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cortex / gopass

Gopass: A simple password-store GUI

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Full static binary #3

Closed cortex closed 8 years ago

cortex commented 8 years ago

Bundle everything needed to run the application into a single binary, for easy distribution.

These items need bundling:

main.qml Can be provided with engine.LoadString()
logo.svg Should be doable with https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/qml.v1#ResourcesPacker.AddString + a qrc:// URL

elimisteve commented 8 years ago

This sounds great, but wouldn't there be Qt dependencies that wouldn't or couldn't go into one binary? Whenever I use a Go library that in turn wraps some C++, I need to install the C++ dependencies separately.

cortex commented 8 years ago

There are definitely Qt dependencies, so for this to work, the binary would have to be built statically. This is potentially a lot of work since Qt does not tend to be shipped in static mode. You will of course still need to grab the C++ dependencies if you build the binary.

cortex commented 8 years ago

I agree that this seems unfeasible at the moment, I'm pretty happy with the current install method, closing this for now.