Template to bootstrap configure/automake projects for C++, libtool, Qt, NodeJS, PHP, Shell-Scripts, etc. Extends autotools, by building packages for Debian and RPM, specifying generic library dependencies, creating desktop applications with icons, etc. https://mrw.sh/development/bootstrap-build-environment

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README.md

Simplify Your Project Build Environment

Automake and Autoconf based build environment that especially supports and preconfigures:

C++, including:
- QT (without qmake, just using the AutoTools)
- LibTool
- Library dependencies
- CPP-Unit
- PKG-Config dependency file
Doxygen for documentation
Scripts
HTML / Web projects
Examples
Tests
Debian packaging
RPM packaging
Mac OSX App Bundle creation
Subversion
SQL to Doxygen schema documentation
Build in Docker
Resolve package dependencies
...

Makefiles and other files are generated automatically, necessary build and dependency rules are automatically added. There are no redundancies. This reduces extremely the size of your configuration. The whole build system becomes extremely simple, lean and smart.

Simply setup a new project:

create a subversion basic tree
checkout subversion repository
cd into the new project subversion working copy
call with full path: /path/to/bootstrap.sh
if trunk has been created, cd to trunk
follow the instructions, i.e. edit configure.ac
run again: /path/to/bootstrap.sh
add some generated files: svn add COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL
check files, i.e. all makefile.am, set Section in debian/control.in
your project is setup and compilable, test: ./bootstrap.sh -b

For more details, see:

./bootstrap.sh -h

Example:

There is a just created empty subversion repository:

https://dev.marc.waeckerlin.org/svn/project-name

Setup a basic project:

svn co https://dev.marc.waeckerlin.org/svn/project-name
cd project-name
../bootstrap-build-environment/scripts/bootstrap.sh
cd trunk

The file AUTHORS is already correct due to my gnupg setup:

Firstname Lastname (https://my.homepage.xyz) <me@mysite.xyz>

Edit the file README, I add the following lines:

First line is the headline, the short description, e.g. in the packages

The following lines describe your project...
They also appear in the package description

Edit configure.ac, since I want to publish scripts, generate doxygen, debian and rpm packages, I enable the following lines:

AX_USE_SCRIPTS
AX_USE_DOXYGEN
AX_USE_DEBIAN_PACKAGING
AX_USE_RPM_PACKAGING

Also I check "Section" in debian/control.in and set it do development.

Then I continue, I rerun bootstrap.sh, this time with option -b which calls make distcheck at the end:

../../bootstrap-build-environment/scripts/bootstrap.sh -b

Add some additional files:

svn add trunk/{COPYING,INSTALL,ChangeLog}

Everything is fine, so checkin the changes and cleanup the system:

cd ..
svn ci -m "initial project creation"
cd ..
rm -rf project-name
svn co https://dev.marc.waeckerlin.org/svn/project-name/trunk project-name