PBA-cbs bootstrapping of portable C++ project

Setting up a portable C++ project still is a pain in the ass, especially if it shall be portable.

When trying to automate it in some way, we came to the conclusion that a full example in a public subversion repository is a good solutions because it's easy to use for you and easy to maintain for us.

HowTo ...

These are the steps for an ultra fast bootstrapping of a portable project relying on pba-cbs and our incarnation of the MinGW cross compilation toolchain.

Preparations

You need deb sources for pba (any-pba-1.0) and distro-mingw-5 (i.e. squeeze-mingw-5 or wheezy-mingw-5), see https://deb.clazzes.org.

For starters, You need to install the packages pba-cbs and subversion.

Retrieve the sceleton

Decide for the main name of your app:

Export our example from public svn:

Rename and search'n'replace

Rename some stuff and have the inlcude files adapted:

Adapt debian information

Change my name and e-mail to yours and adapt the description:

Optional: Adapt the Windows rc template ...

If you want windows binaries, edit the resoure template:

Do not forget to change the icon, too!

Alternatively: Remove windows stuff

If you do not want windows binaries, remove it:

Now (and before any build activity) is a very good time to put your project under subversion control:

You might also want to fill svn:ignore properties of some directories:

Optional: Install required libs and build the package

To produce the debian packages, just:

To only build the linux packages or only the windows packages, add -o unix resp. -o mingw to the pba-commands.

We will soon add NSIS installers.