After a long struggle, mainly with external libraries, there is now an AppImage and there is also support for importing molecules from Wikidata.
On my test virtual machine (Ubuntu 14.04), I did encounter some problems using this latter functionality (wikidata) in the AppImage, as it doesn't seem to like some of the OpenBabel formats and in particular not the InChI format. On my real machine (OpenSuSE 42.2), it did work, however. I'll try building an AppImage with an older CentOS next...
Edit: the issue is resolved; the problem was that I had forgotten to include libinchi.so
Now working to get this running for the static windows version.
Problems:
Need to provide OpenBabel (which is pretty large ~ 200 MB)
Need to recompile my static Qt to include SSL (bugger)