Request for compilation instructions about appimaged HOT 10 CLOSED

Thanks for pointing this out. It used to work like documented here but we are currently in the middle of moving this piece of code to this new repository.

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@kovan you should provide at least some information on what you tried.

In a nutshell:

<install dependencies>
git clone --recursive https://github.com/AppImage/appimaged/
cd appimaged/
mkdir build/
cd build/
cmake ..
make

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I tried that, but the compiler doesn't find glib.h, although it is installed in the system.
As probonopd said, it looks like the separation of appimaged to a new repo might need polishing, but I might be wrong.

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@kovan the compiler doesn't find it? Are you sure you don't mean CMake?

This doesn't have anything to do with the extraction of this tool. The build system hasn't really changed.

You're just not providing enough information. Please add a full log of what you tried. Also you need to tell us what distro you're using at the moment...

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Just try it yourself, clone it to /tmp and try to build it, you'll se that it doesn't build even if the dependencies are installed in the system. I am using Ubuntu 18.04. It seems something related to CMake yes. I tried:

➜ /tmp git clone https://github.com/AppImage/appimaged/
cd appimaged/
mkdir build/
cd build/
cmake ..
make
Cloning into 'appimaged'...
remote: Counting objects: 51, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37/37), done.
remote: Total 51 (delta 15), reused 41 (delta 8), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (51/51), done.
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 7.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.3.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Error at lib/CMakeLists.txt:2 (add_subdirectory):
The source directory

/tmp/appimaged/lib/AppImageKit

does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.

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@kovan who do you think put up this repository? I am building this just fine every time I develop on it. It works perfectly fine on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and virtually any distro I tried.

If you refuse to provide additional information (like your distro, the most basic kind of information for debugging), I think we have to close this issue as "cannot reproduce".

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Check my previous comment, I put all the info there.

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@kovan ah, that makes sense. You need to fetch the Git submodules with git submodule update --init. Then, it should work. I edited my above comment to include the --recursive flag in the clone call which provides the same functionality.

But this is not at all a compiler message. Nor it's complaining about a missing glib header. This is a CMake error.

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OK now yes, it compiles. Probably you should put those instructions in the readme.

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I will, if you provide more information in future issues you file. Closing as resolved.

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