[Gambas-user] Initial support for making AppImage

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 08/09/2023 à 19:26, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> 
> I installed Debian on a QEMU/KVM VM and tried to create an appimage of 
> the default "hello world" new console application (hello.gambas). It 
> failed. "Create-AppImage-Package-Output" attached.

According to the output, you specified debian repositories. You must 
specified Ubuntu repositories, otherwise it can't work!

> 
> I also tried following the example at 
> https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/gambas3.html. 
> "appimage-builder --generate" failed to produce a YML file that looked 
> usable; ie. it listed nothing to include in the AppDir:apt:include: 
> section. "AppImageBuilder.yml" attached.
> 
> I then tried making an appimage from hello.gambas following the 
> procedures at the above appimage-builder example. The generate step 
> failed as well with similar output to the example. 
> "appimage-builer-generate-output" attached.
> 
> I think the following line, common to both outputs except for the app 
> name, may indicate at least part of the issue causing the failure to 
> produce a viable YML file when trying to create an appimage manually:
> WARNING:AppRuntimeAnalyser:/tmp/.mount_appima0Khv6d/usr/bin/strace -f -E 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH= -e trace=openat --status=successful 
> /home/user/devel/appimage-demo-gambas3/AppDir/usr/bin/appimage-demo-gambas3.gambas $@ exited with code 127
> 
> I didn't find any mention of Gambas exit codes on the Wiki, so I don't 
> know what code 127 might mean.

It's not a problem, as I don't use "appimage-builder --generate". It's 
not reliable. I just have to specify manually in the 
'AppImageBuilder.yml' file the same dependencies as if I would create a 
Ubuntu binary package.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.