Re: Request for feedback: Chicken as a self-contained AppImage

[Matt Welland]

Hi Daniel,

I'd like to try appImage for some apps written in Chicken. I'm guessing that your set up for bundling Chicken itself would be a good starting point. Can you provide a tar of your AppDir or notes on how you created it?

Thanks,

Matt

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 3:37 PM Daniel Ziltener <dziltener@lyrion.ch> wrote:

Hello Chickeners!

I had a "why not?" idea recently. I'm maintaining the RPM packages for
Chicken, and I thought "why not pack Chicken into an AppImage?" - and
that's what I did!

For those who don't know AppImages: they are single-file volumes (think
ISO or DMG) but executable, and they work, without any further
requirements apart from FUSE (to mount the embedded SquashFS), on every
Linux distribution. You download an AppImage, rename it if you want,
make it executable, and it's ready for use. (if you have AppImageUpdate
installed, you can even automatically check for and get updates).

So in this case, I packed a little script into the AppImage, since
Chicken has a whole bunch of executables. The AppImage is being built on
OpenSUSE's OBS service, and a download page is on
https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1911578/ , where you'll also find further
description on how to use it.

Try it out if you like, and let me know about your thoughts, bugs to
fix, or improvements to make. A bit later I will link it on the
installation page of the Chicken wiki.

Best regards,
Daniel

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