LIBC: Provide binary runtime WPI archives

[dmik]

It will be handy to have an official binary distribution of the LIBC Runtime libraries as a WPI archive. This way, it will be possible to let WarpIn maintain package dependencies for applications using LIBC and thus simplify to resolve LIBC requirements for both application vendors packaging their products and end-users installing them.

[dmik]

WarpIn scripts for LIBC

[guest]

I've created installation scripts (see the attachment above).

I've also created the WPI and the EXE archive for the current LIBC runtime (0.6.1). They are currently in ​ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming, but should later apparently move to ​ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc, where the ZIP archive lives.

[dmik]

Releasing a new LIBC version is rather easy. All one have to do is to:

1. Gather all libc*.dll and gcc*.dll files to a directory and specify this directory in the PACKAGE variable in the create_package.cmd script. Note that COPYING.LIB isn't necessary since it is contained in the WarpIn script and will be always displayed to the user during installation.

2. Edit the <TITLE> tag and the PACKAGEID and TITLE attributes of the <PCK> tags in the libc.wis script, as well as the textual value of the <PCK> tag.

Note that the PACKAGEID value is the most important one. Its format is

<vendor>\<application>\<package>\<v_maj>\<v_min>\<v_rev>\<v_build>

<vendor> and <application> are unlikely to be changed. <package> needs to be changed with every next binary incompatible release. Not changing it will allow users to update the LIBC installation instead of installing a concurrent version separately, which is good for hot fix releases and such.

<v_maj>\<v_min>\<v_rev>\<v_build> is just a version number that fits the LIBC version just policy "out of the box" I think.

[dmik]

Oops, there is no .wis script in the attached archive, strange. Ok, attaching it separately.

[dmik]

.wis script for kLIBC

[dmik]

Uploaded WPI installers for kLIBC version 0.6.2 CSD2 to ​ftp://ftp.netlabs/incoming/gcc. To be moved to ​ftp://ftp.netlabs/pub/gcc later I guess.

[dmik]

WPI scripts for kLIBC 0.6.2 CSD2

[Yuri Dario]

I just uploaded new packages for 0.6.3 dlls to incoming/gcc-csd3/

Here are the command line commmands used to generate packages:

runwic libc-0_6_3-csd3.exe -s libc.wis -a 1 *.dll -U
runwic libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi -s libc.wis -a 1 *.dll

runwic.cmd is included with warpin distribution.

[dmik]

I don't think that this ticket is relevant any more. We dropped support for WPI in favor of RPM. Those who still want ZIP will get it from the LIBC distributor (i.e. Knut).