Packaging from source

This section contains guides how AppImages can be created from source code. It shows a few tricks how functionality of widely used build tools like e.g., CMake, can be re-used to reduce the amount of code required for building AppImages. Also, it is shown how externally maintained tools with support for building AppImages can be used.

Contents

• Packaging native binaries
  • Packaging from source
  • Packaging existing binaries (or: manually packaging everything)
  • Bundling additional resources using linuxdeploy plugins
  • Build AppImages from AppDir using linuxdeploy
  • Examples
• linuxdeploy user guide
  • Packaging dependencies of files in an existing AppDir
  • Packaging binaries and other resources manually
  • Plugin system
  • Iterative workflow
• appimage-builder user guide