How to build a package as application ?

[Les De Ridder]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 16:56:52 UTC, guiguidu60 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 16:44:12 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 14:49:49 UTC, guiguidu60 wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 10:43:08 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 08:50:36 UTC, guiguidu60 wrote:
>>>>> I'm a newbie with D language, and my first problem ever is:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a hello world program build with DUB on Linux, but 
>>>>> the program as marked as "application/x-sharedlib" and not 
>>>>> "application/x-executable" (in properties of the file): so, 
>>>>> I can't able to execute the program from the file explorer 
>>>>> (need to do ./helloworld within a terminal).
>>>>
>>>> Executable is automatically chosen if you have a source code 
>>>> file with name "app.d".
>>>> Otherwise set targetType to executable in your dub.json.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> André
>>>
>>> It doesn't work...
>>> Who decide if a file is an application or a sharedlib ?
>>
>> What file manager are you using?
>>
>> Could you perhaps upload an example binary that gets detected 
>> wrong?
>
> I'm on Debian 10, with Nautilus (v3.30.5) as file explorer.
> You can download the helloworld program with this link: 
> https://mega.nz/#!rY1QWIhK!lKyIX192OEfKM8MsZ_WW_QNryl39yCQebkXts2qn7E0

As I suspected, it's because it's a PIE executable, so this issue 
is
not specific to D.

Going down the rabbit hole:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737849
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97226
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/issues/11