User:Timothee Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2012/11/27

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touch README INSTALL NEWS AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog
mkdir src build-aux doc test #lib

use Autotools (see tutorial):
- write the files configure.ac and Makefile.am
- run the tool (repeat until there is no error anymore):

autoreconf --install
./configure #can be followed by --prefix=... or LDFLAGS=...
make
make check
make install
make distclean
make dist

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 * find a name for the package
-* make the structure of the project directory ([http://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_46.html ref])
+* structure the package directory:
   touch README INSTALL NEWS AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog
-  mkdir src doc test lib config
+  mkdir src build-aux doc test #lib
-* populate the <nowiki>src/</nowiki> directory with your code, e.g. one <nowiki>.cpp</nowiki> file
+* populate the <code>src/</code> directory with your code, e.g. <code>hello.cpp</code>
-* use Autotools ([http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html ref])
+* use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system Autotools] (see [http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html tutorial]):
+** write the files <code>configure.ac</code> and <code>Makefile.am</code>
+** run the tool (repeat until there is no error anymore):
+ autoreconf --install
+ ./configure #can be followed by --prefix=... or LDFLAGS=...
+ make
+ make check
+ make install
+ make distclean
+ make dist
+* write some documentation
+* share your code, for instance on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub GitHub] (see [http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Timothee_Flutre/Notebook/Postdoc/2012/08/14 my tips])
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