So I’m looking at trying am Immutable Linux Desktop (uBlue Aurora probably). One thing I’m not clear on is how to run GUI apps during development. From what I understand I should create a container with distrobox, install my toolchains in it and start developing. I’m used to containers for CLI and server work, but I’m not sure how it applies to the GUI (Wayland / KDE).

If I do a cargo run inside distrobox for a Rust GUI project will it just work? I saw that I can ‘export’ apps, but that is for already built executables whereas I will be building and rebuilding them.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    5·
    4 months ago

    You should be able to run any executable you like in your home directory. No need for any containers. Try it out with a Hello World app.

    • ByteBovine@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      4 months ago

      The executable that I would be running is cargo (the rust build tool) but I want that inside of a container. I could cargo build inside the container and then execute the output binary on the host but then I lose things like hot-reload.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Since OP is using an immutable distro they are likely unable to install some dependencies they need without using a container.