Packaging

[russelltg]

From @russelltg on November 23, 2016 15:50

• windows installer
• flatpak (Enable debugger in flatpak build #18 outstanding)
• appimage
• .app

Copied from original issue: chigraph/chigraph#16

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on December 4, 2016 12:36

For AppImage, have a look at https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt. You could use it to bundle your application as part of your Travis CI runs. Check out these projects which already use linuxdeployqt on Travis CI to produce AppImages:

• https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/PatternPaint
• https://github.com/fathomssen/redtimer
• https://github.com/coryo/amphetype2
• https://github.com/chkmue/MyQtTravisTemplateProject
• https://github.com/chkmue/qttravisCI_1
• https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger
• https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/ obviously ;-)

[russelltg]

Looks really cool! I almost got it working, just one more thing.

Because I am using KXmlGui, I need to be able to package the .rc file in share/kmlgui5/chiggui/chigguiui.rc

How can I tell it to package it?

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on December 4, 2016 19:19

For now, you can try copy it to the target location manually.
Can you upload the (non-working) AppImage for analysis? I would like to find out where it is searching for the file, since it is not obvious to me where it should go.

References:

• https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/2015-November/009504.html
• https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125595/

[russelltg]

Yeah no problem.
When you run it you get

cannot find .rc file "chigguiui.rc" for component "chiggui"

Here is the image (it was too big for github):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7j3knsvj8ie98i/Application-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on December 4, 2016 19:31

When I run this, I get

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted

patchelf --print-rpath squashfs-root/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so shows that the rpath is not set and patchelf did not run correctly on this file.
This might be caused by probonopd/linuxdeployqt#25 - simply run the same linuxdeployqt command twice. Does it work then?
Please upload the file again.

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on December 4, 2016 19:33

Back to the .rc file "chigguiui.rc" for component "chiggui" issue: Can you define it in a Qt resource file like in the example on https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128193/diff/3-4/ and then run linuxdeploy twice, does it work then?

[russelltg]

I've never setup a qrc file before, so I had to look up some docs and I'm still not entirely sure I did it right.

It still doesn't work so I fear I did it incorrectly.

here is the commit.

Same error.

I never got the original error you got, I'm testing on a clean VM to see if I can reproduce with the new image.

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on December 4, 2016 20:14

I never got the original error you got

You will only get it if you run the AppImage on a system with a different Qt from what you used at compile time.

[russelltg]

Aah makes sense

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on January 11, 2017 17:9

me@host:~$ /home/me/Downloads/Chigraph-x86_64-a50a7b0.AppImage 
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted

is still the case with Chigraph-x86_64-a50a7b0.AppImage and xubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso.

[russelltg]

I'm working on it right now, I've make a few other appimages and not
uploaded them.

I'm getting it to work in CI so I can have a continously running appimage.

I figured out the other issues though :).

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 10:09 AM probonopd notifications@github.com wrote:

me@host:~$ /home/me/Downloads/Chigraph-x86_64-a50a7b0.AppImage
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted

is still the case with Chigraph-x86_64-a50a7b0.AppImage and
xubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso.

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[russelltg]

Hey so I'm ready to start on this again-finally got all hardcoded paths out. I need to package some files in the lib dir (specificly the basic includes for clang because I have to compile code using libclang), how do I package that as well?

I also need to package two exectuables because my qt exectuable calls another one (that is also compiled by the project)

[russelltg]

From @probonopd on March 2, 2017 7:0

Compile everything you compile, including all your self-compiled binaries and libraries, with PREFIX=/usr but install to an AppDir using make INSTALL_ROOT=appdir install (qmake) or make DESTIDR=appdir install (CMake). Similar to this:

script:
  - qmake PREFIX=/usr
  - make -j4
  - sudo make INSTALL_ROOT=appdir install ; sudo chown -R $USER appdir ; find appdir/
  - wget -c "https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeployqt-continuous-x86_64.AppImage" 
  - chmod a+x linuxdeployqt*.AppImage
  - unset QTDIR; unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH ; unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  - ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage ./appdir/usr/share/applications/*.desktop -bundle-non-qt-libs
  - ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage ./appdir/usr/share/applications/*.desktop -appimage
  - find ./appdir -executable -type f -exec ldd {} \; | grep " => /usr" | cut -d " " -f 2-3 | sort | uniq
  - curl --upload-file ./APPNAME*.AppImage https://transfer.sh/APPNAME-git.$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)-x86_64.AppImage