hack026.md

hack 026: Building Shoes for Linux: Building Shoes on VirtualBox

Laptop

• ThinkPad X40
• Windows XP SP3

Setup VirtualBox

• Download and install VirtualBox 3.1.6 for Windows hosts

Setup Ubunto: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

• Download PC (Intel x86) alternate install CD

• Install Ubuntu Linux 2.6 as a guest OS on VirtualBox.

Build Ruby 1.9.1

Open terminal on Ubuntu Desktop and run the following commands.

• sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
• sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
• wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p378.tar.gz
• tar xfvz ruby-1.9.1-p378.tar.gz
• cd ruby-1.9.1-p378
• ./configure --enable-shared
• make
• sudo make install

Build Shoes

Open terminal on Ubuntu Desktop and run the following commands.

• sudo apt-get install git-core libcairo2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpango1.0-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libgtk2.0-dev portaudio19-dev libsqlite3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
• git clone git://github.com/ashbb/shoes.git
• cd shoes
• rake

That's it! You can find dist/shoes. Just do the following.

• cd dist
• ./shoes

Package Shoes

• wget http://megastep.org/makeself/makeself.run
• chmod 755 makeself.run
• ./makeself.run
• sudo ln -s /home/ashbb/work/makeself-2.1.5/makeself.sh /usr/local/bin/makeself
• sudo ln -s /home/ashbb/work/makeself-2.1.5/makeself-header.sh /usr/local/bin/makeself-header.sh
• cd shoes
• rake installer

You can find pkg/shoes-0.r1416.run.

Snapshot 1

Opening window.

Snapshot 2

Manual window.

Snapshot 3

    Shoes.app do
      background hotpink..orange, angle: 90
      stack do
        para 'Hello world!'
        para "RELEASE_NAME: #{Shoes::RELEASE_NAME}"
        para "RELEASE_ID: #{Shoes::RELEASE_ID}"
        para "REVISION: #{Shoes::REVISION}"
        para "RUBY_PLATFORM: #{Shoes::RUBY_PLATFORM}"
        para "RUBY_VERSION: #{Shoes::RUBY_VERSION}"
      end
    end

Snapshot 4

The shoes_app_launcher.shy can be launched!! This is a shy file created by Policeman for Windows.

Note

• VirtualBox Download and Install (in Japanese)

• Install Ruby for Linux (in Japanese)