Help packaging builds with Qt6 into appimage.

[Steve Edmonds]

I have no trouble building GC with Qt 5... and packaging with linuxdeployqt into an appimage to transfer to my laptop on the trainer.

I can build and run GC built with Qt 6, 6.6.1 through to 6.7.0, on my desktop but trying to package with either linuxdeployqt or linuxdeploy fails due to a dependency error, missing libmimerapi.so. I have added a libmimerapi.so from a mimersql package but then get a failed dependency with missing (from memory) libmysql-client.

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this and could help me with a solution.

TIA, steve

[Ale Martinez]

I have not tried packing using Qt6 yet, but since that plug-in is not used by GC, my first attempt would be to add it to exclude-libs parameter. 

[Steve Edmonds]

Thanks Ale, I have not been successful with exclude-libs yet. From what I can tell with linuxdeployqt it can exclude a library that ldd finds but will still fail when an ldd dependency fails. With linuxdeploy the --exclude-library option does not seem to work with the linuxdeploy-plugin-qt-x86_64.AppImage plugin.

I will try manually packaging the Qt libs when I get a chance.