I'm trying to build Firefox from source and I'm getting hung up on some of the requirements.
I'm trying to build libIDL, which requires glib. I got glib built and installed to /usr/local, but when I try and configure libIDL, I get a failure at:
checking for LIBIDL... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met:
No package 'glib-2.0' found
I used the very latest version of glib that I can find, ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.20/glib-2.20.3.tar.gz
However, I've also been searching around and am seeing references to libglib-2.0 such as at http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libglib2.0-dev
Are there 2 divergent branches of Glib, like a v1 and v2?
You need to install glib-devel in order to have the glib headers exist on your system. Without the headers, autoconf will mark the library as missing.
You installed glib from source which should have worked. The actual problem was most likely with the paths you chose to install into. The autoconf script may not be looking for glib where you installed it, or it may be looking into another directory first and finding an old version.
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When uninstalling the python#3.9 package, Homebrew complains that the cairo package depends on it. This is unlikely to be true:
brew uses python#3.9
lists several packages but not cairo, and
brew deps --tree cairo
shows a tree without any python#*.* in it. On the other hand,
brew uses --installed python#3.9
does list the cairo package, and commands like brew missing and brew doctor create a warning about the missing dependency python#3.9.
I don't know whether the cairo package (see its formula here) somehow depends on python#3.9, but I guess it does not, and the behavior is weird. What's going on and how can it be fixed?
I think I've found what causes the problem, inspired by a comment on an old issue on Homebrew's Github repository:
brew uses --installed uses the dependency resolution information from your installed formulae whereas brew uses alone does not.
Indeed, whereas the formula doesn't contain a dependency on python#3.9, the installed package does: on my system, the file /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairo/1.16.0_5/INSTALL_RECEIPT.json has a key runtime_dependencies that includes this element:
{
"full_name": "python#3.9",
"version": "3.9.9",
"declared_directly": false
}
In a further comment, the developer explains:
When built from source some things pick up dependencies opportunistically i.e. they link against stuff without us trying to make them do so. The other thing where this kicks in is if you've built a formula with a particular, non-default option. We now store these links in the formula itself and use it for certain commands so you get a result that's correct for your system (i.e. brew uses --installed doesn't miss results that will break things if uninstalled).
This may not be a complete explanation (I'm pretty sure I installed cairo from a binary 'bottle' without any non-standard options), but it does suggest the general area where the issue may have arisen.
The next thing to find out is how to resolve the issue. I don't know whether there's an official workaround, but the options seem to be
Manually remove that part from INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
Uninstall the cairo package while suppressing warnings and removal of dependent packages, and then reinstall it.
I chose 1. and it seems (so far) to work.
I am trying to build and install Drake from source in order to get support for Mosek. I keep running into trouble, however. For the record, I am running macOS Catalina.
Right now my approach has been this:
Clone drake from github to a location on my computer (from https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake.git)
Install prereqs
with ./setup/mac/install_prereqs.sh
Run bazel build //... Make a
directory called build and cd build cmake .. and then make
and make install
And in my C++ project, which I build using cmake, I add this to CMakeLists.txt:
link_directories(drakelocation/build/install/lib)
include_directories(drakelocation/build/install/include)
However, when I try to build my project, I get an error that Drake is unable to locate Eigen: 'Eigen/Core' file not found. I was able to work around this by adding:
target_link_libraries(my_lib Eigen3::Eigen) to my CMakeLists.txt
I found this a bit strange, as I expect that Drake includes Eigen when it is built, but at least this made me able to get a bit further.
After this I get a bunch of messages of the type:
no member named 'signbit' in the global namespace
i.e. it seems like Drake suddenly is missing all the standard C++ libraries. I have not yet been able to fix this issue, so this is where I am currently stuck.
Do you have any suggestions, or have you encountered any similar problems before?
Other information:
Using find_package(drake) does not work with my current approach at all (cmake is not able to locate drake-config.cmake). Am I missing something here that is required to make this work? Where does cmake expect libraries to be installed, and how do I install them in that place?
I have also tried skipping the entire bazel build //... step, going directly to the cmake .. step, which did not seem to make any difference.
In between every different build approach I have run bazel clean --expunge to make sure that nothing sticks around from the previous run.
Thanks!
You need to tell CMake where your Drake installation is located:
list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH /absolute/path/to/drakelocation/build/install)
find_package(drake REQUIRED)
add_library(my_lib ...)
target_link_libraries(my_lib drake::drake)
This ensures you have all the necessary compiler and linker flags. Setting the include directory to simply /absolute/path/to/drakelocation/build/install/include is insufficient since it does not contain the include directories of the various dependencies of Drake.
Note that you do not need to call bazel yourself before calling cmake. When you run make install, it will call bazel internally.
Thanks #Jamie that solved the find_package() problem I had.
I still had some trouble with the build. Turns out that there was something wrong with my default SDK path, and that setting "CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT" according to this: Catalina C++: Using <cmath> headers yield error: no member named 'signbit' in the global namespace after an update to XCode did the trick.
After this, I got a lot of strange error messages from Eigen, complaining that i.e. MatrixXd was not defined in the namespace 'Eigen'. For some reason, uninstalling it with brew uninstall eigen and then downloading and building eigen from source solved those problems.
It now works!
