mkappimage

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mkappimage

This is an experimental implementation of the AppImage command line tool, appimagetool, in Go, mainly to see what is possible.

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 -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.

Features

Implemented

• Creates AppImage
• Embeds update information by guessing from CI variables (GitHub Actions, Travis CI) with the help of -g, --guess flag or manually provide the update information with -u, --updateinformation flag
• Prepare self-contained AppDirs using the deploy verb
• Bundle GStreamer
• Bundle Qt
• Bundle Qml
• Obey excludelist (unless invoked in self-contained a.k.a. "bundle everything" mode)

Building

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcc 
if [ -z $GOPATH ] ; then export GOPATH=$HOME/go ; fi
go get github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/src/mkappimage 
go build -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w" github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/src/mkappimage