Help with packaging addons
 

Can someone help with packaging addons? I have two questions regarding ZIP files generated from the Git Control Panel:
* Is it possible to collect external libraries without having them in a repository
* How to make ZIP which will contain a project folder in the zip ready to copy/move to WoW interface folder.

This is a small addon that loads some media files for my WA in case some files are missing. The addon also requires two libraries: LibStub and LibSharedMedia. I made a current zip file manually and uploaded it to my addon website.

The process of creating a ZIP file in the Git Control Panel only adds files to the ZIP. The structure is:



Libs\Media\File1.ogg
...........File2.ogg
AddOnName.toc
embeds.xml
core.lua

What I would need is following. The process would first create a folder with the addon name and then put everything in that folder and then create the ZIP:


AddOnName\Libs\Media\File1.ogg
.....................File2.ogg
AddOnName\AddOnName.toc
AddOnName\embeds.xml
AddOnName\core.lua


Edit. I just realised I could simply copy everything to one folder but still don't know how to auto-include external libraries.

https://github.com/BigWigsMods/packager
https://www.wowinterface.com/forums/...ad.php?t=55801

Thanks for the links. I am currently trying the first one. It took me the whole morning to establish environment to run the release.sh file. I was going to ask about it but then I read windows 10 allows running Linux. It’s working now but I still need to manually upload zip files but external links work. I’ve quickly looked at the other link as well but I need another afternoon to digest it.

I don't know what you mean by "windows 10 allows running Linux". You do not need a virtual box or anything. You can simply do this using cygwin. It also includes a version of curl which is used to do the uploading automatically. Let me know if you are stuck.

In Windows 10 you can run Ubuntu Linux and I think SUSE as well as if you were booted into that system. Have a look at this link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ub...ot:overviewtab

This is included in every version of Windows 10 including Home. You just need to enable developer mode.

I am not an expert here but it seems a fully working Linux terminal, e.g. I had to run "sudo apt install zip subversion" etc. to install required applications. You have also easy access to C: D: drives. I feel it's easier solution than Cygwin.

And BTW thanks for the offer. I've never used curl so I will definitely have to read about it.

Wow, this is the first time I am hearing about this "Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)".
For the moment I am not touching my cygwin setup though. Took me long enough to get this to work ;)
But on my next PC I will give WSL a try.

WSL is nice if you want to package it manually. You can also use GitHub Actions to let them package it for you

• Nebula's example workflow
• My workflow (for Classic)

GitHub: Creating and storing encrypted secrets



You use the .pkgmeta file for including external libraries (provided you use the CurseForge or BigWigs packager)

• Bartender4: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/Barten...aster/.pkgmeta

First, thanks for the clue on .pkgmeta. I have run `release.sh` and created a package plus a zip file, which collected external libraries.

Sorry but I don't really know what I am doing with GitHub Actions, though. I read through the links but these are I believe different approaches to GitHub Actions. I made a file in .github/workflow called main.yaml which is almost the same as yours. I only changed the line

- uses: actions/checkout@v1

to

- uses: actions/checkout@master

I create a package from the master commit. I was on GitHub Actions, I saw the `main.yaml` file but nothing happens :p

Thanks

PS. I created secrets. Thanks for the link.