Native Linux builds

[marvk]

Create native Linux builds via Github Actions.

If you (yes, you reading this) have a usecase for this, please let me in this issue. If you do, I will consider working on it.

[Blu3wolf]

Hi, Im interested in running vatprism on Linux. Id prefer to have an arch user repository package which builds from source rather than a binary, though.
I may have time over the weekend to look at submitting a PR.

[marvk]

@Blu3wolf Hey there, I could add .rpm or .deb packages pretty easily with the toolchain I'm using right now (jpackage), would that be useful to you? Other than that, I'm afraid I don't know too much about linux releases.

[Blu3wolf]

Well, the interesting part about Linux is that there are several different ways to distribute software. deb and rpm files are two of those, but neither of those install on my version of Linux (which uses the Arch Build System).

All I'll be doing over the weekend (if I get time) is following this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

That isn't to say that rpm and deb files aren't useful, but they aren't useful to me (sorry). The .jar file would actually be more useful as I can just run that with Java. As it stands I figure I'll be downloading the source and compiling the jar archive and using that.

[marvk]

Well, I could easily provided a .jar build from Ubuntu which I think should work? There are different versions of JavaFX and on their website, the SDK is available in both x64 in aarch64 flavours, but for the dependencies there is only linux (See "Cross-platform jar" on this page).

I'll see if I can get to providing a Linux or Uber .jar soon.

[marvk]

@Blu3wolf I've just noticed I'm also able to build an app-image. From what I can gather, this is something that is distro-agnostic, though I have no experience with it so I'm happy for you to enlighten me!

[marvk]

@Blu3wolf did you pursue this further?

[Blu3wolf]

Not just yet - still on the to-do list.

Edit: This is no longer on the to-do list, due limited availability on my part.

[mastersta]

+1 for linux support. App-image I think would be the most distro-agnostic method, but .rpm or .deb would cover 90+ percent of us.

[wiggleforlife]

I've created AUR packages before, I'll whip one up for this. I'm not a fan of AppImages and Snaps, and I don't know enough about Flatpaks to create one. I also don't use any Debian-based or Red Hat compatible distro, so I can't continually test that or anything.

[wiggleforlife]

Here's the AUR package!