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| + | Packaging an application involves two things, getting the source itself, and making the debian/ directory and writing its contents. The debian/ directory is needed to make .deb packages, everything related to the package (i.e. .deb file) is there, with the sources outside it, the sources and the debian/ directory should be in one main directory, which is the source directory for the package. | ||
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| + | Example hierarchy (Package name is maemodeb): | ||
| + | -maemodeb-0.1 (-0.1 is the version number, it can be ignored and simply kept as maemodeb) | ||
| + | --src | ||
| + | --data | ||
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Revision as of 15:10, 13 November 2010
Packaging is the simplest, yet not exactly clearly documented well part of software development. This tutorial should hopefully cover everything you need to start making simple, working packages for Maemo.
This tutorial assumes you're running on Linux (or a virtual machine of one) and that you have Scratchbox installed as per http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo5_Final_Installation
Qt Creator users
A project made with QtCreator usually creates two (or more) folders, one contains a clean source, and the other contains an architecture specific build, for the purpose of this tutorial, we will not be using Qt Creator's package builder (as imo, it's crap compared to the manual one).
Copy the files in the clean source directory to somewhere in your scratchbox $home directory (or just copy the whole folder into ~ on scratchbox) and follow the steps below.
Scratchbox users
Packaging an application involves two things, getting the source itself, and making the debian/ directory and writing its contents. The debian/ directory is needed to make .deb packages, everything related to the package (i.e. .deb file) is there, with the sources outside it, the sources and the debian/ directory should be in one main directory, which is the source directory for the package.
Example hierarchy (Package name is maemodeb): -maemodeb-0.1 (-0.1 is the version number, it can be ignored and simply kept as maemodeb) --src --data --debian