Using peel with Flatpak

Many applications in the GNOME ecosystem are built and packaged using Flatpak. Flatpak comes with a flatpak-builder tool, which builds an application along with any of its bundled dependencies inside a Flatpak build environment, according to a manifest.

To use peel in a your app, add peel to the list of modules in your manifest:

{
    "name": "peel",
    "buildsystem": "meson",
    "sources": [
        {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/bugaevc/peel.git",
            "branch": "main"
        }
    ],
    "cleanup": ["*"]
}

This goes before your app itself. So your overall manifest might look somewhat like this:

{
    "id": "org.example.MyApp",
    "runtime": "org.gnome.Platform",

    ...

    "modules": [
        {
            "name": "peel",
            ...
        },
        {
           "name": "MyApp",
           ...
        }
    ]
}

Note that when using Meson to build your app, you should, preferably, still include a wrap file into your repository, as described in Using peel with Meson. This enables your app to be transparently built both inside and outside of Flatpak.