[#65] i am very thankful that you provide linux/armhf appimage, and would like to ask you also for a linux/aarch64 appimage.

it would be also great to have linux appimages built with mobile interfaces (like i build for maemo-leste) with ENABLE_MOBILE_PHONE though for linux, so it would be possible to use that appimage on mobile linux systems like postmarketos.

as i said, i already packaged lagrange like that for maemo, but on postmarketos there is already a lagrange maintainer.

i contacted him and asked to build a version with mobile interface and name a package like lagrange-mobile, but he didn't seem to be readily willing to do so.

thus i ask for appimage for linux/arm64 and with mobile interface.

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🐞 Issue #65 in s/Lagrange-Issues

🐙 norayr

2023-12-05 · 6 months ago

4 Comments ↓

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-12-05 at 05:28:

This is a pretty good idea. Do you know if this can be done via cross-compiling or do I need to build the AppImage on an actual arm64 system? I suspect it's the latter?

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-12-05 at 21:06:

i never built appimages.

i can guess that you can use arm64 chroot, i used arm64 chroot via qemu emulator.

— my scripts to create and use arm chroot on x86_64 machine.

— gentoo article that lists the different architectures elf lines.

you will need some aarch64 image to unpack it to the chroot directory and create the filesystem. that can be gentoo initial stage3, that can be maemo-leste qemu vm, you can mount the qcow and copy files to some directory.

feel free to ping me in case you need help with such setup. i can tell you my jabber id.

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-12-06 at 13:35:

Thanks for the tips and the offer for help. I think I'll first see what happens if I create an AppImage on my Raspberry Pi 400 that runs a 64-bit Debian-based distro (i.e., the official Raspberry Pi OS). That should yield an arm64 AppImage, but we'll have to see how compatible it is on actual mobile/phone Linux distros.

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-12-07 at 00:14:

one issue i often encounter is that appimages assume i have systemd or wayland files, while i don't. so i would appreciate if you be careful about such details. anyway, lagrange appimages from its gitea releases page work on my systemd and wayland free gentoo.