hi, I want learn how to manual packaging linux binaries as AppImages. I’m following guide at: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/manual.html and for a my GTK3 app I created a package with all deps and deps of deps in ./lib and hand written the AppRun script. All is available at: […

This is hard, very hard to do by hand. Hence tools like go-appimage/src/appimagetool at master · probonopd/go-appimage master/src/appimagetool Go implementation of AppImage tools. Still experimental were made. Here are more: [image] GitHub - Ap…

Regarding your error, this is a version mismatch typically happening when you are trying to use binaries that were built on a system newer than the target system you want to run them on.

hi, thank you for your reaply. As now I solved the error compiling on a Debian 10 and so work also on Debian 11, you are right. About packaging, as now I tryed to use ‘linuxdeploy’ and it generate an appimage of 33 MB that seems work. It package lot of stuff, I’m not sure all are needed. Manual pa…

I don’t recommend a particular tool, they all have their use cases. go-appimage is the one I use and develop, but the others cover specific use cases, too. So it’s best to try a few and pick the one you like best.

[image] efa: I cannot manage to generate an AppImage that work across distro (at least Debian, Fedora and Arch). Well, that’s the point of making an AppImage. If that doesn’t work, then your AppImage is broken. Try another tool then.

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efa May 29, 2023, 1:23pm 2

NOTE: I have not used linuxdeploy, I manually collected the deps with ldd and cp

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