AppImage for BSD

[Achrine]

[kskarthik]

Why don't you try out yourself. I think the same process can be followed for BSD too. Just try with your native package manager. Come back when you have a problem compiling.

[probonopd]

I haven't tried so far; mainly because I don't have a BSD Live ISO that can be live-booted with GRUB2.

[TheAssassin]

@asdedhj have you ever tried to get an AppImage run on BSD? I mean, after all, the only Linux-specific dependency we have is FUSE, which I assume is available on BSD as well. There's a few Linux specific code snippets in our code we could replace, but first, someone should test what needs to be done for proper BSD support.

[probonopd]

It would be amazing if AppImages worked with BSD.

While I agree, we won't be working on it unless some BSD user/developer steps up to do it. That person would, of course, have our full support.

[TheAssassin]

Let's not close this, but add the "help wanted" flag instead. We wouldn't reject a PR implementing support for this, of course.

[despair86]

libfuse: available in all the major UNIX (both free and proprietary)

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD (as a frontend to puffs)
• Solaris/illumos
• Can't say much for any of the more vendor-specific UNIXes, as I have no hardware to test on

I'm away-from-desk rn, I'll have to take a look at the build documentation soon

[kolbycrouch]

I have a tree with FreeBSD support I've just finished.

The only problem is that it currently requires "/proc/curproc/file" ( FreeBSD equivalent of /proc/self/exe ).
In theory this is fine, as it works the same as on Linux. However, proc is never mounted by default on
FreeBSD. On most linux distros, proc is mounted, and the fuse module is usually loaded by udev at boot.
So it would seem that users that will never have root access can use AppImages. On FreeBSD, you would
almost certainly have to get root access to at least setup your system for /proc and fuse.

For most FreeBSD users, I'm sure this is acceptable, but I'm not sure how you all feel about it.

Let me know, and ill clean up my changes and make a pull request. Right now my tree has dlopen for fuse
removed and all binaries statically linked, so i'll just quickly patch only the stuff needed for FreeBSD in a
new tree and make the request if the above issue is tolerable.