Continuous builds for Linux on Travis CI

[probonopd]

This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to a temporary download URL on transfer.sh (available for 14 days). The download URL is toward the end of each Travis CI build log of each build (see below for how to set up automatic uploading to your GitHub Releases page).

For this to work, you need to enable Travis CI for your repository as described here prior to merging this, if you haven't already done so.

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Works for most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Just one format for all major distributions
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed (unlike Snap and Flatpak)
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs (unlike Flatpak)
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

Please note: Instead of storing AppImage builds temporarily for 14 days each on transfer.sh, you could use GitHub Releases to store the binaries permanently. This way, they would be visible on the Releases page of your project. This is what I recommend. See https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases/. If you want to do this for continuous builds, also see https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool.

If you would like to see only one entry for the Pull Request in your project's history, then please enable this GitHub functionality on your repo. It allows you to squash (combine) the commits when merging.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

[probonopd]

A recent version for testing can be downloaded from
https://transfer.sh/lwJu8/Qt_DAB-git.5d4de61-x86_64.AppImage

[probonopd]

Please enable Travis CI as described in https://travis-ci.org/getting_started and trigger a build. Thanks!

[JvanKatwijk]

Yes the build succeeded, is there any way to extract the resulting file? afaik the file was copied to https://transfer.sh/Qt_DAB-git.f56185e, but that is a "not found" Sorry for my ignorance in this 2017-06-01 18:15 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[JvanKatwijk]

forget previous mail, I found the file 2017-06-01 19:24 GMT+02:00 jan van katwijk <[email protected]>:

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Yes the build succeeded, is there any way to extract the resulting file? afaik the file was copied to https://transfer.sh/Qt_DAB-git.f56185e, but that is a "not found" Sorry for my ignorance in this 2017-06-01 18:15 GMT+02:00 probonopd ***@***.***>: > Please enable Travis CI as described in https://travis-ci.org/getting_ > started and trigger a build. Thanks! > > — > You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#33 (comment)>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AITzwLMNLpZhyQmbpIccXTY-IdiM4m8iks5r_uO5gaJpZM4MpXht> > . > -- Jan van Katwijk +31 (0)15 3698980 <+31%2015%20369%208980> +31 (0) 628260355 <+31%206%2028260355>

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[probonopd]

Check out https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool if you are interesting in uploading to GitHub Releases instead.

[JvanKatwijk]

Apart from the very first try, I fail to have an appImage constructed using travis CI. It turns out that - again apart from the first try - the squashfs cannot be found. Adding squash-tools to apt-get results in after_success.12 0.02s$ squashfs-root/usr/bin/appimagetool $(readlink -f ./appdir/) WARNING: zsyncmake is missing, please install it if you want to use binary delta updates WARNING: appstreamcli is missing, please install it if you want to use AppStream metadata Arch: 86_64 DESTINATION not specified, so assuming Qt_DAB-x86_64.AppImage /home/travis/build/JvanKatwijk/qt-dab/appdir should be packaged as Qt_DAB-x86_64.AppImage WARNING: AppStream upstream metadata is missing, please consider creating it in usr/share/metainfo/qt-dab.appdata.xml Please see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps for more information. Generating squashfs... mksquashfs: invalid option SYNTAX:mksquashfs source1 source2 ... dest [options] [-e list of exclude dirs/files] Filesystem build options:

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-comp <comp> select <comp> compression Compressors available: 2017-06-01 20:42 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[probonopd]

mksquashfs: invalid option looks like the wrong mksquash is executed. Let me investigate.

[JvanKatwijk]

This is the one I imported through the apt-get, if not imported the claim is that there is not a mksquashfs 2017-06-03 13:11 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[probonopd]

The mksquashfs from Ubuntu is unusable because it does not contain plougher/squashfs-tools#13 yet

[JvanKatwijk]

then, were should the right one be downloaded from? 2017-06-03 13:17 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[probonopd]

Please see my other PR, I fixed it by setting $PATH

[JvanKatwijk]

super, it works. Thanks 2017-06-03 13:22 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[JvanKatwijk]

Thanks I managed to create a qt4 version of the qt-dab software, with spectrum and the result is now a release. Still have to figure out how to incorporate the driver for airspy anyway thanks 2017-06-01 20:42 GMT+02:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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