Re: jami client

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johnny Markiewicz" <johnny@sonicwebdev.com>
> To: "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com>
> Cc: "jami" <jami@gnu.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2023 3:32:50 AM
> Subject: Re: jami client

> Hey Maxim,
> Thank you for the quick answer, it helped a lot to move forward.
> Do you know is it possible to create a deb package from build? I want to
> run this build on another computer.

This is something routinely done by the CI packaging pipeline, and everything 
is available for review in the jami repository, more specifically under the 
extras/packaging/gnu-linux directory.  The packaging can be accomplished via 
Docker or GNU Guix; when using Guix all the external dependencies used are that 
of the currently installed Guix, which makes it very efficient but has the 
downside of requiring these to be up to date in Guix (otherwise you may have 
build failures, i.e. because the current opendht package in Guix is slightly 
older than the one in the Jami contribs.  Other packaging targets build 
everything from the daemon contrib system (bundled), which is much slower (it 
will build a full Qt distribution, including qtwebengine -- better have 32 GiB 
of RAM) but matches what most Jami developpers would test.

Example, from the root of the jami project:

```
make -f extras/packaging/gnu-linux/Makefile debian_12
```

Will leave you a bunch of .deb packages in the 
'extras/packaging/gnu-linux/packages' output directory.

```
make -f extras/packaging/gnu-linux/Makefile deb-pack-x86-64
```

Would use 'guix pack -f deb' to produce a self-contained Jami Debian package 
that includes the whole distribution (very disk-heavy but portable).  If you 
have Guix installed on your machines it'd be more efficient to simply 'guix 
install jami'.  We could setup a Guix channel to distribute the latest Jami (to 
be done, but it should be relatively straightforward by adding a directory and 
a file to the jami repository).

I hope that helps,

Maxim