COMPILING.md

Running python script directly

1. Install python3

Install python3 from https://www.python.org/

2. Install python modules

Install the required python modules with pip3 install -r requirements-build.txt

3. Running the script

Change directory into sticker_convert directory and run python3 ./sticker-convert.py

Compiling on Windows and MacOS

This repository uses nuitka for compiling.

1. Install dependencies with pip3 install -r requirements-build.txt
2. Run python compile.py
3. Compilation result in sticker-convert.dist directory

Creating AppImage on Linux

1. Use Ubuntu 20.04 (May work on newer version if you change sourceline in AppImageBuilder.yml)
2. Install appimage-builder

wget -O appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-builder/releases/download/v1.1.0/appimage-builder-1.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage
sudo mv appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/bin/appimage-builder

3. Clone this repository
4. Run appimage-builder inside the directory containing AppImageBuilder.yml
5. If successful, sticker-convert-latest-x86_64.AppImage should be created

Create msi installer

1. Install .NET SDK
2. Install Wix: dotnet tool install --global wix
3. wix extension add WixToolset.UI.wixext
4. python compile.py
5. mv dist\sticker-convert sticker-convert
6. python msicreator\createmsi.py msicreator.json

Build wheel

1. To build wheel pip -m build .
2. To install wheel pip install dist/sticker_convert-xxx.whl