Create the APKBUILD

Learn how to create a complex APKBUILD for a C++/CMake project.

Preface

Now that we’ve learned how to create a simple APKBUILD, it’s time to make a more complex one. This APKBUILD will be for a C++ project called shaer, a simple command-line utility for calculating the MD5 checksum of a file and printing it to the terminal. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to recognize the dependencies a package has, how to run a package’s test, and how to execute CMake.

Generate the APKBUILD

The first thing to do is to checkout the repository of shaer, which is hosted on ...

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