Provide additional, universally compatible Linux packages

[carstene1ns]

• [x] snapcraft ^1
• [x] appimage
• [x] flatpak

[Ghabry]

flatpak is in. Appimage anyone?

[carstene1ns]

I guess I can come up with something to replace our static build. Need to find some documentation, but maybe there are "compatible" sdl2 libs to bundle to make the hardware/software detection easier

[carstene1ns]

Some WIP stuff in https://github.com/EasyRPG/packaging/tree/master/AppImage This needs to be adapted for jenkins and there is a buildscripts update needed (shared libs).

built AppImage: https://paste.xinu.at/pvSQ/

[Ghabry]

thanks. Will try to adopt your buildscript changes so we can have AppImage soon. Much better than this semi-broken static build on our website :)

[spazziale]

Is it available on flathub? I can't find it

[Ghabry]

not yet. You can get it from here: https://ci.easyrpg.org/job/player-flatpak/

[Ghabry]

Sorry I postbone this to milestone "0.8.1" for now. I still plan to submit 0.8.0 to the services (and build an AppImage) in a few weeks but getting this all ready before 0.8.0 would delay the release even more.

[oech3]

@carstene1ns https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=easyrpg-player-bin

[Ghabry]

The link you get the Flatpak from is for the git-build. The release downloads are here. https://easyrpg.org/downloads/player/0.8.1.1/

[oech3]

Thankyou. But I noticed that you also provides https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/easyrpg/Arch/x86_64/easyrpg-player-0.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst Which source shoud I use to package -bin at AUR ? I aware 0.8.1.1 is newer.

[Edit] Repacking at AUR is useful for people don't want to add additional repository.

[oech3]

Prebuild for Arch is not linked to libfluidsynth.so.3. Please fix. Dynamic library package as optdepends at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/easyrpg-player is not good for automating.

[Ghabry]

If you really want to repackage the OBS one is better as it's directly built for arch (is just not updated yet).

Guess the problem with optdepends is that fluidsynth is a compile time dep so it will only be enabled when recompiling by the user...

Btw you can still use fluidsynth through ALSA (We can this Native). https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/FluidSynth see section deamon mode, then run the service via --user. This will also work for RPG_RT in Wine.

[oech3]

Thankyou. Even if daemon mode fluidsynth is possible, MIDI without daemon is reasonable. I switch to prebuild for Arch if after ready (or would some dev take ownership of AUR/easyrpg-player-bin?). Repacking flatpak or AppImage built on non-Arch is dangerous.