How to download only one Android source code project using repo
Situation
You want to submit a small patch to an Android source project.
You don't want to download the entire 14GB Android source code.
What you did
Initialize repo.
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
remote: Counting objects: 117, done
remote: Finding sources: 100% (117/117)
remote: Total 2879 (delta 1523), reused 2879 (delta 1523)
Receiving objects: 100% (2879/2879), 2.44 MiB | 696 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1523/1523), done.
From https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
* [new branch] maint -> origin/maint
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
* [new branch] stable -> origin/stable
* [new tag] v1.0 -> v1.0
* [new tag] v1.0.1 -> v1.0.1
[...]
Get https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Server does not provide clone.bundle; ignoring.
remote: Counting objects: 110, done
remote: Finding sources: 100% (110/110)
remote: Total 1345 (delta 288), reused 1345 (delta 288)
Receiving objects: 100% (1345/1345), 1.13 MiB | 479 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (288/288), done.
From https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
[...]
* [new tag] android-sdk-support_r11 -> android-sdk-support_r11
Your Name [U-dl_muriers_em\ZWM]: Erwan Martin
Your Email [ZWM@dl_muriers_em.(none)]: public@fzwte.net
Your identity is: Erwan Martin <public@fzwte.net>
is this correct [y/N]? y
repo has been initialized in /home/ZWM
Sync the project.
repo sync platform/tools/base
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ZWM/.repo/repo/main.py", line 500, in <module>
_Main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/home/ZWM/.repo/repo/main.py", line 476, in _Main
result = repo._Run(argv) or 0
File "/home/ZWM/.repo/repo/main.py", line 155, in _Run
result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)
File "/home/ZWM/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 624, in Execute
submodules_ok=opt.fetch_submodules)
File "/home/ZWM/.repo/repo/command.py", line 184, in GetProjects
raise InvalidProjectGroupsError(arg)
error.InvalidProjectGroupsError
InvalidProjectGroupsError? Whaaaaaat!?
Why did that happen
Let's open .repo/repo/command.py and go where the command failed.
for project in projects:
if not missing_ok and not project.Exists:
raise NoSuchProjectError(arg)
if not project.MatchesGroups(groups):
raise InvalidProjectGroupsError(arg)
Apparently, a notion of group exists. Let's open the manifest and see in what group our project is.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <manifest> [...] <project path="tools/base" name="platform/tools/base" groups="notdefault,tools" /> </manifest>
notdefault? That doesn't sound good.
What you should have done
Init repo including group tools.
repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -g tools [...]
Sync the project.
repo sync platform/tools/base Fetching project platform/tools/base [...] Fetching projects: 100% (1/1), done. Checking out files: 100% (5614/5614), done.
Create and checkout your branch.
repo start your-local-branch-name platform/tools/base
Work your magic and upload your changes.
repo upload
Reference
How to build Android APKs on a FreeBSD server
Situation
Your team is creating Android apps. Your CI server is running FreeBSD and you'd like Jenkins or something else to be able to build your apps to have nice nightly builds.
You don't care about having adb and you especially don't want to install anything related to X11.
Example
In this example, we'll be building an app using gradle.
Install the build requirements
Install gradle
cd /usr/ports/devel/gradle && make install clean
Install the linux compatibility layer
kldload linux
cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10 && make install distclean
Remember, you might need to use brandelf on some parts of the SDK later if they won't execute.
Install bash and link /bin/bash to /usr/local/bin/bash.
cd /usr/ports/shells/bash && make install clean ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash
Install your favorite flavour of Java.
cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk7 && make install clean
Download and update the Android SDK
Download and extract the Android SDK for Linux.
fetch 'http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r23-linux.tgz' tar xzf android-sdk_r23-linux.tgz
Go into the tools folder and list the contents of the SDK repositories.
