[Gambas-user] Initial support for making AppImage

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 06/09/2023 à 16:34, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 9/5/23 07:03, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> You need the 'appimage-builder' tool. See: 
>> https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/install.html#intro-install
> 
> I'm confused. It appears that AppImageBuilder is a project by 
> AppImageCrafters; while the official AppImage project is AppImageKit 
> which provides 'appimagetool'.
> 
> I just successfully built and executed a simple AppImage (size: 194Kb) 
> with AppImageTool on openSUSE.
> 
> 
>> Whatever AppImageBuilder supports, I need Ubuntu because the Gambas 
>> binary packages come from the Gambas Ubuntu PPA.
> 
> Again, I am confused. Is it not possible to simply pull the binary files 
> from the user's own system?
> 
> 

I don't know. I don't know AppImage enough, I just followed the process 
described here: 
https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/gambas3.html

If you can explain how to do the same thing with 'appimagetool', you are 
welcome.

The problem is: how to find all shared libraries to install from the 
gambas interpreter and all components needed by your project? 
'appimage-builder' (almost) succeeds in that by using dependencies of 
Ubuntu packages.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.