search

An0n3m0us / Minetest-AppImages

Minetest Appimages
33 stars 0 forks source link

How to create appimages from source #3

Closed Lejo1 closed 4 years ago

Lejo1 commented 4 years ago

I wanted to create a PR to add this appimage to the official minetest gitlab_ci. How do you create the final appimages from the template? Which tool do you use?

Thanks for your help!

PS: Do you have the source files Calinou? They aren't available anymore.

An0n3m0us commented 4 years ago

How I'd love to do this myself if only I had the time and knowledge :/

I create the Appimages by simply building MT and then moving the files into the correct locations. For the source files I only used the libraries that Calinou has collected. They can be found here: https://github.com/An0n3m0us/Minetest-AppImages/tree/master/minetest-5.4.0-dev-i386/usr/lib https://github.com/An0n3m0us/Minetest-AppImages/tree/master/minetest-5.4.0-dev-x86_64/usr/lib

The tool I use to package the Appimages is this one: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases

If you need any more help, I'll be happy to be of assistance :)

Lejo1 commented 4 years ago

Thanks first for your quick answere!

Do you build minetest as RUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE or with other cmake options?

An0n3m0us commented 4 years ago

This is the command I run: cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=FALSE -DBUILD_SERVER=TRUE && make -j8

Lejo1 commented 4 years ago

Thanks again! I think I now got my first version working.

Your file also contained a locale folder where have you got this from? EDIT: seems to be english only without. EDIT2: the x86_64-linux-gnu in the lib folder: Is it updated somehow or is it static? I think it's security relevant as you might bundle outdated library.

An0n3m0us commented 4 years ago

Neat!

Locale folder I also get from the build. Everything except the libraries are from the build, and yes, they are probably outdated xD Sometimes I remember to update it, other times not.

But the reason why I don't update it is for backwards compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 and older versions of the other distributions... although Ubuntu 14.04 is long gone now xD

Lejo1 commented 4 years ago

Hmm, strange locale seems to be build in windows only. Will just pull them from there. I'm currently thinking about using appimage-builder It would bundle all these library so they are always up to date. Maybe that's a more productive way to do that.

How do you update the library?