Github action to build the app-image

- Ran into some issues with running the appimage directly via github.
- Runs correctly if it's contents are extracted and ran that way instead
- Did some changes to the AppRun that seems to make it find the libraries better

Author: dafrenchyman

.github/workflows/build-appimage.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+name: Build and Package AppImage
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+      - appimage
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+      - appimage
+
+jobs:
+  build-appimage:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    env:
+      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+    steps:
+    # Checkout the repository
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    # Set up dependencies
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get update
+        sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
+          libsdl2-dev libsdl2-net-dev zlib1g-dev
+
+    # Build Supermodel
+    - name: Build Supermodel
+      run: |
+        cd ./AppImage
+        ./build_app_image.sh
+
+    - name: Delete Existing latest Release
+      run: |
+        gh release delete latest -y || true
+        gh api -X DELETE /repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/refs/tags/latest || true
+
+    - name: Check AppImage File
+      run: ls -lah ./AppImage/
+
+    # Create release as the "latest" tag
+    - name: Create Release
+      id: create_release
+      uses: actions/create-release@v1
+      with:
+        tag_name: latest
+        release_name: "Supermodel Release latest"
+        draft: false
+        prerelease: false
+
+    - name: Upload AppImage
+      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
+      with:
+        upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }}
+        # upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
+        asset_path: ./AppImage/Supermodel-x86_64.AppImage
+        asset_name: Supermodel-x86_64.AppImage
+        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

.gitignore

@@ -362,3 +362,5 @@ saves/
 /AppImage/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
 /AppImage/Supermodel.AppDir
 /AppImage/Supermodel-x86_64.AppImage
+/AppImage/squashfs-root/
+/AppImage/appimagetool

AppImage/AppRun

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
+#HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
+SELF=$(readlink -f "$0")
+HERE=${SELF%/*}
+#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HERE}/usr/lib/:${HERE}/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/usr/lib32/:${HERE}/usr/lib64/:${HERE}/lib/:${HERE}/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/lib32/:${HERE}/lib64/${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+export PATH="${HERE}/usr/bin/:${HERE}/usr/sbin/:${HERE}/usr/games/:${HERE}/bin/:${HERE}/sbin/${PATH:+:$PATH}"
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HERE}/usr/lib/:${HERE}/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/usr/lib32/:${HERE}/usr/lib64/:${HERE}/lib/:${HERE}/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:${HERE}/lib32/:${HERE}/lib64/${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
 echo "Starting Supermodel"
 cd "$HERE/usr"
 exec "./bin/Supermodel" "$@"

AppImage/build_app_image.sh

@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ make -f Makefiles/Makefile.UNIX NET_BOARD=1 APP_IMAGE=1
 cd ./AppImage
 mkdir -p ./${APP_DIR}
 
-# Download appimagetool (for creating the image)
-wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -c
-chmod +x appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
-
 # Copy binary into folder
 mkdir -p ./${APP_DIR}/usr/bin
 cp ../bin/supermodel ./${APP_DIR}/usr/bin/Supermodel
@@ -54,5 +50,13 @@ cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-randr.so.0 ./${APP_DIR}/usr/lib/
 cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 ./${APP_DIR}/usr/lib/
 cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 ./${APP_DIR}/usr/lib/
 
-# Build the app-image
-./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage Supermodel.AppDir
+echo "Building appimage"
+# Download appimagetool (for creating the image)
+wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -c
+chmod +x appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
+# ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage Supermodel.AppDir
+
+# Extract out the contents
+# NOTE: We do it this way so it can work without FUSE and also work via a github action
+./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract
+./squashfs-root/AppRun ./Supermodel.AppDir