mkappimage

README

mkappimage

This is a low-level tool that converts an AppDir into an AppImage. This is provided mainly for other higher-level tools that need this functionality. It alone will not produce usable AppImages. If you would like to make AppImages, you should NOT be using this tool unless you know exactly what you are doing and need a low-level tool.

Installation and usage

Assuming you are using a 64-bit Intel machine (amd64, also known as x86_64), you can use our pre-compiled binaries. To try it out:

wget -c https://github.com/$(wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/expanded_assets/continuous -O - | grep "mkappimage-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)
chmod +x mkappimage-*.AppImage
VERSION=1.0 ./mkappimage-*.AppImage ./Some.AppDir # turn AppDir into AppImage

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/tag/continuous has builds for 32-bit Intel, 32-bit ARM (e.g., Raspberry Pi), and 64-bit ARM.

Building

If for whatever reason you would like to build from source:

scripts/build.sh mkappimage