Re: [Taler] Build process for wallets

[Marcello Stanisci]

Hi! Some corrections to the quoted message follow.

> Hi!
> 
> Based on our telco last night, I revamped our build process(es) to make
> it easier to build Taler wallets with minimal dependencies (i.e. no GNU
> libextractor, no libltdl, no libz, etc.).
> 
> So here is how to use the new system:
> 
> 1) To compile the Taler mint, proceed as before
>     (the mint does require libltdl, and we don't care about minimizing
> dependencies there so much)
> 
> 2) To compile Taler wallets, you must now:
> a) compile GNUnet with "--enable-taler-wallet" given to configure; this
> will the NOT compile 99% of GNUnet and only
>     generate a libgnunetutil_taler_wallet with about 1/3 of the code
> from libgnunetutil
> 
>     Note that this library is NOT generated at all without this option.
> Also note that you thus MUST compile GNUnet twice
>     if you want to compile both mint and wallets.
> 
> b) compile taler-mint (!) with "--enable-wallet", this will then not
> compile 95% of taler-wallet and only
here is '95% of taler-mint'
>     generate a libtalerutil_wallet that depends on
> libgnunetutil_taler_wallet
> 
> c) compile your wallet and link it against libgnunetutil_taler_wallet
AND against libtalerutil_wallet
> 
> Right now, the result still depends on libunistring (via GNUnet's
> 'strings.c'), but that could be easily removed in the future if we
> decide we don't need the respective routines.
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian

HTH
Marcello