[Fluxus] static builds

[Glauber Alex Dias Prado]

Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 19:03 +0200, gabor papp wrote:
>> hi Dave,
>> 
>> > I've added some flags to the build to allow fluxus to be built with
>> > the binary modules embedded. This is mainly to help out with
>> > packaging
>> great! thanks.
Second that great!
>> 
>> i'm looking at the modifications checking the similarities with
>> the osx application, and noticed that you included only a few modules.
>> don't we require scheme/pretty, scheme/class, and frtime also? i would
>> also include ffi, so the users could use scheme bindings for binary
>> dynamic libraries.
>
> Simply because I was trying to find out the bare minimum (and get rid of
> some dependencies - eg srfi replaced by a one line function) Feel free
> to add these...
>
> Heres a static everything binary, I've just tested it on a clean install
> of ubuntu hardy, and it 'just works' without installing anything:
> http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-0.16-hardy-bin.tar.gz

So cool, it even worked on a netbook here with a geode video :)(of
course far from fast cause of hardware but it works and just out of
the box), I feel the sorry for those newcomers not having to compile
fluxus themselves :).

>
> This feels a bit dirty on linux though, and I've been looking at debian
> packages as well today, looking at Artem's files in the launchpad bzr
> repo. Is there any reason we shouldn't have these files (the debian
> subfolder, and the equivalent on other distros) in git?
>
No reason i think.


> Ubuntu wise, it looks like jaunty and karmic include plt 4.1.3 at the
> moment, so we might not need to worry so much about static linking
> against mzscheme - but it is nice to be able to have control over the
> version we use.
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
cheers,

glauber