Opened 3 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#299 closed defect (fixed)
Building application with Application Packager fails under Linux
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | default | Keywords: | linux |
| Cc: | Also affects CVS HEAD (eXept version): | no |
Description
Hello,
I'm trying to build a standalone executable of an hello world app.
As is described here.
I downloaded this 64bit build (branch 8.0.99 build 805) for linux and extracted the files. The system I use is Arch Linux with kernel 5.2.13.
To start Smalltalk/X is just used the shell script in the bin directory.
When I try to build the application with the packager it fails with the following error:
Cannot figure out my top directory (where stx/include and stx/rules are)
Nowhere in the downloaded files can i find "rules" nor am i unsure what "include" should contain. Even if i try to add a package repository that contains these files (such that they are present in "Smalltalk packagePath") the build process still fails because it can't find the file "stmkmf" in the "stx/rules" directory.
I found the stmkmf in the source here on trac and also here.
It looks like to me that there's a lot missing in order to actually build a native executable. And unfortunately there's no documentation whatsoever about his, besides the one that says it can be done easily in 5 minutes without any configuration or installation of extra build tools.
How to actually do this?
Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
wottis
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Hello,
using an application packages is not supported by Smalltalk/X jv-branch. The reason is that while it looks nice for demos, it is fairly useless in practice (i.e, for anything but when giving a demo).
I do not know anyone using it for real. Even at eXept they're not using it for their own products (they were not 5 years ago for sure).
That'd be nice, but it is not true. You need a C toolchain and make at the very least.
The process in Smalltalk/X jv-branch is (seemingly) more complicated than "5 minutes", but OTOH it can be and it is used in practice.
First, you need to compile Smalltalk/X from sources, this is documented here:
Building Smalltalk/X jv-branch from sources
How to develop and build an application is described here:
Developing and Deploying an Application in Smalltalk/X
If something does not work, let us know, it's a bug.