apps-static

Standalone portable applications

Static applications, portable across all Linuxes. Builds for x86, x86-64, armhf and arm64.

Purpose

• No root permissions needed

• Using the latest release of an application

• Don't potentially mess up your system - no dependencies

• Portable across all Linuxes

Get the application

You can use the helper.sh script that will download the package in the actual directory.

wget -qO- can be replaced by curl -s

To list available packages:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DFabric/apps-static/master/helper.sh

Change ${PACKAGE} by your chosen package.

To download the ${PACKAGE} in the current directory:

sh -c "APP=${PACKAGE} $(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DFabric/apps-static/master/helper.sh)"

You can place its subdirectories (e.g. bin, lib, share...) in /usr/local/ to be reachable globally, or directly use the binnary in bin.

Manual download

Simply download and extract the archive of the application. The path can be /usr or whatever you want.

Replace ${PACKAGE} by one of the available here

wget -qO- ${URL_PATH} | tar xJf -

A $PACKAGE folder will be created.

The binaries you will need are likely to be in the bin folder, but other locations like sbin depending of the application/library.

Building

You will need to have Docker installed. An Alpine Linux image is used for the build environment.

To build a package:

./build-static PACKAGE ARCHITECTURES...

For example:

./build-static dppm-static x86-64,arm64,armhf

The sources used for the builds are available in the source directory.

Each program/library have its own pkg.yml description file that have:

• the source dependencies (already builded with this tool)
• the Alpine Linux dependencies
• the latest version of it (regex + url)

The build-static.sh list the commands to build the package

Additional files can also be found depending of the needs.

The builds are reproducible and their hashes are stored in SHA512SUMS.

Disclaimers

Features and modules can be missing and/or not functioning like expected.

The applications aren't specially developed to become static and portable, this is not for the moment very well tested.

This project is designed to be easily ported to support BSD, Darwin, NT kernels and to be used without Docker.

License

Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Julien Reichardt - ISC License