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Instructions on how to create an appimage of Skyscraper.
Made some corrections and prettied it up some.
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Just to add: the reason I made it at all is because it cannot be built on Batocera. This way you can use it there too. |
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Summary
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APPIMAGE.md, a practical guide for building a portable AppImage version of Skyscraper.The document is based on a successful real-world build and test process performed on Debian Trixie/Sid (WSL2) and verified to work on Batocera v43.
Why
While Skyscraper builds easily from source, creating a fully self-contained AppImage required a number of additional steps that were not immediately obvious:
PREFIX=/usr,SYSCONFDIR=/usr/etc)peas.jsonare correctly includedThe goal of this document is to save other users from repeating the same troubleshooting process.
Notes
This is not intended to be the definitive or only way to build an AppImage. It simply documents one workflow that was successfully tested and produced a working AppImage.
Tested on: