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The GAR Installer is an automated build system for software in general. Its goal is to ease the downloading, configuration and | The GAR Installer is an automated build system for software in general. Its goal is to ease the downloading, configuration and | ||
| − | installation process. Here you can find an adapted version, | + | installation process. Here you can find an adapted version, which will install the icub software and its dependencies. |
This build system has been tested on several ubuntu | This build system has been tested on several ubuntu | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 23 July 2009
Automatic building of iCub Software
The GAR Installer is an automated build system for software in general. Its goal is to ease the downloading, configuration and installation process. Here you can find an adapted version, which will install the icub software and its dependencies.
This build system has been tested on several ubuntu releases. Windows and OS X is currently not supported. It is based on GAR. You can find more information about GAR here:
http://www.lnx-bbc.com/garticle.html
An automated build system has the following advantages:
- typically saves a lot of time
- configure options are communicated / documented
- it is easy to install a new release of the software
- freezing of demos is easily possible
- small customizations and patches can be included, e.g. in order to patch 3rd party software.
Installation
In order to get the GAR installer and build the iCub software the following simple steps are required:
CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d anonymous@cvs.robotcub.org:/cvsroot/robotcub co packaging cd packaging/gar-installer/systems/icub make install
The build system will ask you for the installation prefix, where e.g. the binaries will be installed in $prefix/bin
