Appimage-run woes with Creality_Print

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I’m trying to run Creality_Print, which is only available as an AppImage for Linux. appimage-run just hangs with no output apart from

% appimage-run bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage installed in /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3

When using the -d debug flag I get a little more

% appimage-run -d bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
+ getopts x:w:dh option
+ shift 1
+ '[' -n '' ']'
++ realpath bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
+ APPIMAGE=/home/nelz/bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
+ shift
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n true ']'
+ '[' -f /home/nelz/bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage ']'
+ apprun
++ sha256sum /home/nelz/bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
++ awk '{print $1}'
+ SHA256=594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3
+ export APPDIR=/home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3
+ APPDIR=/home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3
+ '[' -x /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3/squashfs-root ']'
+ '[' '!' -x /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3 ']'
++ basename /home/nelz/bin/Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage
+ echo Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage installed in /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3
Creality_Print-v4.3.7.6627-x86_64-Release.appimage installed in /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3
+ export PATH=/nix/store/lf0wpjrj8yx4gsmw2s3xfl58ixmqk8qa-bash-5.2-p15/bin:/nix/store/p58l5qmzifl20qmjs3xfpl01f0mqlza2-binutils-2.40/bin:/nix/store/vwkvhj69z4qqgmpa2lwm97kabf12p26r-coreutils-9.3/bin:/nix/store/cmn958i8qym0qvmvydl23fh3bm3fbhl7-gawk-5.2.2/bin:/nix/store/mxw4m9086d14rja8jnff2w6gqyvif55j-libarchive-3.7.2/bin:/nix/store/g2bjgpr8lp0vrg2045dm3ii030vcv75f-pv-1.8.0/bin:/nix/store/7ycbhck1i9xwg0xlagy4llrf9cbydbad-squashfs-4.6.1/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/nelz/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:/home/nelz/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/profile/bin:/home/nelz/.local/state/nix/profile/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/nelz/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/home/nelz/usr/bin
+ PATH=/nix/store/lf0wpjrj8yx4gsmw2s3xfl58ixmqk8qa-bash-5.2-p15/bin:/nix/store/p58l5qmzifl20qmjs3xfpl01f0mqlza2-binutils-2.40/bin:/nix/store/vwkvhj69z4qqgmpa2lwm97kabf12p26r-coreutils-9.3/bin:/nix/store/cmn958i8qym0qvmvydl23fh3bm3fbhl7-gawk-5.2.2/bin:/nix/store/mxw4m9086d14rja8jnff2w6gqyvif55j-libarchive-3.7.2/bin:/nix/store/g2bjgpr8lp0vrg2045dm3ii030vcv75f-pv-1.8.0/bin:/nix/store/7ycbhck1i9xwg0xlagy4llrf9cbydbad-squashfs-4.6.1/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/nelz/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:/home/nelz/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/profile/bin:/home/nelz/.local/state/nix/profile/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/nelz/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/home/nelz/usr/bin
+ wrap
+ export APPIMAGE_SILENT_INSTALL=1
+ APPIMAGE_SILENT_INSTALL=1
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ exec /home/nelz/.cache/appimage-run/594b0bed46f1498f781f81755b0f2f2ec7d1c9e836fc367e57807a787dccebe3/AppRun
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But no obvious errors, at least to me. Can anyone advise?

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where is the source for this, might be better to see if can be built that running an appimage.

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GitHub - CrealityOfficial/CrealityPrint but the build processs looks anything but standard.

4

hmmm

at quick glance it uses cmake, something call conan (the libarian) and ninja.

might be able to be nixified by a kind soul… or you could hire someone to do it, and then everyone can benefit!

or you could do it yourself, your contribution will basically last a forever, and you be able to show your grandkids the piece of software you commited, 30 years ago, that still compiles.

thats got to be worth it.

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I don’t have the Nix nouse for that. More importantly, I’d really like to know WHY it is failing.

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I’m not a fan of container formats for desktop applications…nix give you containers without esoteric container formats…

a new container format get released every week…‘which is much better and fixes the last container format’…

i’ll clone the repo later, and see if i can get it build.