There's a package called guile-hall It creates a guile project instrumented with the autotools and it sort of manages it for you
If your project contains c code guile-hall won't work and you'll need to edit your autotools files by hand A project packaged with the autotools can be built on, say, Ubuntu relatively easily And in Guix of course Hope this helps I can't figure why people here don't bring up the resources of the guile world Welcoming people is important in order to grow a project Il dom 12 mag 2019, 17:00 HiPhish <hiph...@posteo.de> ha scritto: > Hello Schemers, > > A while ago I presented my MessagePack implementation for Guile[1] here > and I > want to make it available to users. Guile has no dedicated package > manager, so > it's either manual or Guix, and I would like to support both. What it the > best > way of doing it? > > So far I have a repository that can be used right away with Guile by > adding > its path to the load path. This is handy for testing and working where I > just > just invoke Guile as `guile -L .`. For more permanent installation I have > a > makefile, it "builds" everything into `./build` (i.e. inside the repo) and > from > there the user could copy-paste the files into the desired directory. > > I was thinking of adding an "install" target to the makefile which would > copy > the directory structure of `./build` to the directory given by `$PREFIX`. > The > user could then type > > make lib doc && make PREFIX=/usr/local install > > to get everything installed globally. A package manager like Guix could > just > specify a different `PREFIX`. > > Is this reasonable? And where exactly should the Guile code be placed? I > have > > $(PREFIX)/share/guile/site/$(guile_ver)/msgpack > > as the directory for now. The value of `$guile_ver` is determined > automatically at build time: > > guile_ver = $(shell $(GUILE) -c '(display (effective-version))') > > This would only make the module available for Guile 2.2, no other version. > Is > there a better directory? > > I guess I could use GNU Autotools instead of a manually written makefile, > but I > would rather stick to what I know and is simple for such a simple project. > > [1] https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/guile-msgpack > > > >
