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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    So us security/enterprise types hate it AND packagers hate it?

    We’ll have all of you back building 12 different package formats in no time!

  • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Well, I would agree in general but also anything involving khtml/webkit/blink and its various other forks is a nightmare to compile.

  • Fredol@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      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.