Reduce Binary

This utilises GitHub Action to detect, build and release the latest version of the app as soon as they get released.

One-liner to get the latest reduce.appimage build:

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/deargen/reduce-binary/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*appimage" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi - \
&& chmod +x reduce.appimage

## optionaly, move it into your $PATH
mv reduce.appimage /usr/local/bin/reduce
reduce

For macOS, get .tar.gz.

if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
    if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "arm64" ]]; then
        curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/deargen/reduce-binary/releases/latest \
        | grep "browser_download_url.*macos-aarch64.tar.gz" \
        | cut -d : -f 2,3 \
        | tr -d \" \
        | wget -qi - \
        && mv reduce-macos-aarch64.tar.gz reduce.tar.gz
    else
        curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/deargen/reduce-binary/releases/latest \
        | grep "browser_download_url.*macos-x86_64.tar.gz" \
        | cut -d : -f 2,3 \
        | tr -d \" \
        | wget -qi - \
        && mv reduce-macos-x86_64.tar.gz reduce.tar.gz
    fi
fi

What is this?

1. For Linux, a Docker build of Reduce Appimage
2. For macOS, a build script which generates reduce.tar.gz.

Why use Docker?

The advantages of using docker:

• Obtain consistent build results on any computer.
• No need to install a slew of build packages on your own machine.
• Built from the official source code, so you can trust.

Build it yourself from source code

I assume you have docker installed already.

# change the version in the script
bash build.sh

Where has the AppImage been tested to run?

It has been tested on these fine Linux platforms and will likely work for anything newer than centos 6.9 (which is a few years old now.) Please file an issue if you find otherwise or need support on a different platform.

ubuntu 22.04
ubuntu 20.04
ubuntu 18.04
manjaro 19.02
centos 7
centos 8
fedora 33

The distributed build will not work on old os's (like Centos 6), since they have older glibc libraries. If you need it to work on those systems, try modifying the Dockerfile to use an older ubuntu as the base image and doing a docker build.

What is the sauce that makes this work?

The Dockerfile contains all the magic ingredients to compile the app.

Credit

This project is forked and inspired from tmux-appimage but added Github Action CI to build and release automatically.

Maintainance Note (Important)

The Github Action will be disabled if the project doesn't update for a few months. You can re-enable it in the "Actions" tab.