Copyright © 1998-2006,2011 Dipl.-Inform. Kai Hofmann. All rights reserved!

Description

Lib-Install is an installer script for Amiga shared libraries that is highly modular to be reusable for other installer scripts.

Lib-Install features

• Follows the V43 Installer Style Guide
• Works with Installer NG 1.3
• Correctly supports the different user levels
• Install new/update mode
• Uninstallation
• Supports Installers prior to V43
• Highly automated
• Very flexible
• Very intelligent (for an installer-script ;-)
• Autodetects the CPU/FPU
• Autodetects the OS version
• Autodetects existing files within the distribution archive
• Installs the optimal 68010-68060 binary if available
• It supports the following languages:
  • English
  • German
• Prepared for supporting the following languages:
  • French
  • Danish
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Polish
  • Finnish
  • Greek
  • Czech
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese (European)
  • Norwegian
  • Hungarian
  • Turkish
  • Latin
  • Esperanto
  • Catalonian
  • Croatian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Supports source code installation for the following programming languages:
  • C
  • Assembler
  • Amiga-E
  • Modula II
  • Oberon
  • ARexx
• Prepared for supporting source code installation for the following programming languages:
  • C++
  • Cluster
  • Blitz Basic 2
• It can be reused by (hopefully) many other Amiga shared libraries since the authors of shared libraries need to change only a few things:
  • The #copyright variable
  • The #min_os_version and #min_os_revision variables
  • The #language variable
  • The P_CustomExists, P_CustomInstall and P_CustomUninstall procedures
  • The 'APPNAME' tooltype within the Lib-Install icon

Lib-Install Requirements

• Installer

Lib-Install archive structure

<name>Lib/<name>Lib.pi                                    (recommended)
<name>Lib/<name>Lib.readme
<name>Lib/<name>Lib.readme.info
<name>Lib/Lib-Install
<name>Lib/Lib-Install.info
<name>Lib/Install/English.info                            (optional)
<name>Lib/Install/...                                     (optional)

<name>Lib/Libs/<name>.library                             (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>000.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>010.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>020.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>020f.library                         (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>030.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>030f.library                         (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>040.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>040f.library                         (optional)
<name>Lib/Libs/<name>060.library                          (optional)
<name>Lib/Locale/Catalogs/.../<name>_lib.catalog          (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/C/Include/Libraries/<name>.h
<name>Lib/Developer/C/Include/Proto/<name>.h
<name>Lib/Developer/C/Include/CLib/<name>_protos.h
<name>Lib/Developer/C/Include/Pragmas/<name>_pragmas.h
<name>Lib/Developer/Amiga-E/Modules/<name>_pragmas.m      (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Amiga-E/Modules/Libraries/<name>.e    (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Modula/Defs/<name>D.def               (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Modula/Defs/<name>L.def               (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Oberon/Interfaces/<name>.mod          (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Assembler/Include/Libraries/<name>.i  (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Assembler/Include/lvo/<name>.i        (optional)
<name>Lib/Developer/Rexx/Include/<name>.rexx              (optional)

Download latest version (43.3)

Lib-Install.lha (35465)