Document new build system

[mwallnoefer]

We need to document the new build system (mvn) on https://www.jolie-lang.org/downloads.html (Compile From Sources).

Who volunteers to write some lines to help me and others to understand it?

[fmontesi]

Linux

Compile

git clone https://github.com/jolie/jolie.git
cd jolie
mvn install

This prepares a Jolie installation inside of directory dist.

Set up Jolie for the local user

Now one can use scripts/dev-setup.sh ~/bin to set up a working installation of Jolie for the local user (assuming ~/bin is in $PATH). This will create launch scripts in ~/bin and put all Jolie libraries in ~/bin/jolie-dist.

Create a global installer

After compilation, one can (I'm assuming the user is still in the jolie directory, hence the initial cd ..):

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/jolie/release_tools
cd release_tools/jolie_installer
mvn install
cd ..
jolie release.ol ../jolie

Now you have an installer in release/jolie_installer.jar, which you can launch by using java -jar jolie_installer.jar.

The problem with this is that it requires having a working Jolie installation to perform the last step. :-
Maybe we should simply improve scripts/dev-setup.sh to take an optional second parameter for the libraries, such that one could launch sudo scripts/dev-setup.sh /usr/bin /usr/lib or something like that. What do you think?

[fmontesi]

Hi all @jolie/developers . Any news on this? Can somebody update the page? See my description above where I put some instructions.

[thesave]

Hi,

I took a shot at it. I replaced the old guidelines based on Ant with what Fabrizio wrote above (leaving out the part on the installer).
I modified also the part on Windows, but I need someone with experience with that OS to check it. @bmaschio can you please have a look under the "Compile from Sources" tab at [1] and check that the procedure for Windows there is correct?
Also, please, let me know if there are further instructions for Windows users (like the script mentioned by Fabrizio) to have Jolie installed in their Windows system.

[1] https://www.jolie-lang.org/downloads.html

[fmontesi]

Great, thx @thesave :)

@bmaschio and @mmontesi, any suggestions for improving the Windows instructions? Feel free to propose page edits.