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Electron apps to be built from source #296939

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YoshiRulz opened this issue Mar 18, 2024 · 12 comments
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Electron apps to be built from source #296939

YoshiRulz opened this issue Mar 18, 2024 · 12 comments
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YoshiRulz commented Mar 18, 2024 •
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Until recently, it was non-trivial to build Electron-based apps from source (see #46382). I gather the situation has now improved and these packages can be revisited.

  • authy has been removed from Nixpkgs
  • bilibili currently packaged from .deb, little hope for building from source
  • breitbandmessung proprietary, no source available
  • camunda-modeler currently packaged from binary tarball
  • clockify proprietary, no source available
  • electronplayer currently packaged from AppImage
  • etcher was packaged from .deb, but has been removed from Nixpkgs
  • feishin was packaged from binary tarball
  • figma-linux currently packaged from .deb
  • flexoptix-app proprietary, no source available
  • freetube was packaged from AppImage
  • hakuneko currently packaged from .deb
  • headset currently packaged from .deb
  • itch currently packaged from binary tarball
  • logseq currently packaged from AppImage
  • mailspring currently packaged from .deb
  • mattermost-desktop currently packaged from binary tarball
  • morgen proprietary, no source available
  • nix-tour-unstable appears to be a web app which is just wrapped with Electron for convenience
  • obinskit has been removed from Nixpkgs
  • obsidian proprietary, no source available
  • p3x-onenote currently packaged from AppImage
  • pocket-casts appears to be a web app which is just wrapped with Electron for convenience
  • pritunl-client proprietary, appears to be a web app which is just wrapped with Electron for convenience
  • revolt-desktop currently packaged from AppImage
  • roam-research proprietary, no source available
  • standardnotes currently packaged from .deb
  • stretchly currently packaged from binary tarball
  • super-productivity currently packaged from AppImage
  • teleprompter was packaged from binary tarball, but has been removed from Nixpkgs
  • termius proprietary, no source available
  • terra-station currently packaged from .deb
  • thedesk currently packaged from .deb
  • threema-desktop was packaged from .deb
  • tidal-hifi currently packaged from .deb, but needs Widevine so can't build from source
  • todoist proprietary, no source available
  • trilium-desktop currently packaged from binary tarball
  • tutanota-desktop currently just uses AppImage
  • uhk-agent currently packaged from AppImage
  • wire-desktop currently packaged from .deb
  • yesplaymusic was packaged from .deb, but has been removed from Nixpkgs

See also #295770 re: updating some of these packages, #17073 re: building Electron itself from source, and the from-source tracking project &6.
See also #291051 re: enabling Ozone globally.

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how did you obtain this list? quite sure there's a lot more than just the listed

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A grep followed by manual pruning. (I also tried nixpkgs-review, but the grep quickly brought up some it missed.) If an expression looked like it was downloading a Git repo rather than a .deb, I omitted it. So it's definitely possible that I made a mistake.

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Aleksanaa commented Mar 28, 2024 •
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I'd try to add some more:

  • mailspring currently packaged from.deb
  • yesplaymusic currently packaged from .deb
  • figma-linux currently packaged from .deb

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feishin: build from source
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Addresses NixOS#296939 (build from source).
Continues the work started by @dotlambda in NixOS#288210.

Co-authored-by: Robert Schütz <[email protected]>
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feishin: build from source
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Addresses #296939 (build from source).
Continues the work started by @dotlambda in #288210.

Co-authored-by: Robert Schütz <[email protected]>
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@samueldr samueldr added the 5. scope: tracking Long-lived issue tracking long-term fixes or multiple sub-problems label Apr 23, 2024
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yzx9 commented Jul 25, 2024

I am attempting to build Logseq from source, which requires converting ClojureScript to JavaScript first. However, I encountered issues with clj2nix due to hlolli/clj2nix#12. Additionally, clj-nix is not currently upstreamed (jlesquembre/clj-nix#72). I'm not sure if this is the right place to seek help, but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could provide a solution or example for creating Clojure applications.

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is there any information about what the right way to build electron is? or just a good example?

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#303638 should be a good example, accurate as of April.

(Docs would be awesome for this though.)

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yesplaymusic: drop
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It seems like YesPlayMusic has been effectively abandoned upstream with numerous usability
and API bugs preventing it from working, while using old, unsupported Node versions (14 and 16)
and Electron versions (22).

While there have been forks and projects created in its image
(see qier222/YesPlayMusic#2344), it would be better
if we drop YesPlayMusic first, and package any fork that manages to garner enough momentum.

Part of NixOS#296939
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For yesplaymusic it seems that the upstream has been unmaintained for a while and is effectively abandonware. I've managed to get it to build but either way it is using terribly outdated Node.js and Electron versions, and I think it's better to just drop it.

See #364839

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pluiedev commented Dec 13, 2024 •
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Packages using Yarn v2 lockfiles and blocked by #355053:

  • standardnotes
  • revoltchat
  • wire-desktop

Packages missing lockfiles:

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yesplaymusic: drop (#364839)
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It seems like YesPlayMusic has been effectively abandoned upstream with numerous usability
and API bugs preventing it from working, while using old, unsupported Node versions (14 and 16)
and Electron versions (22).

While there have been forks and projects created in its image
(see qier222/YesPlayMusic#2344), it would be better
if we drop YesPlayMusic first, and package any fork that manages to garner enough momentum.

Part of #296939
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pluiedev commented Dec 17, 2024 •
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More packages that are (seemingly) impossible to build from source:

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I'm going to work on thedesk and update it to thedesk-next while I'm at it.

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thedesk: 24.2.1 -> 25.0.15 and build from source
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In accordance with issue NixOS#296939, this is now being built from source.
This also gives us the chance to move to thedesk-next, since thedesk is
actually archived. AFAIK, thedesk-next is completely replacing thedesk.
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thedesk may not be possible to package due to dependency errors. Maybe it would be able to be patched, but I doubt it. Specifically, electron-window-state is unable to find its dependency jsonfile for some odd reason.
I cannot find any info, but I do have my current progress here in an in-progress fork.

Maybe I could get some help from somebody more experienced in this?

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liff commented Jan 2, 2025

mattermost-desktop: #370210

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