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@dodotronix: Thanks. Updated.

Hi, thanks for this package. I got the following error last night, when installing it.

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value.  Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax
  to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
  to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.

  Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

    Aborting...

Might be good to add the -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 as a parameter in build().

Look good :) , sed -i... not needed

My fault before I wasn't clear enough

the issue is at download time for who have configured a common download folder in makepkg.conf (SRCDEST=)

About renaming sources I meant something like these (snippets from https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix/blob/master/a/appimagelauncher-git/PKGBUILD)

"AppImage-cpr::git+https://github.com/AppImage/cpr.git"

[...]

git config submodule.lib/cpr.url "${srcdir}/AppImage-cpr"

@FabioLolix: Thanks. I have an updated PKGBUILD version with your suggested changes, but here is a different one, I think I prefer, that is based on the source archive with included submodules:

pkgname=appimagelauncher
pkgver=2.2.0
_pkgver=0f91801
pkgrel=8
pkgdesc='Helper for running and integrating AppImages'
#arch=(x86_64)
arch=(x86_64 aarch64)
url=https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher
license=(MIT)
depends=(cairo desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme libappimage libbsd libxpm qt5-base shared-mime-info)
makedepends=(boost cmake git gtest python qt5-tools)
#source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tag.gz::$url/archive/refs/tags/v2.2.0.tar.gz"
#source=("git+https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher.git#tag=v$pkgver"
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver-$_pkgver.tar.xz::$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/appimagelauncher-$_pkgver.source.tar.xz"
         appimage-binfmt-remove.hook)
sha256sums=('2ef58ed3233912677522620bbb1162bedd41206a786d93cbd5e0ff682aed8a75'
            '72a2630cf79b8f90bc21eae1d9f40c07fe77ce22df46c511b500f514455d7c81')

# Workaround for newer GCC
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-discarded-qualifiers -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types"

prepare() {
  cd $pkgname-$_pkgver.source

  # Avoid 'fatal' git messages
  sed -i 's/COMMAND git rev-parse --short HEAD/COMMAND echo 0/' lib/AppImageUpdate/{CMakeLists.txt,lib/zsync2/CMakeLists.txt}

}

build() {
  cd $pkgname-$_pkgver.source

  cmake . \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DUSE_SYSTEM_LIBAPPIMAGE=ON \
    -DUSE_SYSTEM_GTEST=ON \
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
    -Wno-dev
  make libappimageupdate libappimageupdate-qt

  cmake .
  make
}

package() {
  install -Dm644 appimage-binfmt-remove.hook -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/libalpm/hooks"

  cd $pkgname-$_pkgver.source
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
  install -Dm644 LICENSE.txt -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
}

Hello willemw, please rename the cpr source since it is a fork and don't play well with makepkg SRCDEST= folder

  -> Updating AppImageUpdate git repo...
==> ERROR: /mnt/1TBWDBLACK/source/cpr is not a clone of https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/cpr.git
    Aborting...

You can also use the source archive with git submodules included https://github.com/FabioLolix/PKGBUILD-AUR_fix/blob/master/a/appimagelauncher/PKGBUILD

The zsync2 one now redirect to https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/zsync2 ; I have that change locally but not AUR if remember well

About the version I'm of the opinion of using either the git tag or commit+pkgver() like it was before for git checkouts

Added a workaround to make it build with the latest GCC version.

Upstream is not maintaining the project and it currently won't build. @oberon2007 and I have disowned the package.

As an alternative, I suggest Gear Lever (Flatpak, WIP AUR package).

I couldn't file an upstream pull request. I don't know if it even needs fixing upstream. Because upstream's "appimagelauncher" repo isn't even using their own latest commit on the "zsync2" repo. They're using something from 2019, latest commit was from December of 2023.

Thanks for the hint regarding Gear Lever, though.

@kode54: I see no upstream pull request. Either way, apparently upstream doesn't care about releasing a new version. I may disown this package as it no longer maintainable. Check out Gear Lever instead. I don't even use AppImages anymore.

Here's a patch to get zsync2 building with GCC14 and get this whole thing built:

https://gist.github.com/kode54/1044dc5cd31c614ed1e92b4155a0d0c5

Edit: And they're not even using the latest upstream zsync2 commit in AppImageLauncher, they're using a commit from 2019.