Running on not-Windows?

[jedieaston]

Does anyone know what the significant blockers would be to running wingetcreate on Linux or macOS?

The reason I ask is that I was looking into writing a packaged GitHub Action to run wingetcreate update, and the two options are JavaScript (which although it has access to Node, it can't install any executables on the runner or lock itself to a single OS), or packaging the action in a Docker container, which only supports Docker on Linux. The Docker method would be the one we'd have to use.

Currently the biggest blockers I see seem to have to do with wingetcreate requiring access to Windows only .NET libraries, some (most?) of which aren't managed by the Windows Package Manager team. I'm somewhat of a novice in .NET and I've only worked in .NET Core on Linux, so I don't know how hard it is to port these. If they rely on system stuff in Windows existing (like I don't know if there's a great way of opening a MSI file on Linux to get the Product Code, as a simple example), then it probably is not feasible. But I think cross-platform support would definitely be worth looking into.

(Also, I haven't even tried running it in Wine yet. Maybe that works?)

Thanks!

[denelon]

@jedieaston I've been circulating this with the team. We're looking at all the dependencies to see where work needs to be done. It looks like we need microsoft/msix-packaging#366. There are a couple of other libraries we're going to take a look at as well. We do get lots of feedback to support Linux for development.

[jedieaston]

A little update on this, wingetcreate new and wingetcreate update work fine using Wine:

easton@Spintax:~$ WINEDEBUG=-all wine ./wingetcreate-self-contained.exe update Google.Chrome -v 100.0.100.100 -u https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi https://dl.google
.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi
dbus[27966]: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-connection.c line 3544.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Retrieving latest manifest for Google.Chrome
Downloading and parsing: https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi...
Downloading and parsing: https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi...
Generating a preview of your manifests...
Version manifest preview:
# Created using wingetcreate 1.0.3.0
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.version.1.1.0.schema.json

PackageIdentifier: Google.Chrome
PackageVersion: 100.0.100.100
DefaultLocale: en-US
ManifestType: version
ManifestVersion: 1.1.0


Installer manifest preview:
# Created using wingetcreate 1.0.3.0
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.installer.1.1.0.schema.json

PackageIdentifier: Google.Chrome
PackageVersion: 100.0.100.100
Platform:
- Windows.Desktop
MinimumOSVersion: 10.0.0.0
Scope: machine
InstallModes:
- interactive
- silent
- silentWithProgress
UpgradeBehavior: install
Commands:
- chrome
Protocols:
- http
- https
FileExtensions:
- htm
- html
- url
Installers:
- Architecture: x64
  InstallerType: wix
  InstallerUrl: https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
  InstallerSha256: 179D213071F06A1C35CA7E900E5CC7A827F3D91972E20D23C7039F8AF02DC4EC
  ProductCode: '{B24F0A95-6C38-3CA4-AFC8-7BDD38B8C51D}'
- Architecture: x86
  InstallerType: wix
  InstallerUrl: https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi
  InstallerSha256: D53ED5276DF7BD025B9D5B9CF8518417FEF3373D73EAE17855292019696F71AA
  ProductCode: '{FBD93D83-F534-3D5A-A588-C0537FFFE970}'
ManifestType: installer
ManifestVersion: 1.1.0


Default locale manifest preview:
# Created using wingetcreate 1.0.3.0
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.defaultLocale.1.1.0.schema.json

PackageIdentifier: Google.Chrome
PackageVersion: 100.0.100.100
PackageLocale: en-US
Publisher: Google LLC
PublisherUrl: https://www.google.com
PublisherSupportUrl: https://support.google.com/?hl=en
PrivacyUrl: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&fg=1
Author: Google LLC
PackageName: Google Chrome
PackageUrl: https://www.google.com/chrome
License: Proprietary freeware, based on open source components
LicenseUrl: https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/
Copyright: c 2021 Google, Inc.
CopyrightUrl: https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/
ShortDescription: A fast, secure, and free web browser built for the modern web. Chrome syncs bookmarks across all your devices, fills out forms automatically, and so much more.
Description: A fast, secure, and free web browser built for the modern web. Chrome syncs bookmarks across all your devices, fills out forms automatically, and so much more.
Moniker: chrome
Tags:
- browser
- chromium
- cross-platform
- google
- internet
- internet-browser
- web
- web-browser
ManifestType: defaultLocale
ManifestVersion: 1.1.0



Manifest saved to Z:\home\easton\manifests\g\Google\Chrome\100.0.100.100

Manifest validation succeeded: True

easton@Spintax:~$

I think packaging a Docker container much like https://github.com/amake/innosetup-docker would be a great idea, I may work on it next time I have a few hours.

[sitiom]

For reference, Komac seems to work fine in Linux and Mac. Here is a screenshot in Termux: