Chocpkg

chocpkg is Chocolate Doom's build system which will be used for all Chocolate Doom builds from version 3 onwards.

Design

chocpkg is based on shell scripts and designed to be a modular replacement for the old Chocolate Doom build script. Chocolate Doom now depends on a number of different libraries for various functionality, and a system was needed that could build all of these dependencies.

Features include:

• Dependency tracking and recursive installation of dependencies.
• Package groups for easy installation of optional dependencies.
• Allows detection of installed system libraries and compilation of dependencies where such libraries are missing.
• Multiple ways of fetching and building packages; packages based on autotools and pkg-config are the easiest to build.
• Support for cross-compilation.

Quick example

cd chocpkg
./chocpkg install chocolate-doom

Commands

packages

List the names of all known packages.

info [package]

Display a description of the specified package, or all packages.

install <package>

Build and install the specified package, if not already installed.

reinstall <package>

Rebuild and reinstall the specified package, even if installed.

build <package>

Fetch and build the specified package, but do not install it.

fetch <package>

Download the specified package but do not build it.

External links

• chocpkg on Github.