./android list sdk -u Refresh Sources: Fetching https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml Validate XML Parse XML Fetched Add-ons List successfully Refresh Sources Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-10.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-10.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-10.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon-6.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon-6.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addon-6.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/glass/gdk/addon.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/glass/gdk/addon.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/glass/gdk/addon.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/extras/intel/addon.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/extras/intel/addon.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/extras/intel/addon.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/sys-img.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/sys-img.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/sys-img.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/sys-img.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/sys-img.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-wear/sys-img.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-tv/sys-img.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-tv/sys-img.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android-tv/sys-img.xml Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/x86/addon-x86.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/x86/addon-x86.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/x86/addon-x86.xml Packages available for installation or update: 63 1- Android SDK Tools, revision 23.0.1 2- Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 20 3- Android SDK Build-tools, revision 20 4- Documentation for Android 'L' Preview SDK, revision 1 5- SDK Platform Android 4.4W, API 20, revision 1 6- SDK Platform Android L Preview, revision 1 7- SDK Platform Android 4.4.2, API 19, revision 3 8- SDK Platform Android 4.3, API 18, revision 2 9- SDK Platform Android 4.2.2, API 17, revision 2 10- SDK Platform Android 4.1.2, API 16, revision 4 11- SDK Platform Android 4.0.3, API 15, revision 3 12- SDK Platform Android 4.0, API 14, revision 3 13- SDK Platform Android 3.2, API 13, revision 1 14- SDK Platform Android 3.1, API 12, revision 3 15- SDK Platform Android 3.0, API 11, revision 2 16- SDK Platform Android 2.3.3, API 10, revision 2 17- SDK Platform Android 2.2, API 8, revision 3 18- SDK Platform Android 2.1, API 7, revision 3 19- SDK Platform Android 1.6, API 4, revision 3 20- SDK Platform Android 1.5, API 3, revision 4 21- Samples for SDK API 20, revision 1 22- Samples for SDK API L Preview, revision 1 23- Samples for SDK API 19, revision 5 24- Samples for SDK API 18, revision 1 25- Samples for SDK API 17, revision 1 26- Samples for SDK API 16, revision 1 27- Samples for SDK API 15, revision 2 28- Samples for SDK API 14, revision 2 29- Samples for SDK API 13, revision 1 30- Samples for SDK API 12, revision 1 31- Samples for SDK API 11, revision 1 32- Samples for SDK API 10, revision 1 33- Samples for SDK API 8, revision 1 34- Samples for SDK API 7, revision 1 35- Google APIs (x86 System Image), Android API 19, revision 5 36- Google APIs (ARM System Image), Android API 19, revision 5 37- Glass Development Kit Preview, Android API 19, revision 8 38- Google APIs, Android API 18, revision 3 39- Google APIs, Android API 17, revision 3 40- Google APIs, Android API 16, revision 3 41- Google APIs, Android API 15, revision 2 42- Google APIs, Android API 14, revision 2 43- Google APIs, Android API 13, revision 1 44- Google TV Addon, Android API 13, revision 1 45- Google APIs, Android API 12, revision 1 46- Google TV Addon, Android API 12, revision 2 47- Google APIs, Android API 11, revision 1 48- Google APIs, Android API 10, revision 2 49- Google APIs, Android API 8, revision 2 50- Google APIs, Android API 7, revision 1 51- Google APIs, Android API 4, revision 2 52- Google APIs, Android API 3, revision 3 53- Android Support Repository, revision 6 54- Android Support Library, revision 20 55- Google Play services for Froyo, revision 12 56- Google Play services, revision 17 57- Google Repository, revision 8 58- Google Play APK Expansion Library, revision 3 59- Google Play Billing Library, revision 5 60- Google Play Licensing Library, revision 2 61- Google USB Driver, revision 10 62- Google Web Driver, revision 2 63- Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer), revision 4
-u means "no gui".
Install what you need.
./android update sdk --filter 1,2,3,5,6,53,54,56 -u
[license stuff]
Installing Archives:
Preparing to install archives
Downloading Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 20
Installing Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 20
Stopping ADB server failed (code -1).
