Re: [simspark-devel] Delete some cmake files?

[Marian B. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi Hedayad,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah <hed...@ai...>wrote:

>  Hi Marian,
>
>  Also I have question about directory bin. Actually all this external
> libraries are copying into bin/ directory. I think this directory is primary
> for executable files. Maybe it would be better copy this files to the
> directory lib/ (etc. lib/others , lib/external or else). What do you think?
>
> Yes, that would be cleaner. But, a new directory means one more directory
> to add to path :(, or maybe we might use the lib/ directory itself... (IMHO,
> all of them has a 'dirty' part, and so they are almost identical solutions
> for me).
> What's your opinions about it?
>

It is also solution :), all dll's into one directory. If you do this for
rcssserver3d project ( \rcssserver3d\lib\rcssserver3d ---> rcssserver3d\lib\
) I think it would be good do this also for simspark (
\simspark\lib\simspark\ ---> \simspark\lib ) because of symmetry :). Problem
solved with the same number of paths.

>
>
>
>>
>> 3. Add a .bat file for executable files to set correct PATH so that they
>> can find required simspark/rcssserver3d dlls. (or maybe setting system
>> environment variables in the installer).
>>
>
> Good idea. Last year (16.9.08) I wrote email to Markus (Rollman) about to
> create a script, who copy all project files (old rcssserver3d v0.6 in CVS).
> Markus prefer *.cmd file instead of *.bat file (this associeates the script
> with cmd.exe instead of the old command.com interpreter).
>
> OK, I renamed .bat extensions to .cmd. Thanks! I didn't know about it :)
>
>  Also could we provide the external libraries as a separate downloadable
> .zip? Because creating of libs / dlls takes a lot of time.
>
> Now, we can create working binary installers for simspark and rcssserver3d
> (the only missing part is that rcssserver3d does not check to see if
> simspark is installed, which can be done by checking simspark registry key
> in the installer.). So, I'm going to release these binary packages
> officially alongside other packages. And I think most users are expected to
> use those binary packages instead of compiling from source, and therefore
> releasing external libraries separately won't be that important. (notice
> that rcssserver3d installer includes required external .dll files).
> Also, if someone wants to compile simspark and rcssserver3d on Windows
> himself, he'll need header files of those libraries too and either we should
> release those header files in addition to libraries or he should make sure
> that the libraries match the header files and use the same settings.
> So in my opinion, with the availability of windows binary installers there
> won't be much need for releasing those external libraries as a separate
> package. What do you think?
>

I didn't test PACKAGE project. My mistake. So my questions was pointless :)
.


>
>
> A bit off-topic: as of now, you should be able to install simspark and
> rcssserver3d in any location you like when using the installer in Windows.
>

Because installer create (without user choice) uninstall shortcut into Start
menu, maybe it would be great to create shortcut from script files (e.g.
rcssserver3d.cmd) to this menu.


>
> Thanks a lot,
> Hedayat
>

Thank you :).
Best Regards,
Marian Buchta