Missing dep Glib-2.0?

brent

Hi, trying to build Dialect (https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect), an awesome translator that does not use google.
I have all deps but getting this:

$ cd dialect
$~/dialect $ meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
The Meson build system
Version: 1.1.0
Source dir: /home/brent/dialect
Build dir: /home/brent/dialect/builddir
Build type: native build
Project name: dialect
Project version: 2.1.1
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)
Message: Looking for dependencies
Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)
Message: Found python3 binary
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.24.1)
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

meson.build:52:0: ERROR: Dependency "glib-2.0" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake

I have glib2 installed. But can't find "glib-2.0" anywhere.
Thanks for your time

EbonJaeger

You'll need to install the development files for any dependencies of what you're trying to build. In this case, glib2-devel.

brent

EbonJaeger is that a general rule for the simple build I'm trying to do?
So far I've pulled in a handful of basic packages.
Now it's throwing a "gobject-introspection-1.0" error.

Solution: go through recent history and round up the matching --devels?

edit forgot to say appreciate the fast reply

brent

not seeing (eopkg sr) -devel packages for cmake, pkg-config yet.
official list of deps is:

Python 3 python
PyGObject python-gobject
GTK4 gtk4
libadwaita (>= 1.2.0) libadwaita
GStreamer 1.0 gstreamer
Meson meson
Ninja ninja
gTTS python-gtts
D-Bus python-dbus
Beautiful Soup python-beautifulsoup4

--and we have almost all of these installed. now find the -devels for each of these? I shall hunt

EbonJaeger

brent Make sure that you also install the system.devel package category; I should have mentioned that in my earlier post. That gets you the various build tools and such like CMake, pkgconfig, Meson/Ninja etc.

As for the other dependencies, those would be:

libgtk-4-devel
libadwaita-devel
gstreamer-1.0-devel

Usually I do eopkg sr thing | grep devel to try to find devel packages; there may be other, more effecient ways, though.

The python packages generally don't have devel files, since Python is an interpreted language. Thus, they're usually only needed at runtime, not build time.

python-gtts might be an issue, though, since there doesn't seem to be a package for it.

Harvey

Important things to note.

Not every package provides a -devel package.
When building it might say it needs gobject-introspection-1.0 that is the pkgconfig it is looking for, that does not mean that is its package name. There might be multiple versions of a library and its telling you it wants one that is compatible with the 1.0 series. But for this one specifically:

pkgconfig(gobject-introspection-1.0) found in: gobject-introspection-devel

There is no guarantee every dependency will be in the repo in which case you would need to build that too.
Sometimes it might require a library we have but a different version than we provide (newer or older) this can in some scenarios cause issues if something isn't easily co-installable and overwrites the version we have.
There is no magic guide to follow on how to build all packages and there will never be. Projects can use different build systems, dependencies and their build script implementations are often found wanting.

brent

Harvey damn you are on the money in this one. no, no -devel files for most, all I have to do moving forward is figuring out when to give up🙂. thanks for that insight.
: EbonJaeger I forgot. system.devel might fill in some blanks as well. thanks for those other devels am rounding up.

I will build this thing.
Gentlemen, no one loves a clinic more than I do. I understand you have your own work. Graci.

PS-- : Harvey ---you snuck a couple "we's" in your reply...probably just Freudian🙂

brent

Harvey : EbonJaeger
"Message: Looking for dependencies Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3) Message: Found python3 binary Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2) Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.76.2 Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: YES 1.76.1 Run-time dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: YES 1.20.3 Run-time dependency gtk4 found: YES 4.10.3 Run-time dependency libadwaita-1 found: YES 1.3.2 Run-time dependency libsoup-3.0 found: YES 3.2.1 Run-time dependency pygobject-3.0 found: YES 3.42.2SUCCESS....harvey I learned even if a build is 'missing' a package it will not be evident what the parent package is. so you gotta go online and track those fragments down. EbonJaeger ---those 3 packages you swung me were almost enough. had to find about 3 more that we had including pythonbeautigulsoup4 and another one I forgot.

the other thing I learned is you will have success if you have a full arsenal of tools. any other strand will have to be hunted down.
I have my binary and have to chmod it now. YIPPEE I built me a non-google translator. Far out.

this is solved thank you both SO MUCH for pointing what's left of my brain in the right direction!!

Harvey

brent PS-- : Harvey ---you snuck a couple "we's" in your reply...probably just Freudian🙂

Royal 'we'. Just a habit from before I resigned.

I haven't tried to build it but keep at it, can take time to wrap your head around this sort of stuff. I am rusty and had to think about how I got the pkgconfig translation.

brent

Harvey the royal me, man, I get it. thanks for assisting me all the same