Hello Ricardo! At first I thought "How could I overlook that guide?", but then I realized it is the one I tried following before. This fails for my library at the `guix package --install-from-file=my-hello.scm` step and I seem to not be able to get it to work. Perhaps it is something simple.
I have the state of what I tried at (permalink) https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guix-package-manager-tutorials/src/85bd80735b44ac0bab5f1565e6c5ce1defdf7ef9/make-a-package and there is a `package.scm` file, which I try with `guix package --install-from-file='package.scm'`. Should I move this over to the Guix list? On one hand it is about a Guile library, so it would be good to have the knowledge here, but on the other hand it is mainly about what to do for packaging. In general, I would like to go the simplest and cleanest way to make a package. Perhaps I will need more at some point, if I write a program, that is not pure Guile, but I have not yet planned any such project. Perhaps for making packages for other programming languages, when those packages are not yet in Guix. Best regards, Zelphir On 1/30/21 10:15 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> For some time now I wanted to be able to make Guix package of some of my >> Guile projects or at least understand and know how to do that, write a >> guide for it and so on, to be able to do it whenever I need it and also >> to be able to contribute better to the Guile community and enable others >> to read how to create Guile packages and contribute. People would not >> have to clone any repo from me directly, but could use Guix to install >> stuff. > There is a packaging tutorial in the Guix Cookbook: > > https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging.html > >> A few weeks ago I asked in the Guile IRC channel about how to approach >> learning the required things. There people recommended me to look at >> guile-haunt as an example, because it is also a pure Guile program, >> which is packaged for Guix already. So that i what I started doing. >> >> There is a whole jungle of stuff, that I do not yet understand in depth. >> Many of those things are GNU Autotools / GNU Automake or GNU M4 >> related. […] > If all you have are Guile modules and all you want is to package it for > Guix then you really don’t need to bother with Autotools. Use the > “guile-build-system”. It can be as simple as the “guile-srfi-89” > package in (gnu packages guile-xyz). > -- repositories: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl
