4.20.5 Creating Crystal Space RPM's

Written by Vincent Knecht vknecht@club-internet.fr. Last updated 19 March 2006.

Creating Crystal Space RPM Packages

It is possible to build Crystal Space RPM's. This is useful if you want to distribute pre-built Crystal Space packages, or if you want to install Crystal Space on your machine using the normal package management facilities of your host. For this purpose, ‘CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec’ file is provided with Crystal Space.

Configure to Build RPM Packages

Building RPM packages involves a few settings, which are covered at the following page:

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo#Preliminary_tasks

Building Your Own RPM's From Source Archive

Once you've set your system to build RPM packages as a regular user, perform the following steps:

1. Get Crystal Space sources archive (see section Where to Get Crystal Space) and put it in your ‘rpm/SOURCES/’ directory.
2. Go into your ‘rpm/SPECS’ directory.
3. Extract the ‘CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec’ file, and put it in your ‘rpm/SPECS/’ directory. You can also get the latest ‘cs.spec’ file at http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/crystal/CS/trunk/scripts/rpm/cs.spec

   cd /home/user/rpm/SPECS tar xvjf /home/user/rpm/SOURCES/cs-current-snapshot.tar.bz2 \ CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec mv CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec /home/user/rpm/SPECS rm -rf CS

4. Verify the source archive filename you downloaded is set in accordance with the filename part of the URL in ‘Source:’ line of ‘cs.spec’, otherwise rpm won't be able to do his job.
5. Build the RPM's.
   • To build binary RPM's only, issue rpmbuild -bb cs.spec
   • To build source RPM's as well, issue rpmbuild -ba cs.spec

Build options are specified by using --with switch. The following values are supported:

• --with perl to build with Perl support.
• --with debug to build with debugging support.
• --with shared to build with shared libraries.

So, to build all packages, with Perl support, use:

rpmbuild -ba cs.spec --with perl

The binary RPM's should be under ‘rpm/RPMS/’, and the source RPM in ‘rpm/SRPMS/’.

The process creates four Crystal Space binary RPM packages:

• ‘crystalspace’ base package. It provides plugins, data and configuration files.
• ‘crystalspace-devel’ development package. It provides headers and static libraries needed for development.
• ‘crystalspace-demos’ demonstration package. It provides applications showing Crystal Space capabilities.
• ‘crystalspace-doc’ documentation package. It provides API and user manual documentation in HTML format.
• ‘crystalspace-utils’ utilities package. It provides executables, data (especially map files) and configuration files.

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