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I'm new to Ubuntu developpement and searching for information regarding building apps through launchpad (using recipes).

I have a project of building a Qt5/c++ webkit app and wanted to ask: how to use external tools in the build process? Let's say I wanted to use grunt to concatenate and minify js and css files prior of building the app. How to proceed?

Thank you.

David Planella
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pr.nizar
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Since grunt comes from npm, and since npm gets grunt from online, you won't be able to use grunt in a Launchpad build. You can either copy grunt and all of its dependencies into your package (which is likely to make your package cumbersome), or use something else that does the equivalent functionality, like the libcss-minifier-perl and libjavascript-minifier-perl packages, which use Perl.

saiarcot895
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