wxGTK.spec". It may be a good idea to append "2&>1 | tee wxGTK.out" + SPECS/wxGTK.spec". It may be a good idea to append "2>&1 | tee wxGTK.out" (or "|& tee" if you're using the one true shell ;-) as it might be not easy to detect errors in the verbose rpm output if anything goes wrong. @@ -88,14 +83,12 @@ b) Start RPM build by going to RPM_ROOT directory and typing "rpm -ba you'll have to restart from the very beginning because rpm doesn't allow to short circuit the package generation). - If everything goes well, the following files are produced: - - SRPMS/wxGTK-${version}-1.src.rpm - RPMS/i386/wxGTK-${version}-1.i386.rpm - RPMS/i386/wxGTK-devel-${version}-1.i386.rpm - RPMS/i386/wxGTK-gl-${version}-1.i386.rpm - RPMS/i386/wxGTK-static-${version}-1.i386.rpm + If everything goes well, this should produce many files in SRPMS and + RPMS/i386 subdirectories. + Use "rpm -ba --with gtk2" to build GTK+2 version of wxGTK and use + "rpm -ba --with gtk2 --with unicode" to build GTK+2 Unicode build + (these are defaults, you can use --without option to change this). Note: you may want to set the environment variable SMP to 3 or 4 on an SMP machine to speed up the build (it uses "make -j$SMP" if the @@ -108,12 +101,13 @@ c) Test the resulting RPMs: install them using "rpm -i" (or "rpm -U) as usual 3. Building the DEBs -------------------- -[Ron is doing this] +This is explained in more details in debian/README.HowToBuild.txt. + 4. Uploading the files ---------------------- -All 11 files should be uploaded (via FTP) to several locations. +All files should be uploaded (via FTP) to several locations. a) incoming.sourceforge.net, go to project admin page on sf.net and choose add/edit releases for more details @@ -123,37 +117,34 @@ b) ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub (Julian has the password) 5. Announcing the release ------------------------- -a) FreshMeat: - - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/ - - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in ++ update www.wxwidgets.org + ++ FreshMeat: + - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwidgets/ - hit "new release" at the top - follow the step by step -b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org - - [where is the announcement text? TODO] ++ wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwidgets.org -c) update www.wxwindows.org + The standard announcement text is in docs/publicity/announce.txt -d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days): - - http://www.gnome.org/applist - - Search for wxWindows - - Update the version number - - Ignore the error message ++ GnomeFiles: + - http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/wxWidgets + (only for stable releases, probably need Robert's account) -e) MacNN: ++ MacNN: - http://www.macnn.com - Contact or Contribute or something -f) MacRumors: ++ MacRumors: - http://www.macrumors.com - Contact or Contribute or something -g) Apple Developers Connection: ++ Apple Developers Connection: mailto: adcnews@apple.com -h) LinuxDevices.com: ++ LinuxDevices.com: Interesting for wxUniversal. -i) The Python mailing list: ++ The Python mailing list: