I have a Windows program (C++ and C#) that I can run on Linux via Wine with a little effort. I have seen that others have produced AppImages containing a Windows program using Wine and would like to do the same.
Can you point me to a good example that I could study to achieve this?
Thanks,
Chris
That is absolutely doable, just bundle Wine and the app you want to run into the AppImage. The AppImage on http://www.wildmediaserver.com/download.php does this, for example.
In fact, depending on the complexity of your app, it may be sufficient to bundle a subset of Wine (to be determined by tools like strace or cde). I did this a couple of times but haven’t done a writeup of the steps so far.
On https://github.com/RazZziel/PortableLinuxGames/wiki/Creating-appimages-from-windows-applications there are instructions; however I did not try them. Let me know how it goes.
Someone at https://github.com/iamale/wine-appdir seems to be working on the same.
Thanks Simon, those links look ideal.
I see the AppImage format with Wine as being a great way to distribute Windows application for Linux. I know that a lot of users find getting applications working with Wine a bit of a pain and want something that just works.
When I find time I shall have a go at packaging my application.
Cheers,
Chris
Have you had luck getting this working?
I’m looking at getting a .NET 4.6 app running in an AppImage - it works pretty well in standard WINE. The difficulty has been packaging the .NET runtime into the AppImage - it seems you can’t just move wine prefixes around and running winetricks on the first run is giving an incomplete .NET install.
I had a quick try some time ago but could not get it to work. It is still on my to-do list though.