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Fix Linux simulator launch for AppImage files#41

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Fix Linux simulator launch for AppImage files#41
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@riordant riordant commented May 5, 2026

Issue

Fix Linux webOS TV Simulator detection and launch when the simulator executable uses the standard .AppImage extension casing.

On Linux, webOS TV 26 Simulator is distributed as a file named like:

webOS_TV_26_Simulator_1.5.0.AppImage

The existing simulator discovery checks path.extname(filePath) against .appimage case-sensitively, so .AppImage files are ignored.

Additionally, the launch step reconstructs the executable path using a lowercase .appimage extension, which also fails on case-sensitive Linux filesystems.

Fix

  • normalizes the extension check with .toLowerCase()
  • records the actual matched simulator executable path
  • launches the matched executable path instead of reconstructing one with guessed extension casing

Testing

  • Installed @webos-tools/cli on Linux using Node 16.
  • Downloaded webOS TV 26 Simulator for Linux.
  • Confirmed that ares-launch -s 26 -sp <simulator-dir> <app-dir> fails before the patch when the simulator file is named .AppImage.
  • Confirmed that simulator detection uses the matched executable path after the patch.

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