Installed Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 2099%)
Downloading Android SDK Build-tools, revision 20
Installing Android SDK Build-tools, revision 20
Installed Android SDK Build-tools, revision 2099%)
Downloading SDK Platform Android 4.4W, API 20, revision 1
Installing SDK Platform Android 4.4W, API 20, revision 1
Installed SDK Platform Android 4.4W, API 20, revision 197%)
Downloading SDK Platform Android L Preview, revision 1
Installing SDK Platform Android L Preview, revision 1
Installed SDK Platform Android L Preview, revision 197%)
Downloading Android Support Repository, revision 6
Installing Android Support Repository, revision 6
Installed Android Support Repository, revision 699%)
Downloading Android Support Library, revision 20
Installing Android Support Library, revision 20
Installed Android Support Library, revision 2093%)
Downloading Google Play services, revision 17
Installing Google Play services, revision 17
Installed Google Play services, revision 1796%)
Downloading Android SDK Tools, revision 23.0.1
Installing Android SDK Tools, revision 23.0.1
Installed Android SDK Tools, revision 23.0.199%)
Stopping ADB server failed (code -1).
Unable to run 'adb': Cannot run program "/root/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb": error=2, No such file or directory.
Starting ADB server failed (code -1).
null Done. 8 packages installed.
Build your apps!
Edit local.properties and set your SDK location. Alternatively, you can set the environment variable ANDROID_HOME.
sdk.dir=/some/where/android-sdk-linux
Start gradle and see if it complains.
gradle [some stuff] Welcome to Gradle 1.12. To run a build, run gradle <task> ... To see a list of available tasks, run gradle tasks To see a list of command-line options, run gradle --help BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 14.139 secs
If not, build!
gradle assembleRelease [many things] 14:25:54.743 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] 14:25:54.744 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] BUILD SUCCESSFUL 14:25:54.746 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] 14:25:54.748 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] Total time: 1 mins 56.878 secs
ll Truc/build/outputs/apk/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1064222 Jul 1 14:25 Truc-release-unaligned.apk -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1064495 Jul 1 14:25 Truc-release.apk
You can also use the SDK Manager Plugin for gradle, so that your SDK is updated automatically when you build your project.
Problems I met
gradle won't start
gradle FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.jni.PosixFileFunctions.symlink(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;Lnet/rubygrapefruit/platform/internal/FunctionResult;)V * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
libstdc++.so.6 is missing. Install gcc.
cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc && make install clean
Ambiguous method overloading for method java.io.File
> Ambiguous method overloading for method java.io.File#<init>.
Cannot resolve which method to invoke for [null, class java.lang.String] due to overlapping prototypes between:
[class java.lang.String, class java.lang.String]
[class java.io.File, class java.lang.String]
gradle couldn't find the SDK. Did you set sdk.dir in local.properties?
The SDK download packages for Windows instead of Linux
The SDK doesn't recognize FreeBSD, so it downloads packages for Windows. It needs to be patched.
Download the sdk source.
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base
Apply the following patch to the source:
diff -Naur A/common/src/main/java/com/android/SdkConstants.java B/common/src/main/java/com/android/SdkConstants.java
--- A/common/src/main/java/com/android/SdkConstants.java 2014-07-01 16:44:55.000000000 +0200
+++ B/common/src/main/java/com/android/SdkConstants.java 2014-07-01 19:57:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -596,6 +596,8 @@
return PLATFORM_WINDOWS;
} else if (os.startsWith("Linux")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
return PLATFORM_LINUX;
+ } else if (os.startsWith("FreeBSD")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
+ return PLATFORM_LINUX;
}
return PLATFORM_UNKNOWN;
diff -Naur A/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.java B/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.java
--- A/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.java 2014-07-01 19:57:30.000000000 +0200
+++ B/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.java 2014-07-01 19:55:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@
hostOS = HostOs.WINDOWS;
} else if (os.startsWith("Linux")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
hostOS = HostOs.LINUX;
+ } else if (os.startsWith("FreeBSD")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
+ hostOS = HostOs.LINUX;
}
BitSize jvmBits;
Rebuild the patched files.
