Request: Appstream Cli

[Azathothas]

Hi, hope you are doing well.
I have been busy over at https://github.com/Azathothas/Toolpacks-Extras, so very far away from static things..

Recently, I found the need to use appstream-cli: https://github.com/ximion/appstream
I tried building it, but found out it's not possible.
I came across ximion/appstream#128
That lead me to this: probonopd/static-tools#47
probonopd/go-appimage#272 (comment)

Would appreciate it if you could give it a look and say if it is indeed impossible to get a static appstream-cli
Thanks!

[leleliu008]

I will look into this tonight.

[leleliu008]

appstream package has been added in this repo https://github.com/leleliu008/ppkg-formula-repository-official-core/blob/master/formula/appstream.yml

It could be built as a fully statically linked executable against glibc.

If you want to built it as a fully statically linked executable against musl-libc, please remove systemd depencency, beacuase systemd needs a lot of patches for musl-libc, I have not done for it.

summary: Tools and libraries to work with AppStream metadata
web-url: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
src-url: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.3.tar.gz
src-sha: dd7222519b5d855124fa803ce82a7cbf090ac6b2e44a5bc515e729b1f20a63ae
license: LGPL-2.1-or-later
dep-pkg: libxmlb libxml2 libyaml libcurl
dep-upp: gettext-tools itstool xsltproc docbook-xsl gperf

dopatch: gsed -i '/tests/d' meson.build

install: |
    mesonw \
        -Dsystemd=false \
        -Dstemming=false \
        -Dvapi=true \
        -Dgir=false \
        -Ddocs=false \
        -Dapidocs=false \
        -Dinstall-docs=false

I have no idea if it really works, I had never used it, you could test it.

[leleliu008]

https://github.com/fpliu1214/ppkg-package-manually-build/actions/runs/11711973185

[Samueru-sama]

https://github.com/fpliu1214/ppkg-package-manually-build/actions/runs/11711973185

Hey just in case, the binary isn't fully static:

[leleliu008]

mostly statically linked against glibc: https://github.com/fpliu1214/ppkg-package-manually-build/actions/runs/11711973185

fully statically linked against musl-libc, without libsystemd support: https://github.com/fpliu1214/test/actions/runs/11730041641

fully statically linked against glibc might not work, I didn't build it. if you want to try, please built it by yourself via https://github.com/leleliu008/ppkg-package-manually-build

[Samueru-sama]

mostly statically linked against glibc: https://github.com/fpliu1214/ppkg-package-manually-build/actions/runs/11711973185

fully statically linked against musl-libc, without libsystemd support: https://github.com/fpliu1214/test/actions/runs/11730041641

fully statically linked against glibc might not work, I didn't build it. if you want to try, please built it by yourself via https://github.com/fpliu1214/ppkg-package-manually-build

Thank you!

[leleliu008]

I build only x86_64 for you, if you want other arch, please refer to https://github.com/leleliu008/test/blob/master/.github/workflows/appstream.yml

[Azathothas]

Thank you so much @leleliu008

I have commented here probonopd/static-tools#47 (comment), hopefully they can confirm if it works.

You may close this issue now.