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submitted 7 months ago by ad_on_is@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 15 points 7 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.

[-] baru@lemmy.world 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.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

Is that webkit version outdated?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

[-] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 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?

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