javac sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.java -cp "sdklib/src/main/java:common/src/main/java" javac common/src/main/java/com/android/SdkConstants.java
Replace the files inside the jar.
cd sdklib/src/main/java/ && jar uf /some/where/android-sdk-linux/tools/lib/sdklib.jar com/android/sdklib/internal/repository/archives/ArchFilter.class cd common/src/main/java && jar uf /some/where/android-sdk-linux/tools/lib/common.jar com/android/SdkConstants.class
See this patch on the Android website: https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/100271/.
Profit!/code
How to run a laravel package's migrations
Problem
Let's say you fetched a laravel package using composer and whatever, and you want to run its migration files (to have it create its tables for instance).
# php artisan migrate Nothing to migrate.
Hum, laravel won't find anything to migrate.
Solution
The trick is to give artisan the path containing the migration files:
# php artisan migrate --path=vendor/vendorname/package-name/src/migrations Migrated: 2013_11_21_000001_create_something Migrated: 2013_11_21_000002_create_something_else Migrated: 2014_03_21_000003_add_stuff
How to sign POST requests with OAuth 1.0 using oauth-signpost and HttpURLConnection
Situation
Signpost's documentation states that the library cannot be used along with HttpURLConnection to sign standard POST requests. This is not entirely true.
Method setAdditionalParameters() can be used to add a few parameters to the OAuth base string. The trick is to add them already percent-encoded.
Code sample
package test_oauth;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Scanner;
import oauth.signpost.OAuth;
import oauth.signpost.OAuthConsumer;
import oauth.signpost.basic.DefaultOAuthConsumer;
import oauth.signpost.exception.OAuthCommunicationException;
import oauth.signpost.exception.OAuthExpectationFailedException;
import oauth.signpost.exception.OAuthMessageSignerException;
import oauth.signpost.http.HttpParameters;
public class TestOAuth {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, OAuthMessageSignerException, OAuthExpectationFailedException, OAuthCommunicationException {
final String endpointUrl = "http://some-api.example.org/index.php/api/v1/end/point";
//Create an HttpURLConnection and add some headers
URL url = new URL(endpointUrl);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
//Build the list of parameters
HttpParameters params = new HttpParameters();
params.put("param1", "49607,49608,49609");
params.put("param2", "1396430420");
params.put("param3", "coucou");
//Sign the request
//The key to signing the POST fields is to add them as additional parameters, but already percent-encoded; and also to add the realm header.
OAuthConsumer dealabsConsumer = new DefaultOAuthConsumer ("5314c6fbe7437", "5314c6fbe7bfd");
HttpParameters doubleEncodedParams = new HttpParameters();
Iterator<String> iter = params.keySet().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
String key = iter.next();
doubleEncodedParams.put(key, OAuth.percentEncode(params.getFirst(key)));
}
doubleEncodedParams.put("realm", endpointUrl);
dealabsConsumer.setAdditionalParameters(doubleEncodedParams);
dealabsConsumer.sign(urlConnection);
//Create the POST payload
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
iter = params.keySet().iterator();
for (int i = 0; iter.hasNext(); i++) {
String param = iter.next();
if (i > 0) {
sb.append("&");
}
sb.append(params.getAsQueryString(param, false));
}
//Send the payload to the connection
String formEncoded = sb.toString();;
OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter = null;
try {
outputStreamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(urlConnection.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
outputStreamWriter.write(formEncoded);
} finally {
if (outputStreamWriter != null) {
outputStreamWriter.close();
}
}
//Send the request and read the output
try {
System.out.println("Response: " + urlConnection.getResponseCode() + " " + urlConnection.getResponseMessage());
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
String inputStreamString = new Scanner(in,"UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A").next();
System.out.println(inputStreamString);
}
finally {
urlConnection.disconnect();
}
}
}
This code was tested on Java 7 on a PC, and on Android.
