Provide Bluegriffon linux binaries using AppImage

[kskarthik]

Please provide bluegriffon binaries for linux using appimage which follows 1 app = 1 file format which has many advantages. For more details please have a look at their github repo & their website. This project is even praised by Linus Torvalds source. Please consider my request. Thank you.

[probonopd]

As a proof-of-concept, I have generated an AppImage based on the project's latest Ubuntu .tar.bz2, you can download it from https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/BlueGriffon/view#files and the script that generated it can be found at https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/bluegriffon/Recipe.precompiled

If there is interest, we could also get an automated continuous build going using Travis CI.

Ideally the BlueGriffon project would take over AppImage generation ("upstream packaging") like Scribus, Krita, Subsurface, and others already do.

[brianread108]

that works very nicely on my fedora 23 system - I am def in favour of this for now. An automated nightly build would be fabulous.

Cheers Brian brianr@bjsystems.co.uk

On 23/05/16 22:58, probonopd wrote:

As a proof-of-concept, I have generated an AppImage based on the project's latest Ubuntu .tar.bz2, you can download it from https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/BlueGriffon/view#files and the script that generated it can be found at https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/bluegriffon/Recipe

If there is interest, we could also get an automated continuous build going using Travis CI http://travis-ci.org/.

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[brbsix]

Just wanted to note that running the AppImage on Xubuntu 15.04, I receive the following error:

/tmp/.mount_DpHBK9/usr/bin/bluegriffon: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_DpHBK9/usr/bin/bluegriffon)

[probonopd]

libstdc++.so.6 3.4.21 is required by the binaries provided by http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/2.0b2/bluegriffon-2.0b2.Ubuntu16.04-x86_64.tar.bz2 which I used to put together the example AppImage. Ideally bluegriffon.org would compile the binaries on less recent distributions. or, in case we do the continuous builds, we should use a less recent build system so that there wouldn't be dependencies on such new libstdc++.so.6 versions (e.g., Firefox does the same).

In the meantime we could bundle a newer libstdc++.so.6 inside the AppImage, but that would mean that the AppImage would become bigger than necessary, and it would still depend on glibc 2.17.

[probonopd]

Started working on the continuous builds using Travis CI at https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/bluegriffon/Recipe

[probonopd]

Running into compilation issues which I cannot seem to solve without help. Unrelated to AppImage itself. Maybe @therealglazou can help?

[therealglazou]

@probonopd what kind of compilation issues?

[probonopd]

First, I get lots of mozbuild.configure.options.InvalidOptionError: Unknown option: messages. Later, compilation stops with

# c++ -o host_stdc++compat.o -c -std=gnu++0x -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 -MD -MP -MF .deps/host_stdc++compat.o.pp -DNDEBUG=1 -DTRIMMED=1 -DMOZ_LIBSTDCXX_VERSION=197654 -I/media/20c95b94-60bb-42af-807b-0baccadb5f18/home/user/bluegriffon-source/build/unix/stdc++compat -I/media/20c95b94-60bb-42af-807b-0baccadb5f18/home/user/bluegriffon-source/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/build/unix/stdc++compat -I/media/20c95b94-60bb-42af-807b-0baccadb5f18/home/user/bluegriffon-source/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/include -I/media/20c95b94-60bb-42af-807b-0baccadb5f18/home/user/bluegriffon-source/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/include/nspr /media/20c95b94-60bb-42af-807b-0baccadb5f18/home/user/bluegriffon-source/build/unix/stdc++compat/stdc++compat.cpp
# bluegriffon-source/build/unix/stdc++compat/stdc++compat.cpp:181:5: error: ‘runtime_error’ does not name a type
#      runtime_error::runtime_error(char const* s)
#     ^

I have written down my experiments on https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/bluegriffon/Recipe and have tried different distributions for building.

[therealglazou]

Ok, I am at home now and my Linux box is at the office, I'll make sure to give you my mozconfig tomorrow when I arrive at the office.

[probonopd]

Great, thank you.

[therealglazou]

As promised (Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64):

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/home/glazou/bin/opt/trunk
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-elf-hack
export LDFLAGS="-static-libstdc++"
export HOST_LDFLAGS="-static-libstdc++"
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-s -j8"
ac_add_options --enable-application=bluegriffon
mk_add_options MOZ_TOOLKIT_SEARCH=
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-update-packaging
ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
ac_add_options --enable-media-navigator
mk_add_options MOZ_MEDIA_NAVIGATOR=1

[probonopd]

Thanks. Do I have to put something into MOZ_OBJDIR for this to work?

[therealglazou]

Your choice of dir to host your build.

[probonopd]

Why was this closed? I don't think we have an AppImage yet?

[probonopd]

Hi @therealglazou would it be possible to have builds like http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/3.1/bluegriffon-3.1.Ubuntu18.04-x86_64.tar.bz2 but for the oldest still-supported release of Ubuntu, which is xenial at this time? Then it should be very easy to make an AppImage.