postsack-native

Postsack Native

This crate embeds ps-core, ps-database and ps-importer to build a native version of Postsack for macOS, Linux and Windows.

A native version can be run via cargo run or cargo build, however a proper application requires installing cargo bundle:

cargo install cargo-bundle

macOS

For macOS, there is a script that will build a fat binary (with aarch64 and x86_64) into a macOS Postsack.app bundle. Just running cargo bundle --release will also create an app bundle, but it will only contain the host architecture.

./build_mac.sh

Linux

Depending on your Linux installation, you will need to install a couple of dependencies:

Fedora Based

sudo dnf install @development-tools glib cairo-devel pango-devel gdk-pixbux2-devel atk-devel gtk3 gtk3-devel libsqlite3x-devel

Ubuntu based

sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libspeechd-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev

Arch based

Thanks to Emilio Reggi, there's an Arch package here

NixOS

There's a shell.nix in this directory. It can be used to run Postsack on NixOS via:

> nix-shell shell.nix
$ cargo run

Building

./build_linux.sh

Windows

Building for Windows works but doesn't create a proper application (e.g. with an icon) and also doesn't create a proper installer.

• cargo bundle doesn't currently work on Windows
• cargo wix should work, but I could not get it to work
• cargo build --release works, but then the binary has no icon.

Running build_windows.bat therefore will currently just run cargo build --release

build_windows.bat