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Is it just me, or is packaging for Flatpak a nightmare? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that webkit version outdated? In general you should try to support one of the supported versions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TBH I'm fairly new to this. Gnome 45 sandbox has webkit2-4.1, while my PC build uses webkit2-4.0. Now, Gnome 3.38 sandbox has webkit2-4.0, but it still doesn't run, due to missing libs. And I don't know how to put everything together, so it works without having to re-build everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Hm, I would contact upstream devs to support 2-4.1 then and find / create git repos for the missing libs, then include those as binaries in your manifest. This should avoid network access?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

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.