adONisMar 25, 2024

Is it just me, or is packaging for Flatpak a nightmare?

https://lemmy.world/post/13534319

Is it just me, or is packaging for Flatpak a nightmare? - Lemmy.World

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.

Show threadFredolMar 25, 2024
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.
Show threadadONisMar 25, 2024

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.

Show threadPantherinaMar 25, 2024
Is that webkit version outdated? In general you should try to support one of the supported versions.
Show threadadONis
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.
Mar 25, 2024 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threadPantherinaMar 25, 2024
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?