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diff --git a/posts/2013-10-16-first-guix-package.md b/posts/2013-10-16-first-guix-package.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b5c704 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2013-10-16-first-guix-package.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +title: My First GNU Guix Patch +date: 2013-10-16 21:00 +tags: gnu, guix, scheme, guile, wsu +summary: I packaged libtheora for GNU Guix +--- + +Over the weekend, I decided to try out GNU Guix: A fully functional +package manager based on Nix and a distribution of the GNU system. I’m +a big proponent of GNU Guile, thus I was excited to see a DSL for +package management written with Guile. + +I was told that libtheora would be pretty easy to package, and it +was. Here’s what the package definition looks like: + +```scheme +(define libtheora + (package + (name "libtheora") + (version "1.1.1") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-" + version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0q8wark9ribij57dciym5vdikg2464p8q2mgqvfb78ksjh4s8vgk")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (inputs `(("libvorbis" ,libvorbis))) + ;; The .pc files refer to libogg. + (propagated-inputs `(("libogg" ,libogg))) + (synopsis "Library implementing the Theora video format") + (description + "The libtheora library implements the ogg theora video format, +a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose +compressed video format.") + (license license:bsd-3) + (home-page "http://xiph.org/theora/"))) +``` + +Pretty slick, eh? Now, I’m starting to work on packaging SDL (1.2 +and 2) and the SDL extensions (gfx, ttf, etc.), which are not quite as +easy. I hope to package all of the dependencies that guile-2d will +need to be available as a Guix package. |