Anyone good at packaging a library?

[Alexander Schmehl]

Hi!

I was about to package squirrel lang (ITP#344496), needed for the
upcoming release of ppracer (and probaly other packages, too).

But I run into a big problem:

squirrel contains not only an interpreter, but some libraries for
including squirrel scripts in C (that's e.g. used for ppracer's level
files, while the rest of the game is written in C).

Upstream (who seems to be mainly a windows programmer?) makefiles only
provide the possibility to create stuff for static libraries, not
dynamic ones (which are mandatory for debian).

I learned howto comile them myself, but of course I can't choose proper
filenames and sonames myself, but without deeper knowledge of the source
that's a bad idea ;)

So the proper way for that would be to create a proper patch for
upstreams build system, and explain him the problematics about the
soname and all that, so he hopefully will take care of that.

And there I would kindly ask for the help of anyone who knows something
about libraries:  Doing that the proper way is beyond my knowledge
(allthoug I could propaly "hack" something together that works).

Could you help me with that, please?


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander


PS:  Other problem of the package would be the documentation.  It's
provided as Windows CHM-File, and AFAIK there is no free editor for that
(only viewers).  So the documentation would need to stay in contrib,
even if upstreams supplies usable pdf documentation - damn.

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