Desktop feature automatically depends on tray-icon for Linux, which requires glib >= 2.70

[ronnybremer]

I have been trying to get some advice on Discord and don't know how to proceed.

Using Rocky Linux 8 or 9 to build a DX desktop app, the required glib version is at least 2.70, which is not available. RL 8 ships with glib 2.56, RL 9 is at 2.68.

Using the pinned issue gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core#1018 I traced back the dependency tree and found desktop to include tray-icon as dependency, which in turn requires wry and that depends on soup3, which has a fixed feature requirement on glib-sys with v2_70.

Is there any way around the tray-icon requirement, so I can use Rocky Linux as a build system?
Thank you for your advice.

[ronnybremer]

For additional info: everything works flawlessly on Debian Bookworm

[nicoburns]

wry is a core part of Dioxus Desktop (it provides the webview bindings), so you can't really get rid of it (I don't think tray-icon is actually relevant here). If you really need to compile on old glibc then perhaps you can patch the dependencies to work with an older version of soup3?

Otherwise, Dioxus Native will avoid the need for a webview once it's ready.

[ronnybremer]

Thank you for your insight @nicoburns. I will look a bit further into this. For me the restriction on such a recent version of glib rules out pretty much most LTS Linux distributions. It's definitely an impact to not be able to support those environments because of a feature I would not need but can't exclude it during compile time.

Dioxus Native sounds very promising, but might still be too far away for me atm.