appimage: bundle libraries which may be absent on modern hosts #5203
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Do not cchange current working dir while application is running. This is needed for AppImage to properly function with webkit2gtk bundled in. We modify libwebkit2gtk.so to use relative dir to refer for WebKit binaries.
Bundle set of essential libs which may be missing on modern hosts since they likely to have newer versions of the same libs. Modify startup script to set current working dir to the appimage root.
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This change may or may not be relevant depending on how long it would take to have #4175 integrated. |
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| boost::filesystem::create_directory(data_dir_path); | |||
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We need this otherwise some wired tuk log files will be generated in application folder if Bambu network plugin is used
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That's a problem then.
libwebkit2gtk refers to webkit binaries located at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux/gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/ using absolute paths. I modify libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so replacing absolute path with relative one ././/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0 just like recommended by AppImage documentation so bundled webkit would be used instead on system-supplied at /usr/...
In theory it should be possible to intercept system calls using LD_PRELOAD trick, but I couldn't get it working using appimage-builder which is using hooks to manipulate file paths.
I'll look what could be done for this.
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Just tested on a new instal of Kubuntu 24.0. with Ryzen9 and AMD graphics. Runs without any problems, I was unable to get the latest release or nightly build to run without the webdevkit error. I don't use Bambu network plugin. |
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Any luck? |
Description
Bundle minimal set of libraries to run on modern hosts like Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora40, Aurora Linux.
Modify startup script and GUI_App to set current working dir to the appimage root in order to workaround webkit2gtk hard-coded paths.
Fixes #4616
Tests
Tested by community members at #4616