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You must read the Cookbook first. Its a great collection of documents. This guides supplements the cookbook with some tips that you are likely to face while compiling a package for SliTaz
Tips
- Add “slitaz-dev-pkgs” package. Its a meta package to add some of the useful *-dev packages
- Compilation Errors like
- checking for \$PKG… configure: error: Couldn't find \$PKG >= 1.0.0,
- configure: error: Couldn't find FILENAME
use
tazpkg search-pkgname FILENAME Add the package with the particular file to BUILD_DEPENDS - Read receipts of other packages. The problems you face may already have a solution in one of the receipts. Some examples receipts include: * cups: to strip files other than .so in usr/lib, and to compress some driver files * ndiswrapper-driver: to cook linux modules *