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Former maintainer of these AUR packages here, I’d like to mention that the new rebrand and rewrite that the launcher has gone through resulted in essentially a new launcher which is under a proprietary license. It’s not really feasible to build it from source with a source package on the AUR anymore since we’d need API keys for their backend to do so.

The main issue isn’t building to binary vs appimage here, but rather that the way they’ve structured their project, we can’t build it at all :( such is the leaving OSS pipeline.

Thus, I propose we should leave the gdlauncher(-bin,-git) packages pointing to the old launcher, and only provide a gdlauncher-carbon-bin package for Carbon.

Now he wants to use modpacks so I figured a modern client would do the trick.

Note that gdlauncher-bin does just work. It is sometimes a little out of date, but it generally does the trick. Also note that the gdlauncher package is a legacy version, and should no longer be used.

I do not believe that I'm able to build to binary instead, but I'll see what I can do.

Keep us posted!

I just got my 10yo brother into Linux and he's in awe. Now he wants to use modpacks so I figured a modern client would do the trick.

I'll take a shot at trying to build carbon to see how far I can get

Aren't you able to provide just the regular binary

The dev's build system for Linux (pnpm iirc) builds directly to an AppImage. I do not believe that I'm able to build to binary instead, but I'll see what I can do.

I have gotten it to compile to a binary [..] This has lead to the build succeeding, but the resulting AppImage not working.

Awesome

Aren't you able to provide just the regular binary in this PKGBUILD which uses host's dependencies, instead of packaging it as AppImage?

(AppImages are a headache and don't benefit from Pacman updates. IMO, AppImages version would be better off as dedicated package like gdlauncher-carbon instead of being provided in a -git PKGBUILD)

Any updates?

I have gotten it to compile to a binary, but there are a few eviroment variables needed in that process, and the developer did not respond when I asked him what they should be set to, so I've left them empty. This has lead to the build succeeding, but the resulting AppImage not working. I might try to reach out again, but I doubt this time will be different.

I will port this over to the new GDLauncher-Carbon

Any updates?

Hello everyone! This is my first time adopting an AUR package.

I will port this over to the new GDLauncher-Carbon Github repository in the following days. This is necessary since the legacy GDLauncher repository is unmaintained, and development has fully been transferred to the new Carbon variant.

In the meantime, I'll quickly push out an update that fixes the sha256sum of gdlauncher.png, so the package at least builds.

Incredibly frustrating since there is currently a bug in the release version that stops you from being able to download anything from Minecraft's site and both of the AUR packages for the beta are not updated to the current beta for some reason so this was my last hope before having to try and build the thing manually.