fix: bundle missing library libhogweed

[rudolfs]

Trying out the "official" solution: electron-userland/electron-builder#2732.

Closes #112

[geigerzaehler]

I’m not sure what adding the shared library to extraFiles does. Does it install the library to /usr/lib? This might mess up the users system.

An alternative would be to link the nettle package statically with the vendored feature. This links nettle statically. However this might also increase build times.

It might also be prudent to include the other libraries like `libnettle.so.7

[rudolfs]

I’m not sure what adding the shared library to extraFiles does. Does it install the library to /usr/lib? This might mess up the users system.

@geigerzaehler: as we're using electron bundler for distribution, I assume it would bundle the files with the package somehow. Not sure what it uses under the hood. I don't expect it to actually write stuff into your filesystem, and assume that the usr/lib path is within the package that it spits out.

I thought the comment on the builder thread was worth giving a shot before spending more time to figure this out.

@cloudhead also suggested looking into AppImage documentation. There's an option to bundle libs:

--library/-l
Bundle a shared library (.so file) into the AppDir. Set up everything so that other libraries, executables etc. use this one instead of a system one.

But would have to investigate how exactly bundler works under the hood for this to be of any help.

[rudolfs]

@geigerzaehler could you give this build a try on your machine (assuming that you remove the nettle libs from your system temporarily): https://buildkite.com/monadic/radicle-upstream/builds/2103#76b36227-4c83-4adb-ba59-6e8783da7cac?

[geigerzaehler]

The app image is still not working.

libhogweed.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have libhogweed.so.5. installed. I guess you need to add .so.4 to the extra files.

[rudolfs]

Ok, I changed it to .so.4 and pushed another commit, buildkite didn't pick it up, so I force pushed to kick it. But it failed to pick that build up as well : |

[rudolfs]

Buildkite is down.

[rudolfs]

So now we got libhogweed.so.4 in the AppImage, somebody should test the latest package.

» ls squashfs-root/usr/lib
libappindicator.so.1  libgconf-2.so.4  libhogweed.so.4	libindicator.so.7  libnotify.so.4  libXss.so.1	libXtst.so.6

[geigerzaehler]

@rudolfs this fixed it for me!