How to have cpuminer use all CPUs on FreeBSD
Situation
You're trying to mine some cryptocoins on your FreeBSD box. Unfortunately, the mining process seems to occur on only one CPU, despite cpuminer creating and binding threads.
[2014-03-23 01:41:53] 8 miner threads started, using 'X11' algorithm. [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://drkpool.com:3333 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 4 to cpu 4 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 5 to cpu 5 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 6 to cpu 6 [2014-03-23 01:41:53] Binding thread 7 to cpu 7 [2014-03-23 01:41:56] Stratum detected new block
Using ktrace yields some information. The thread-cpu binding is failing.
23429 minerd CALL write(0x2,0x7fffff5fa660,0x30)
23429 minerd GIO fd 2 wrote 48 bytes
"[2014-03-23 00:45:32] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
"
23429 minerd RET write 48/0x30
23429 minerd CALL _umtx_op(0x803019060,0x16,0,0,0)
23429 minerd RET _umtx_op 0
23429 minerd CALL cpuset_setaffinity(0x3,0x3,0xffffffffffffffff,0x10,0x7fffff5faf70)
23429 minerd RET cpuset_setaffinity -1 errno 11 Resource deadlock avoided
23429 minerd CALL nanosleep(0x7fffff5fad90,0x7fffff5fad80)
23429 minerd RET _umtx_op 0
23429 minerd CALL mmap(0,0x400000,0x3<PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE>,0x1002<MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON>,0xffffffff,0)
23429 minerd RET mmap 34431041536/0x804400000
23429 minerd CALL _umtx_op(0x803019060,0x16,0,0,0)
23429 minerd RET _umtx_op 0
Solution
Use cpuset to change the affinity of the process once it's launched.
cpuset -c -l 0-15 -p 3044
Adapt the command to your number of CPUs and the PID of your miner process.
See kern/163585 for more information.
How to connect to a MySQL/MariaDB server with PHP using the dialog plugin.
Situation
You want to authenticate your MySQL/MariaDB users using an authentication plugin (for instance: pam). This kind of auth uses the dialog plugin. You can login using the mysql command line client and using Perl's DBI, but not without PHP.
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client'
Solution
PHP now uses its own MySQL driver (mysqlnd), instead of the good old libmysqlclient.
The solution is to rebuild PHP using the right configure options.
--enable-pdo \
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config \
Reference: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/apis-php/en/apis-php-mysqli.installation.linux.html
How to use Wireshark on Windows to watch a remote UNIX system, using SSH
Situation
You're using tcpdump on a UNIX box but you would like to use Wireshark for all its awesome features (gui, analysis, etc.) on your local Windows desktop computer.
Solution
Connect to your box using SSH and pipe the output of tcpdump into wireshark.
"c:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh root@my-unix-box.example.com "tcpdump -w - -s 65535 [tcpdump condition] " | "c:\Program Files\Wireshark\wireshark.exe" -i -
plink is bundled with putty, but you can download it separatly.
How to get rid of "Warning: using insecure memory" using spamassasin on FreeBSD
Situation
You run sa-update periodically and in your logs you get some lousy:
Warning: using insecure memory!
Fix
The well known fix is to add some option into the gpg configuration file.
The key is to know where to find it:
/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/gpg.conf
no-secmem-warning
How to create a rar file with every file matching a pattern (including subdirectories) on Windows
Creating the rar file
How to create a rar file with any file matching a pattern (including subdirectories) on Windows.
forfiles /s /m wallet.dat /c "cmd /c echo @relpath" | "c:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe" a -dh -rr524288 wallets.rar @ RAR 4.20 Copyright (c) 1993-2012 Alexander Roshal 9 Jun 2012 Registered to zewaren Updating archive wallets.rar Updating .\Alphacoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\AmericanCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\AndroidsToken\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Betacoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Bitcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Colossuscoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\digitalcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\eMark\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Fastcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Feathercoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Florincoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Franko\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Gridcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\IncaKoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Litecoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Luckycoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Namecoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\NetCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\NovaCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Ocoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Phoenixcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\PPCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Primecoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Protoshares\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Redcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\RoyalCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Terracoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Worldcoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\YaCoin\wallet.dat OK Updating .\Sexcoin\wallet.dat OK Done
This example will find any file named wallet.dat and include it in the rar file. You can use wildchars in the pattern.
