Help to build a AppImage on my Expresseur freeware project

Creating AppImages
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Hello
I have a freeware on github ExpresseurV3 for my project Expresseur
It seems to be OK for Mac and Windows.
It works on Linux. But it is not packaged at all. I would like to use AppImage to package it.
But I need help to start this new world AppImage…

Status :
I have a GNUmakefile which builds a directory where all the ressources are (expresseur /Expresseur.app/Contents/Linux). I have to run the application expresseur, using a terminal, under this directory, with the command-line “./expresseur”. Then, it works fine …

Technology :
C++
wxwidgets framework, which build native GTK user-interface ( & Windows & Mac).
LUA and RtMIDI are C++ which are embeded-linked within the exe.
external dependencies : un4seen sound libraries for Linux (& Windows & Mac)
the GNUmakefile (made for Linux & MacOSx ) builds :

  • two libraries : luabass.so and basslua/basslua.dylib
  • two exe : expresseur (graphical User Interface GTK ), and expresscmd (command-line tool)

Question :
how to start an appImage ?
I see plenty of methods… I have difficulty to see where to start with my status…
If somebody can help ? ( I can pay a little bit if necessary , for the service )

Thank you in advance for your cooperation
Franck

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Hi Franck,

thanks for joining here.

Can you make your project build on Travis CI?

Then we could use something like linuxdeployqt to turn it into an AppImage.