[ExM Users] mkstatic questions

[Ketan Maheshwari]

Thanks. One more question:

I am not sure where should I provide the application source file in the
manifest files?

Thanks,
Ketan


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Tim Armstrong <tim.g.armstrong at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ketan Maheshwari <ketan at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>>  Trying to get the Rosetta application static build for Turbine using
>> mkstatic.tcl.
>>
>>  I am a bit confused about the entries in the manifest file:
>>
>>  1. The purpose of lib_script option is not very clear to me. What
>> scripts are supposed to go in there? The template lists user_stuff1.tcl,
>> user_stuff2.tcl.
>>
>>   Any Tcl scripts that you want to run when the library loads.  E.g. if
> you set pkg_name=the_pkg and lib_script=the_pkg.tcl, then pkg.tcl will be
> included in the executable.  It's run when the Tcl user script does a
> "package require the_pkg".
>
>
>>  2. The lib_include entry: does it accept both include dirs and header
>> files?
>>
> It has to be a header file - it will just add a #include at the top of the
> C main file.  You have to provide any include directory flags to the C
> compiler later when you compile it.
>
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>>
>>  3. From the documentation
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/exm/local/guides/swift.html#mkstatic, I see that
>> there are options at commandline such as --include-lib and
>> --include-system-lib. Are these in lieu of the ones in the manifest?
>>
> These let you link in entire library directories.
>
> --include-system-lib is for the Tcl standard library directory that is
> always loaded on startup - it links the files into the executable so that
> it doesn't need to load them off disk.  It's mainly for performance, but it
> can help build entirely self-contained executables.
>
>  --include-lib  lets you link in an external library, e.g. a directory of
> Tcl files, or a directory with a pkgIndex.tcl file.  These are set up to to
> be loaded on demand with "package require".  --include-lib <dir> is
> essentially an alternative to setting TURBINE_USER_LIB=<dir>.
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>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Ketan
>>
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