This will preserve the directory structure.
-dh allows you to add files that are in use by another process.
-rr524288 adds a recovery record to the archive, with the maximum number of sectors (never too cautious).
Checking the rar file
"c:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe" vb wallets.rar Alphacoin\wallet.dat AmericanCoin\wallet.dat AndroidsToken\wallet.dat Betacoin\wallet.dat Bitcoin\wallet.dat Colossuscoin\wallet.dat digitalcoin\wallet.dat eMark\wallet.dat Fastcoin\wallet.dat Feathercoin\wallet.dat Florincoin\wallet.dat Franko\wallet.dat Gridcoin\wallet.dat IncaKoin\wallet.dat Litecoin\wallet.dat Luckycoin\wallet.dat Namecoin\wallet.dat NetCoin\wallet.dat NovaCoin\wallet.dat Ocoin\wallet.dat Phoenixcoin\wallet.dat PPCoin\wallet.dat Primecoin\wallet.dat Protoshares\wallet.dat Redcoin\wallet.dat RoyalCoin\wallet.dat Terracoin\wallet.dat Worldcoin\wallet.dat YaCoin\wallet.dat Sexcoin\wallet.dat
How to change the icon, version or another resource of Windows executables built with PAR::Packer
Situation
You're using PAR::Packer to create a nice Windows executable out of one of your perl script.
However, the --info and --icon switch aren't working. You might also want to embed some other resource into your executable.
Trying the usual methods
exe_update.pl
exe_update --icon=jambon.ico jambon.exe
exe_update does not work with PAR::Packer executable. It will destroy your file.
ResHacker
ResHacker.exe -modify "jambon.exe", "jambon.exe", "jambon.ico", ICONGROUP, WINEXE, 0 ResHacker.exe -delete "jambon.exe", "jambon.exe", versioninfo,1, ResHacker.exe -addoverwrite "jambon.exe", "jambon.exe", "jambon\version_info.res", versioninfo,1,
ResHacker will edit the resource of your file correctly. However, the executable will error when launching since its signature has changed. This is not acceptable.
Where the icon and version comes from
When built statically, a pp compiled executable is made of data stored in Static.pm, which is made from Static.in and boot.exe. This boot.exe file is the one that contains the final resources.
The resources used to build this file are located in cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.015-?????\myldr\winres. Modifying these files and rebuilding boot.exe will allow you to change your final executable resources.
The ugly solution that works
Before packing your perl script, rebuild boot.exe with your custom information.
This can easily be automated using a makefile, like this one:
PERL_DIR = C:\StupidPrograms\strawberryperl\perl PAR_PACKER_SRC = C:\StupidPrograms\strawberryperl\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.015-2TLZDS all: copy /Y medias\jambon.ico $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\winres\pp.ico copy /Y medias\jambon.rc $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\winres\pp.rc del $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\ppresource.coff cd /D $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\ && perl Makefile.PL cd /D $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\ && dmake boot.exe cd /D $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\ && dmake Static.pm attrib -R $(PERL_DIR)\site\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Static.pm copy /Y $(PAR_PACKER_SRC)\myldr\Static.pm $(PERL_DIR)\site\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL\Static.pm pp -o jambon.exe -f PodStrip -f Bleach -f Obfuscate --compress=9 jambon.pl
Your perl installation might be different than mine, so you'll want to adapt the scripts.
This solution is quite ugly, but it does work.
