TODO
author Mike Kinghan <mikek@symbian.org>
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:57:53 +0000
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A couple more small Windows compatibility fixes for romnibus.pl
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Things that need done for this package (in no particular order)
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2010-05-13, mikek@symbian.org
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1.	Test the built tools. No testing has been done whatsoever.
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2.	Build the package on platforms not listed here, and add them to the
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	list:
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		Windows XP 32bit
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		Ubuntu 9.04,10.4 32/64bit
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4.	Find all the perl scripts that are exported and ensure they run on
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	Linux.
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5.	Differentiate the exports so that .bat files are only exported by
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	Windows builds and .sh files are only exported by *nix builds
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6.	On Windows, the imgcheck target needs to link against libwsock32.a. This
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	library exist in the gcc mingw lib directory in the PDT, but because
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	the library is specified with the STATICLIBRARY keyword, the linker looks
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	for it in the epoc32\release\tools2\{deb|rel} directory and doesn't find it.
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	It is not included in the upstream package, so it cannot be exported there.
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	This bug has been worked around as one of the things done by the
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	fix_epoc32_win.pl script - it just copies libwsock32.a from the PDT to
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	the tools2 release deb|rel directories, but a real solution should be found.
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	Preferably, for all targets on Windows the gcc mingw libraries should be in
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	the linker's search path.
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7.	Add a toplevel GNU makefile to the package and scripting to support it which
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	can generate a GNU tarball containing a "normalised Linux" simplification of
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	the package. The normalised Linux spin will strip out everything from the
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	package contents and build that is only required for Windows or would
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	normally be provided by package prerequisities in a Linux setting, e.g. it
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	will not contain Windows binaries or build its own versions of make, bash,
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	cpp, python. A normalised Linux spin would be the right basis on which
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	to build .deb or .rpm packaging.
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