Error when using with Doom Emacs

[VitalyAnkh]

I attempted to use the Emacs AppImage ([igc version](https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-appimage/releases?q=Daily+mps+build&expanded=true), specifically) with Doom Emacs, but encountered the following error during initialization:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while booting Doom Emacs:
File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, tex-site

I understand that tex-site is a component of AUCTeX, which is usually bundled with Emacs. This makes the error quite puzzling. Additionally, Emacs seems unable to locate other built-in files. For instance, when I run "C-h v", it throws the error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, help-fns.

My Doom Emacs configuration can be found at this repository. However, the issue can also be reproduced with a vanilla Doom Emacs setup.

Launching Emacs without Doom Emacs is normal.

Do I need to bundle the entire configuration into the AppImage? I’m not very familiar with how AppImage works. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[blahgeek]

Hello,

Do I need to bundle the entire configuration into the AppImage?

No you don't need to. You should be able to use the AppImage just like regular a emacs executable.

I'm not familiar with doom emacs though. I just tested the vanilla doom emacs setup (git clone and doom install) with the newest master version of AppImage from this repo, I do get some error. However, it can success with the 29.4 version of AppImage.

Is it possible that doom emacs does not support newest master version of emacs? According to the doom emacs documentation, it only supports 29.4. If that's the case, I don't think it's related to the AppImage build then.

[innerout]

Hello,

I had a similar issue yesterday with Doom Emacs. After talking with its maintainer, Doom expects the emacs executable to reside on the same path. Something that the default appimage setup does not. With the latest doom emacs version you should be able to use appimages without any problem. If you cannot for whatever reason here are the steps to make it work:

./emacs.appimage --appimage-extract

The command above decompresses the appimage in a squashfs-root directory. Inside the directory there is an AppRun executable that you just need to rename to emacs and add that directory to your PATH. Then doom works as expected.