Re: Libglade application distribution how-to?

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

On 11/27/06, Fabricio Rocha <rocha_fabricio yahoo com br> wrote:
> Dearest ones,
>
>        I have a working set of .C and .H source files for my
> application, a bunch of Glade files and their icons in a subdirectory
> called "pixmaps", and I can get all this stuff compiled and functional
> through Anjuta. Ok.
>
>        But could you please point out a good tutorial of how to put all
> this stuff in a source tarball, so the application can be downloaded and
> tested by other people? I could not find anything like that with Google.

Anjuta generates tarball files for your sources. A good one, without
complications. Go to Build -> build tarball.

> I am sure I am NOT doing it right:
>
>         - There is all that EXTREMELY complicated stuff of autoconf,
> automake, makefiles, etc., first of all. Can I presume that just putting
> my Anjuta-generated Makefiles along with the sources in the tarball will
> work? Or what exactly must be done?

No.

>         - Although Glade can see and draw the pixmaps in "./pixmaps"
> when I edit the interface files, I found out (after a project directory
> change) that the pixmaps are not found in runtime. Maybe this is the
> reason I get those "Failed to read a valid object file image from
> memory" when running the app from GDB. How can one force libglade to
> find these pixmaps?

If you just use the tarball generated by Anjuta, the paths will be
properly configured (for example if you use the ./configure
--prefix=/mydirectory/myapplication)

>        - I have been using the "config.h" macro PACKAGE_SRC_DIR in the
> sources for loading the Glade files, but what will happen if someone
> wants to build a, for example, Debian binary package with the software?
> I suppose there will be no "source directory" in this case, so what
> would be the correct way of coding this libglade stuff?
>
>
> Thank you all and best regards!
>
> Fabricio Rocha
> Brasilia, Brasil
> The RADiola Project - http://radiola.sourceforge.net
>
>
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