How to add apps to the x86_64 image?

[MikeDev101]

I've been messing around with snakeware for a while on the Raspberry Pi 4. With a bit of help from a spare Linux machine, adding code is relatively easy. As for the x86_64 build, not so much.

I've tried compiling from source but it keeps failing (either it complains about the makefile having an invalid configuration or some binaries still using 32-bit when building for 64-bit), so I gave up on that. I did some digging and (much to my dismay) all of the snakeware code is stored in an initrd image, which is a pain to unpack, not to mention repackage.

I also tried messing with the snakeuser partition, which yielded similar results.

Is there a way to add new code? It would help a lot if someone pointed me in the right direction (or at least, gave me a clue on how to do so).

[joshiemoore]

Hey, so I just pushed a commit which updates buildroot to the latest version and solves the build issues people were having. If you pull that then you should be able to build for x86-64 without problems.

If you add your app to the appropriate directory in snakewm/apps/ in this repo then it will get automatically packed into the image by the post-build script along with the other apps.

Feel free to post if you have any other problems, I'm looking forward to seeing what you're working on!

[MikeDev101]

Hey, so I just pushed a commit which updates buildroot to the latest version and solves the build issues people were having. If you pull that then you should be able to build for x86-64 without problems.

Ok, thanks.

If you add your app to the appropriate directory in snakewm/apps/ in this repo then it will get automatically packed into the image by the post-build script along with the other apps.

I was hoping for a way to add apps directly onto a drive with snakeware imaged onto it (as if I were to drag-drop code into snakeuser, and use a bit of "from x import y" from there?), so I can quickly debug code.