Re: How to embed command line tools in a Gambas app for AppImages ?

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 06/07/2024 à 13:52, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> Am 06.07.24 um 12:09 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > Le 27/06/2024 à 18:39, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I developed a multimedia app based of ffmpeg, which I call with 
> > > Gambas shell commands. As I don't want the AppImage to depend on an 
> > > installed ffmpeg on the user platform, I embedded ffmpeg in the 
> > > project by adding a dependency in the installer dialogue. My 
> > > question: How can I use the embedded ffmpeg, because the shell 
> > > command always uses the ffpmeg tools installed on the host platform - 
> > > not the embedded one. Do I have to modify an environment variable? If 
> > > so, which one and how? Do I also have to consider whether the app is 
> > > executed in development or runtime mode? Is it feasible at all?
> > Normally, you just have to add the 'ffmpeg' package name in the "extra 
> > dependencies" step of the Package wizard.
> > Regards,
>
> This is what I did and doesn't work. A shell command uses the ffmpeg 
> installed on the platform and not the one embedded in the AppImage. I 
> found this, which already suggests a solution: 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59953279/how-to-package-shell-programs-into-an-appimage
>
> But somehow I don't know how to implement this in the Gambas source 
> code, so that it also works during development time. Gambas commands 
> like System.Exist("ffmpeg") will possibly affected by this as well if 
> used in AppImages.
>
> Best regards
>
> Claus

Can you try make the AppImage with the latest commit? I added inned 
'/bin' and '/usr/bin' to the PATH inside 'appimage-builder' 
configuration file.

Tell me if now it can run a 'ffmpeg' (or any other command-line program) 
bundled with the AppImage.

If you want to do some tests by yourself, the appimage-builder 
configuration file template is located in the 
'install/AppImageBuilder.yml' file of the IDE source code.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.