Re: Antw: [Dev-C++] DevCpp, Cygwin and DevPacks of GUI Toolkits

[Elizabeth B. <sog...@ya...>]

"Frank Wagner" <F.W...@wi...> writes:

> I can't believe that there is noone who can tell me how to create a
> DevPac.

Hi,

A DevPac is a bzipped2 tar file with the addition of a "Manifest" file
in the root (of the archive) directory entitiled
"PackageName.DevPackage".

This file is very important and is an .ini file.

[Setup]
Version=1
AppName=LibXML
AppVersion=2.4.22
AppVerName=LibXML 2.4.22
MenuName=LibXML
Description=An XML parsing library.
Url=http://www.libxml.org/
Readme=Readme.txt
License=License.txt
Dependencies=i18n

[Icons]
Website=http://www.libxml.org/
Introduction=http://www.xmlsoft.org/intro.html
Documentation=http://www.xmlsoft.org/docs.html
FAQ=http://www.xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html

[Files]
include=<app>\include\
lib=<app>\lib\

Note that during the install, the include and lib files are copied
over and, for the above DevPack, the first directory layer looks like
this:

libxml-dev-2.4.22/:
LibXML.DevPackage  License.txt	Readme.txt  include/  lib/

So, after you make the directory structure, you can tar it up and then
run it through bzip2. Call it something with a DevPak extension.

tar cf - libxml-dev-2.4.22/ | bzip2 -c > libxml-dev-2.4.22.DevPak

Elizabeth