https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage
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Upstream prebuilt if it exists & is actively maintained
Community created prebuilts if official prebuilt doesn't exist & we can't build from source
: ${PKG_NAME}
${PKG_NAME}
: appimage
appimage
${SBUILD_PKG} : ${PKG_NAME}.appimage
${SBUILD_PKG}
${PKG_NAME}.appimage
HOST)
: Required for mounting Filesystems & Images (Can still be run with )
: Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.
: Required for Sandboxing, Security & Performance
AppImages have no built-in sandboxing
There exists third party tools like , but we DO NOT RECOMMEND it as it is not actively maintained
WARNINGS
NEVER run strip, objcopy or any other binary rewriting tool as they will often just strip the squashfs|dwarfs archive, only preserving the runtime.
strip
objcopy
squashfs|dwarfs
runtime
A typical .appimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.
.appimage
On , you will need to follow:
.pkg
.pkg_type
--appimage-extract-and-run
APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1