I have clang-format version 3.8.0 (tags/RELEASE_380/final) in my ~/bin folder on a Fedora machine with no root privileges. It works, but it is very old and I'd like to upgrade. I just want the clang-format tool, so I would like to avoid going through the full installation process for LLVM or clang if I can avoid it. I assume I can avoid it, since my old clang-format works without either of those installed. I don't remember how clang-format got in my ~/bin directory, and I can't figure out how to update it.
The first thing I tried was following this post which said I should be able to download a prebuilt binary from this page (I tried http://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-Fedora27.tar.xz), then just set up a symlink to bin/clang-format. This did not work for me. When I type /path/to/bin/clang-format --help I get the error error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
The next thing I tried is downloading the clang source code and compiling that with
mkdir build && cd build && CC=$(which gcc) CXX=$(which g++) cmake ..
but when I did I got the error
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:36 (message):
llvm-config not found -- LLVM_CONFIG-NOTFOUND
Which I guess means I'd need to install the LLVM to go this route?
Any help getting an updated clang-format (vesion 5.0 at minimum) without root access would be appreciated. Bonus points for minimal installation (i.e. no clang or llvm).
=== EDIT ===
By downloading a bunch of different versions of prebuilt binaries, I've discovered that older versions (<4.0) have clang-formats that work out of the box, but at 4.0 and up give the same error about libtinfo. I guess that means I'll have to live with older versions unless I want to go through a painful installation process.
When you download llvm 6.0, make sure the directory structure is as follows:
llvm
|-->tools
|----->clang
|----> tools
|----> extra
If you just want to build clang-format, then you can cd into
llvm-build-dir/tools/clang/tools/extra/clang-format and then execute make -j8 all
later you can make a symbolic link in your /bin folder
I'm trying to use libffi in one of my projects, but I can't seem to compile for iOS (or macOS, for that matter). Here is one of the various errors I've encountered while building for the iOS Simulator:
bash: src/arm/gentramp.sh: No such file or directory
Update 1: Since the question remains unanswered, I've decided to open an issue at the official repository as well.
Update 2: Question has been answered and the issue has been closed!
If you check the repository you will see that the file you require was deleted in this commit. You can find the last version of this file here.
generate-darwin-source-and-headers.py and the libffi.xcodeproj need to be updated to include all currently relevant source files.
The gentramp.sh script is not needed anymore and the current upstream xcodeproj is not up to date either with compilation settings and to be included source files for 64-bit on iOS. A patched fork can be found at https://github.com/ksjogo/libffi
sh autogen.sh
python generate-darwin-source-and-headers.py --only-ios
open libffi.xcodeproj
select scheme libffi-iOS and device Generic iOS Device
click "Product - Build"
If success, you would see a "Product/libffi.a" in the side bar, you can right click it to get the lib in the finder.
Please make sure you are following the installing libffi instructions released on the TBD or git project: https://github.com/libffi/libffi
Here some of the main Highlights:
First you must configure the distribution for your particular
system. Go to the directory you wish to build libffi in and run the
"configure" program found in the root directory of the libffi source
distribution.
If you're building libffi directly from version control, configure won't
exist yet; run ./autogen.sh first.
You may want to tell configure where to install the libffi library and
header files. To do that, use the --prefix configure switch. Libffi
will install under /usr/local by default.
If you want to enable extra run-time debugging checks use the the
--enable-debug configure switch. This is useful when your program dies
mysteriously while using libffi.
Another useful configure switch is --enable-purify-safety. Using this
will add some extra code which will suppress certain warnings when you
are using Purify with libffi. Only use this switch when using
Purify, as it will slow down the library.
For iOS builds, the 'libffi.xcodeproj' Xcode project is available.
Configure has many other options. Use "configure --help" to see them all.
Once configure has finished, type "make". Note that you must be using
GNU make. You can ftp GNU make from ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/make .
To ensure that libffi is working as advertised, type "make check".
This will require that you have DejaGNU installed.
To install the library and header files, type "make install".
Alternatively, try merging one of the following git projects to your project in order to include the missing files. Please make sure the files are not outdated before merging.
1 https://github.com/pandamonia/libffi-iOS
2 https://github.com/influitive/libffi-iOS
3 https://github.com/landonf/libffi-ios
I'm attempting to get google's ios webkit debug proxy working on my laptop, running ubuntu 15.04.
https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy
I've followed their installation instructions as best I could. However, I'm new to both web development and linux and am having trouble at the step where I run ./autogen.sh.
It runs its checks for a while, but then I receive the following error from the terminal:
checking for libimobiledevice... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libimobiledevice-1.0 >= 1.2.0) were not met:
Requested 'libimobiledevice-1.0 >= 1.2.0' but version of libimobiledevice is 1.1.6
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables libimobiledevice_CFLAGS
and libimobiledevice_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
I've tried my luck with troubleshooting this on my own but can't figure it out.
Anyone out there familiar with this error and what it wants me to do? Is my file-path messed up or do I need a different version of libimobiledevice (which I believe I have the most updated one)?
As the error says, you need libimobiledevice 1.2 or higher. Compiling it from source is a solution:
Download libimobiledevice 1.2: http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/libimobiledevice-1.2.0.tar.bz2
Extract: tar xf libimobiledevice-1.2.0.tar.bz2
cd libimobiledevice-1.2.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
You should now be able to successfully build ios-webkit-debug-proxy.
You may need to run sudo ldconfig afterwards to update the library cache.