Troubleshooting appimage build

Building & Packaging
1

So I’m trying to build an appimage following the instructions here: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/from-source/native-binaries.html.

However, when running

make install -DESTDIR=AppDir
.../linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir AppDir

I get an error:

-- Deploying dependencies for existing files in AppDir -- 
Deploying dependencies for ELF file AppDir/usr/bin/FreeCADCmd 
ERROR: Could not find dependency: libFreeCADApp.so 
ERROR: Failed to deploy dependencies for existing files

The result is slightly better when running

cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/freecad-install/usr/
make install
.../linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir /path/to/freecad-install/

But that still halts at

ERROR: Could not find dependency: Import.so 
ERROR: Failed to deploy dependencies for existing files

Any help would be appreciated.

2

you may want to ping looo on this

3

Hi looo, tagging on Kunda’s suggestion. Do you have any idea what might be happening?

4

I think looo doesn’t follow this procedure so I don’t know if he would be of much help

5

If he can get me a step by step process that works for him, I’d be fine with that. (probably) unless that involves downloading a large amount of dependencies.

6

I think that @looo has published somewhere the script he uses to make the Appimage:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle

Regards

Carlo D.