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fiddlinmacx

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Registered: 2011-03-02

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West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

I'd like to try to build a PKGBUILD for West Point Bridge Designer 2013. Has anyone got this working in Linux? Without WINE?
It's a Java app that they distribute from sourceforge as a Windows exe or a Mac disk image. The source files are there, but they include a full JRE which I don't want ;-)
I'm going to mess around with it, but I'd appreciate any pointers or suggestions. I'd like to get it running as a Java app instead of just using WINE though (if that's possible).

Thanks

fiddlinmacx

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

The Sourceforge page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wpbdc/ if anyone's interested.

HalosGhost

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

Well, as you mentioned, there is a git repo of the source, so it may be possible for you to build it and run it without WINE. Why not try your hand at making a PKGBUILD, and when you get stuck we can all offer suggestions to fix it up.

All the best,

-HG

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swanson

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

I'd start by building it manually and if that works, then try it again from a PKGBUILD.

fiddlinmacx

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

Is it possible to only clone a part of the git repo? I don't want the jre along with everything else.

HalosGhost

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

I don't think so. But you don't have to keep that source after you build it.

All the best,

-HG

P.S., If they kept the jre and nojre versions in separate branches, then yes, you could do this, but it's all in one, it seems.

Last edited by HalosGhost (2013-05-31 14:31:01)

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anteiku

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

I know this is old, but any success with the PKGBUILD?

jasonwryan

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Re: West Point Bridge Designer 2013 PKGBUILD help

If you knew it was old, you shouldn't have necrobumped it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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