Add structured application links to Apps.
MkResApps is a small BASIC utility that creates a Relocatable Module to add links to files, directories and applications to the ResourceFS. The utility works from the command line, producing the required module from a source text file.
It is more flexible than the RISC& OS 3.5+ AddApp utility in that it can handle nested directories; it also pre-assembles the module so that the time to execute your !Boot sequence is minimised. MkResApps can also handle links to directories and files on your hard disc.
MkResApps consists of a collection of ARM assembler and un-tokenised BASIC, which must be assembled using the SFTools build environment. It will be necessary to have suitable Linux system with a working installation of the GCCSDK to be able to make use of this.
With a suitable build environment set up, making MkResApps is a matter of running
make
from the root folder of the project. This will build everything from source, and assemble a working MkResApps module and its associated files within the build folder. If you have access to this folder from RISC OS (either via HostFS, LanManFS, NFS, Sunfish or similar), it will be possible to run it directly once built.
To clean out all of the build files, use
make clean
To make a release version and package it into Zip files for distribution, use
make release
This will clean the project and re-build it all, then create a distribution archive (no source), source archive and RiscPkg package in the folder within which the project folder is located. By default the output of git describe is used to version the build, but a specific version can be applied by setting the VERSION variable -- for example
make release VERSION=1.23
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