Re: [Libusb-devel] Windows binary snapshots file organization

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Peter Stuge <pe...@st...> wrote:
> Personally I think this thread is about us learning what seems like a
> good way to organize files that will be installed by an installer.
>

Say if the installer will install the binary snapshots to the
C:\Program Files\libusb-1.0; then I think a way to do this
is like the following. The installer also can drop the x64
binary if the system is 32bit Windows. For 64bit Windows,
it is good to have both sets.

Also I am omitting the files like Authors.txt, Copying.txt,
readme.txt, changelog.txt, etc. They probably should
reside in the root directory.

Here I am treating lsusb.exe and xusb.exe
as having "higher status" since they are good for debugging
purpose.

bin
     x86
         libusb-1.0.dll
         lsusb.exe
         xusb.exe
     x64
         libusb-1.0.dll
         lsusb.exe
         xusb.exe
lib
    MinGW32
         static
               libusb-1.0.a
         import
               libusb-1.0.dll.a
    MinGW64
         static
               libusb-1.0.a
         import
               libusb-1.0.dll.a
    MSVC32
         static
               libusb-1.0.lib
         import
               libusb-1.0.lib
    MinGW64
         static
               libusb-1.0.lib
         import
               libusb-1.0.lib
include
    libusb.h
Example
    lsusb.c
    xusb.c
    dpfp.c

If we treat lsusb.exe and xusb.exe as not having that higher
status, then the following organization might be good.

dll
     x86
         libusb-1.0.dll
     x64
         libusb-1.0.dll
lib
    MinGW32
         static
               libusb-1.0.a
         import
               libusb-1.0.dll.a
    MinGW64
         static
               libusb-1.0.a
         import
               libusb-1.0.dll.a
    MSVC32
         static
               libusb-1.0.lib
         import
               libusb-1.0.lib
    MinGW64
         static
               libusb-1.0.lib
         import
               libusb-1.0.lib
include
    libusb.h
Example
    lsusb.c
    xusb.c
    dpfp.c
     binary
         x86
              lsusb.exe
              xusb.exe
              dpfp.exe
         x64
              lsusb.exe
              xusb.exe
              dpfp.exe


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