feat(packaging): add a thin AppImage build

build-appimage.sh produces pixelpass-<version>-x86_64.AppImage via
linuxdeploy. PixelPass links almost nothing (only libpipewire, which is
excludelisted) and shells out to gst-launch-1.0/pactl/a player on the host
PATH, while its GUI graphics libs are dlopen'd and also excludelisted — so
the AppImage bundles just the binary, AppRun, desktop entry, and icon
(~13 MB, zero bundled libs). The no-sandbox model lets the bundled binary
spawn the host's tools, which is why AppImage fits this orchestrator better
than Flatpak.

AppRun opens --gui when launched with no args and no controlling terminal
(file manager / .desktop), and passes through otherwise so the CLI,
interactive menu, and viewer all work. README documents the host-deps
contract + the glibc-baseline and VAAPI caveats.

Verified: builds to 13 MB; --version/--help work; the GUI launches cleanly
on a live Wayland session via both --gui and the no-tty AppRun path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Build a "thin" PixelPass AppImage: the gui-enabled release binary plus only
# its non-excludelisted shared libraries. The graphics stack (libGL, wayland,
# xkbcommon, X11) is intentionally left to the host — those libs are on the
# AppImage excludelist because they must match the host driver — and the
# runtime tools PixelPass shells out to (gst-launch-1.0, pactl, mpv/vlc) are
# expected on the host PATH, the same contract the Arch package documents.
#
# Usage: packaging/appimage/build-appimage.sh
# Output: packaging/appimage/pixelpass-x86_64.AppImage
set -euo pipefail
here="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
repo="$(cd "$here/../.." && pwd)"
tools="$here/.tools"
appdir="$here/AppDir"
mkdir -p "$tools"
# linuxdeploy is itself an AppImage; run it without FUSE so this works on hosts
# (and CI) that lack libfuse2.
export APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1
# Embed the version from Cargo.toml into the AppImage filename metadata.
VERSION="$(grep -m1 '^version' "$repo/Cargo.toml" | sed -E 's/.*"(.*)".*/\1/')"
export VERSION
echo ">> building release binary (--features gui)"
( cd "$repo" && cargo build --release --features gui )
bin="$repo/target/release/pixelpass"
echo ">> fetching linuxdeploy"
ld="$tools/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage"
if [ ! -x "$ld" ]; then
curl -fL --retry 3 -o "$ld" \
"https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage"
chmod +x "$ld"
fi
echo ">> assembling AppDir"
rm -rf "$appdir"
mkdir -p "$appdir/usr/bin"
install -m755 "$bin" "$appdir/usr/bin/pixelpass"
echo ">> running linuxdeploy (bundles libs, builds the AppImage)"
# -e: analyse this binary for libraries to bundle (only libpipewire et al. that
# aren't excludelisted will be copied; glibc + graphics libs are skipped).
# -d/-i: desktop entry + icon for desktop integration.
# --custom-apprun: our launcher that opens --gui from a file manager.
( cd "$here" && OUTPUT="pixelpass-${VERSION}-x86_64.AppImage" "$ld" \
--appdir "$appdir" \
-e "$bin" \
-d "$repo/assets/pixelpass.desktop" \
-i "$repo/assets/pixelpass-256.png" \
--icon-filename pixelpass \
--custom-apprun "$here/AppRun" \
--output appimage )
echo ">> done: $here/pixelpass-${VERSION}-x86_64.AppImage"