Is there a way to exclude libraries

[hhnaidi]

I have a custom Qt installation that contains the debug version of Qt libraries, I didn't find any way to exclude them.

linuxdeploy has an exclude-library option but qt plugin hasn't this option.

Do you have any way to do that?

[TheAssassin]

Not yet. We'd need to provide an environment variable that supplements the CLI option, and implement it both here and in linuxdeploy. PRs highly welcome!

[trumpton]

Suggested workaround is to call linuxdeploy twice, and remove the offending files once the qt plugin has performed its pass, and then exclude-libraries in the main linuxdeploy app on the second pass.

This approach can also be used to add application-specific data files into usr/share.

S.

# Create build-dir tree (don't create app image)
linuxdeploy --desktop-file APP.desktop --icon-file APP.png --appdir build-dir --executable APP --plugin qt

# Remove unwanted libnss files
/bin/rm -f build-dir/usr/lib/libnss*

# Copy application-specific data files from src/share to build-dir/usr/share/APP
mkdir -p build-dir/usr/share/APP
cp -R "src/share/*" "build-dir/usr/share/APP"

# Now create the output image
linuxdeploy --appdir build-dir --exclude-library "*libnss*" --output APP

[dantti]

FTR PR to fix this linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy#283