is there a link to all the possible options and docs what they do in build.gradle.kts nativeDistribu...

# compose-desktop

[Zoff]

is there a link to all the possible options and docs what they do in build.gradle.kts nativeDistributions macOS / windows / linux sections?

[Michael Paus]

The best I know is https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master/tutorials/Native_distributions_and_local_execution .

[Zoff]

yeah but thats not complete and also a bit wrong

[Zoff]

• macOS — .dmg (TargetFormat.Dmg), .pkg (TargetFormat.Pkg)

[Zoff]

on macOS it will also run TargetFormat.AppImage for some reason. i you can't tell it otherwise

[Michael Paus]

As far as I know you can’t select AppImage in the Gradle file but it is defined by jpackage and you need its functionality to create a DMG or PKG. So, what is wrong there?

[Zoff]

appimage is linux only and needs special tools. it wont work on macos to my knowledge

[Michael Paus]

I guess we are talking about different things then. You seem to be referring to https://appimage.org/ and I am referring to the jpackage --type option app-image. The documentation does not mention any support for your AppImage.

[Zoff]

appimage is supported, because i build it :)
with

TargetFormat.AppImage

i just cant disable it on macOS. so i have to sed the gradle file every time. which is annoying

[Michael Paus]

I just did that too on Linux via a GitHub action. The artefact which gets created does not look like an AppImage according to your terms. There is no file with a .AppImage extension. Instead it just creates a container folder of the application which contains all the needed artefacts of the application. That’s exactly the container which is created by jpackage for all supported operating systems.

[Zoff]

yes i know. you have to to the last part yourself. but now try to run ./gradlew packageDistributionForCurrentOS on macOS with TargetFormat.AppImage in the gradle file. this should not run on macOS because it errors out

[Michael Paus]

I know that this does not work on macOS for some reason although technically this should not be a problem. You did not mention before that you have “to do the last part yourself”. Would you mind documenting what exactly this last part is? Might be interesting for others too.

[Zoff]

https://github.com/Zoxcore/trifa_material/blob/afb6a8b0e00f9cd4d55561fb801675298df2579b/build.gradle.kts#L152-L201

[Zoff]

but thats not what i mean. on macos the appimage should not run, like .exe .msi does not run on macOS
i think thats a bug

[Zoff]

wherever it is noted that rpm runs only on linux and msi only on windows. it should be fixed that appimage only runs on linux and not on macOS