Fastest way of creating Snap of already existing binary

snapcraft
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Hello!

Sorry for maybe stupid question, but what is the best and fastest way of creating snap of already existing binary?

Let’s say, I have an ./myapp, and I want create snap, which just executes this binary (which doesn’t need any special dependencies), how a snapcraft.yaml for this would look like? My suggestion is making simple build type, and overriding it with:

cp myapp prime/usr/bin/myapp

But it looks a bit clunky.

What do you think?

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Use the dump plugin and the stage keyword to do this:

name: myapp
base: core20
version: '1.0'
summary: 'myapp'
description: Snap a premade binary.
grade: devel
confinement: devmode

apps:
  myapp:
    command: myapp

parts:
  mypart:
    plugin: dump
    source: .
    stage: [myapp]