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

How to make a GNU package?

• find a name for the package

• structure the package directory:

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

• populate the src/ directory with your code, e.g. hello.cpp

• 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

• write some documentation

• share your code, for instance on GitHub (see my tips)