[bug] "runner": "cross" in tauri.conf.json did not work when packaging linux AppImage.

[liudonghua123]

Describe the bug

I tried to write a github ci/cd action for a tauri app. And I use "runner": "cross" in tauri.conf.json. The binary compilation is ok in the docker container, but I find the linux AppImage packaging is not running in the docker container but in the host, so it always failed with ERROR: Could not find dependency, see linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy#203 for more details.

Reproduction

1. create a demo tauri app via yarn create tauri-app
2. install cross via cargo install cross
3. config "runner": "cross" in tauri.conf.json
4. add Cross.toml in src-tauri as the following contents.

   [target.i686-unknown-linux-gnu]
   image = "liudonghua123/cross:i686-unknown-linux-gnu-tauri"
   [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
   image = "liudonghua123/cross:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-tauri"

5. execute yarn tauri build -t x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -v and yarn tauri build -t i686-unknown-linux-gnu -v

Expected behavior

Both the compilation and packaging are executed in the docker container, not the host environment.

Platform and versions

liudonghua@DESKTOP-DELL:/mnt/d/code/rust/hoppscotch-app$ npm run tauri info

> tauri
> tauri "info"


Environment
  › OS: Ubuntu 22.04 X64
  › Node.js: 18.2.0
  › npm: 8.9.0
  › pnpm: 7.1.7
  › yarn: 1.22.18
  › rustup: 1.24.3
  › rustc: 1.61.0
  › cargo: 1.61.0
  › Rust toolchain: stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Packages
  › @tauri-apps/cli [NPM]: 1.0.0-rc.13
  › @tauri-apps/api [NPM]: 1.0.0-rc.6
  › tauri [RUST]: 1.0.0-rc.14,
  › tauri-build [RUST]: 1.0.0-rc.12,
  › tao [RUST]: 0.9.1,
  › wry [RUST]: 0.17.0,

App
  › build-type: bundle
  › CSP: default-src blob: data: filesystem: ws: wss: http: https: tauri: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' 'self' img-src: 'self'
  › distDir: dist
  › devPath: dist

App directory structure
  ├─ .git
  ├─ .github
  ├─ dist
  ├─ hoppscotch
  ├─ node_modules
  └─ src-tauri
npm notice
npm notice New minor version of npm available! 8.9.0 -> 8.12.0
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.12.0
npm notice Run npm install -g npm@8.12.0 to update!
npm notice
liudonghua@DESKTOP-DELL:/mnt/d/code/rust/hoppscotch-app$

Stack trace

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Additional context

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[lucasfernog]

"runner": "cross" just configures our CLI to use cross instead of cargo to compile the Rust code and generate the executable. The bundling phase is still executed in the host machine. You'll need to setup a docker and run our CLI there if you want to run the entire process in the container.

[liudonghua123]

@lucasfernog Hi, how can I separate the packaging phase from tauri build?

[liudonghua123]

It seems that I can just generate the executable via passing a -b none options like yarn tauri build -t x86_64-pc-windows-msvc -b none.

If I want to make a bundle later, then I can invoke it without -b none options again.

D:\code\rust\tauri-app>yarn tauri build --help
yarn run v1.22.17
warning package.json: No license field
$ tauri build --help
yarn-run-tauri-build 1.0.0-rc.13
Tauri build

USAGE:
    yarn run tauri build [OPTIONS] [ARGS]...

ARGS:
    <ARGS>...    Command line arguments passed to the runner

OPTIONS:
    -b, --bundles <BUNDLES>      List of bundles to package
    -c, --config <CONFIG>        JSON string or path to JSON file to merge with tauri.conf.json
    -d, --debug                  Builds with the debug flag
    -f, --features <FEATURES>    List of cargo features to activate
    -h, --help                   Print help information
    -r, --runner <RUNNER>        Binary to use to build the application, defaults to `cargo`
    -t, --target <TARGET>        Target triple to build against. It must be one of the values
                                 outputted by `$rustc --print target-list` or
                                 `universal-apple-darwin` for an universal macOS application. Note
                                 that compiling an universal macOS application requires both
                                 `aarch64-apple-darwin` and `x86_64-apple-darwin` targets to be
                                 installed
    -v, --verbose                Enables verbose logging
    -V, --version                Print version information
Done in 0.24s.

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