Maybe https://github.com/kost/static-appimage/releases it worth a look, I came across it last year, but have not use it (yet). The source is in the "go" language, but I cannot make out how it compresses, it pulls in a lot of things. But maybe it solves your problem, executables are downloadable too. MatN On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 15:45 +0100, Andrea paz via Cin wrote:
Yes, appimage uses squashfs and then compresses it with gzip or something else. This is done, for example, with the command:
appimagetool --comp .../squashfs-root /tmp/my-appimage.appimage
(see: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit)
But appimagetool is not available for all distros; for example I couldn't find it for Fedora. Also linuxdeploy is used to create/compress an appimage, but reading the manual I don't really understand how to do it...