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Is it just me, or is packaging for Flatpak a nightmare? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to package and publish a tool I've been working on, but for the life of me, I'm struggling with Flatpak.

It's a wails app, that relies on webkit2-4.0 and some additional libraries that are not present in any of the Sdks I'm using. (javascriptcore, etc...)

To get those libs, I tried building the app AND webkit itself against the specific platform. But since webkit takes such a long time to build, I'm running in circles.

Welp.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bummer! Flathub doesn't want me to use Gnome 3.38, since it's EOL :-(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What actively supported distro still uses GNOME 3.38?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I had assumed, since I can do flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk and select 3.38 (there are even older 3.x versions to select from), that they left it for older GTK apps that are not (yet) compatible with newer runtimes.