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<p>Yes I did. And just to be sure I din't miss anything I read it again just now. I solved the path to FPC by letting fppg regenerate the config file. BTW this is at least not very userfriendly. At least fppkg should give a proper warning and not just crash. So now the package manager works, there is nothing mentioned on how to create a package in the wiki. So I tried a few things.</p>
<p>First I tried adding a "local" mirror. However my_repo does not show up when I do a fppkg list (also update does not help here). Would be nice to understand how this works.</p>
<p> <mirror name="my_repo"><br /> <url>file:///C:/develop/repository/fpmake_test/</url><br /> <contact>darius</contact><br /> <weight>100</weight><br /> </mirror> </p>
<p>Then I did a fppkg build. This simply only does a fpc fpmake and fpmake consecutively as I can see. So also here nothing that helps me further, as fpmake does not handle package dependencies this is where it ends.</p>
<p>Next I did a fppkg archive. This did not work as I don't have fpmake.pp (hardcoded filename) files in the packages directories but fpmake.inc files. So I renamed them just to realize that the zip packages are useless as the fpmake files are not valid program files. This implies that for a project all fpmake.pp files should contain the same IFDEF setup as in the FPC source tree. It works obviously (FPC proves it) but the sources are far from readable. One just has to make a stinky mess with defines to get something that is usable for the package manager.</p>
<p>Then I thought I would just test an existing package. So I did a "fppkg install zlib". Fppkg returned a message "Package "zlib" not found.". Perhaps it would be better that it would return a message the package is already installed? The current message is just confusing and not reflecting what is going on according to fppkg list. Next I installed the webdesign package. Everything worked fine as one might expect. However the packages are all installed in the central local repository. Is there a way for a project to allways install in the source folder itself? How will fppkg work if I then want to build a tagged or branched version for my project for testing? Will it overwrite the installed packages, will I have to force rebuild of the packages? I can imagine all sorts of mayhem with different versions of packages with this kind of central repository approach. What if another project has the same package name as my project has? What is the policy of fppkg on this?</p>
<p><br />Fppkg seems to be fine for small stand alone packages as with FPC but I doubt that it is the solution for projects where you have lot's of interproject dependencies. The reason behind being forced to install the project packages into a central repository are not clear and there are reasons not to do it as described above. For standalone projects it should however be enough to setup a buildfile that groups units into packages and and define the package and application dependencies. It's how cmake works except that the pascal build process is much cleaner in design.</p>
<p>Darius </p>
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<p>Michael Van Canneyt schreef op 6 apr '14:</p>
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<pre>On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Darius Blaszyk wrote:</pre>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px">The path for the FPC executable seems to be wrong. I'm on a 64bit machine. I will have a look to see where fppkg is getting the path from.</blockquote>
<pre>Did you read:
<a href="http://wiki.freepascal.org/fppkg">http://wiki.freepascal.org/fppkg</a>
? It is a good introduction.
Michael.
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