I'm porting 7-zip 21.06 to homebrew (https://brew.sh) recently since 21.06 is the first stable release that supports building on linux/macOS. It would be nice to have something like make install mechanism, so that the package manager don't have to cherry pick the building product (say, b/g/7zz) by hardcode the path in build script (refer to here).
Looking forward to your feedback, Thanks!
Sincerely,
icpz
Last edit: icpz 2021-11-30
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I'm not an expert of linux/posix systems and makefiles.
So I just created simplest makefile for compiling according my knowledges of this gnu things.
There are many compilers, systems and CPU architectures. So it doesn't look simple for me to support all these differences with best way.
Some scripting probably can solve all these things, but I'm not good for such scripts. So I tried to get minimal supporting for main systems and compilers, and it still requires big number of sh files and makefiles now to compile several executables for linux. I don't like that complexity.
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Thanks for the quick reply! I certainly understand your difficulty. Hope guys in the community who are good at GNU things could make a patch for this :-)
We appreciate your time!
Sincerely,
icpz
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Hi 7-zip community:
Thanks for the amazing software!
I'm porting 7-zip 21.06 to homebrew (https://brew.sh) recently since 21.06 is the first stable release that supports building on linux/macOS. It would be nice to have something like
make installmechanism, so that the package manager don't have to cherry pick the building product (say, b/g/7zz) by hardcode the path in build script (refer to here).Looking forward to your feedback, Thanks!
Sincerely,
icpz
Last edit: icpz 2021-11-30
I'm not an expert of linux/posix systems and makefiles.
So I just created simplest makefile for compiling according my knowledges of this gnu things.
There are many compilers, systems and CPU architectures. So it doesn't look simple for me to support all these differences with best way.
Some scripting probably can solve all these things, but I'm not good for such scripts. So I tried to get minimal supporting for main systems and compilers, and it still requires big number of sh files and makefiles now to compile several executables for linux. I don't like that complexity.
Hi Igor,
Thanks for the quick reply! I certainly understand your difficulty. Hope guys in the community who are good at GNU things could make a patch for this :-)
We appreciate your time!
Sincerely,
icpz
"gnu things"... I like you Pavlov :-)
Well, there's a readme.txt file explaining how to compile on Unix systems.