I’m trying to package and publish a tool I’ve been working on, but for the life of me, I’m struggling with Flatpak.
It’s a wails app, that relies on webkit2-4.0 and some additional libraries that are not present in any of the Sdks I’m using. (javascriptcore, etc…)
To get those libs, I tried building the app AND webkit itself against the specific platform. But since webkit takes such a long time to build, I’m running in circles.
Welp.
I’ve been trying for a while, looking up other manifests helped me but I’m still lost on a few things. Maybe we could help each other. I am the creator of open-tv.
I managed to get it somehow working, but it got rejected by Flathub, because they don’t want me to build webkit and use the network during build (which I need)
I’m working on resticity, a restic frontend.
Not relying on the network during a build is pretty common while making an rpm package. It’s a pretty reasonable requirement to have. I’d suggest looking into what e.g. the equivalent Fedora package does.
Well, I would agree in general but also anything involving khtml/webkit/blink and its various other forks is a nightmare to compile.
but it works on my PC 😅
Then let’s ship your PC, that’s how containers work, right?
Yeah I think you need a dock though, or if you don’t have the money to buy a dock, I think you can rent one of those POD containers. Still trying to figure out how to connect to this guy’s computer though, they locked it and I don’t know where to DL the libs for it
I think the key for it is stored in that hashish corporation’s vault.
not just you, I’ve read it before from other devs
Noice! I got a successfull build of a flatpak bundle (without webkit) using GitHub actions. the bundle can be downloaded and installed via flatpak install --user xxx.flatpak and it’s running.
Now I need to figure out, how to publish this to Flathub.
Bummer! Flathub doesn’t want me to use Gnome 3.38, since it’s EOL :-(
No.
