Make it easier to build

[ivantodorovich]

I cleaned up a bit compilation tasks.

• Merged both 'inject-player' and 'inject-index' into 'inject-html'.
• Added a 'compile' task

Added tasks to help install & build

• build handles ffmpeglib
• run launches the app

Also updates README to reflect this changes.

Also added nodewebkit as a dependency in package.json.
It is a dependency after all.

Please test the build and run scripts on different platforms. I tested it on Windows and it works just fine.

[ivantodorovich]

#35 (comment)

[sharkiller]

@ivantodorovich the nodewebkit binary name in mac is node-webkit, not nw

[ivantodorovich]

Fixed. I think it's perfect now.

Install

npm install handles everything. It even copies the correct ffmpeglib to nodewebkit's folder, and rebuilds css and html injection (just in case).

Run

npm start

Simple.

[sharkiller]

is this right? sorry cant test

[ivantodorovich]

It should be. Does not work for you?

[sharkiller]

npm install no jode con el que instala las dependencias? porque no lo cambias a npm build? o cada vez que se escriba npm install para compilar va a bajar las dependencias de nuevo?
No uso mucho npm asi que ni idea

[ivantodorovich]

Cada vez que se ejecuta npm install, además de instalar las dependencias y hacer lo que siempre hace, va a hacer correr gulp build. Funciona como un hook al comando install, no lo reemplaza.
Probalo y después me contás :)

[ivantodorovich]

I'm currently working on extending this branch to implement scripts for building the standalone executable.

Currently It's only supporting win32. Will add other platforms once I get this polished.

@Cuevana how did you set the executable's icon on the build?

[Foxito]

@ivantodorovich I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but to pack all in an executable i found this, https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package-and-distribute-your-apps at the bottom it says that you can use "Enigma Virtual Box"

By the way, i'm having troubles to understand how to pack the app, i would like to do some custom modifications to it, and i think you may know how to do what i need, it's my whatsapp if you have a minute to discuss this: (3942 546 59 083+) Al verez, o sea, empezá por el + y terminas en 93. Te hago una consulta y si te parece posible vemos como arreglamos. Saludos.

[ivantodorovich]

@Foxito Thanks, that's what I'm doing right now and I successfully pack the executable. But it doesn't say anything about app icon. I'm guessing @Cuevana hacked the executable resources to accomplish that.

[ivantodorovich]

@Foxito agregame a Hangouts, o por mail. ['ivan','todorovich'].join('.')+'@gmail.com'

[Foxito]

@ivantodorovich here is a good tutorial about how to hack the .exe to change the icon:

http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Icon-for-an-Exe-File

PS: ya te mande mail.

[Cuevana]

Great work @ivantodorovich. We used https://github.com/geo8bit/nodebob for Windows build, maybe we can add it to the build process.

[ghost]

I made binaries for Linux 32-bit copying and modifying lines of code (changing "win32" with "ia32/linux32" and removing ".exe"). Is it possible to build for all platforms, or build for a particular platform, using the same code to avoid redundant and repetitive lines?

[cesasol]

Not really. I will made the script for both, linux 32 and 64 bits. Maybe ill made a pull request this wendsday.

This script, will include a desktop and icons files acording the freedesktop specification.

[ivantodorovich]

At the time I made this PR this project didn't work: https://github.com/mllrsohn/node-webkit-builder

But now it does. We should add it as a devDependencies and use it in our build process. It can even build for multiple target platforms, something that will never work using the script I made (only for user platform).

@cesasol let me know if you wanna handle it.

[cesasol]

I do, at least for GNU/Linux distributions

[ivantodorovich]

Using the node-webkit-builder the code should look the same for all platforms.

Example taken of https://github.com/mllrsohn/node-webkit-builder :

var NwBuilder = require('node-webkit-builder');
var nw = new NwBuilder({
    files: './path/to/nwfiles/**/**', // use the glob format
    plattforms: ['win','osx']
});

You still need to handle ffmpegsumo lib, which is platform specific in our case. You may need to hack the resulting build of NwBuilder, or maybe hack into its _plattforms.files internal variable to replace ffmpegsumo's path

[ghost]

@ivantodorovich check out how Flixtor build using node-webkit-builder. Even easily handles libffmpegsumo. I tried changing the directory names of the Gruntfile.js, and generated binaries work fine on Windows 8 and Linux 32 bits at least.

https://github.com/TorrentLookup/Flixtor/blob/master/Gruntfile.js

I'm sure you can adapt this to the tasks you added.

[ivantodorovich]

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