Problems building in Fedora 40, due to missing depenencies. (Specifically docker container, but probably Fedora in general.)

[garrett]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Problem description

I tried to build FreeCAD for Fedora using the container method and encountered two problems:

1. The instructions for building using docker are incorrect. The file is at tools/build/Docker/Dockerfile.Fedora and not at tools/build/Dockerfile.Fedora (this looks like a problem for all container build instructions). Basically, the path is not correct in the documentation.

2. Dependencies are not met properly. This is likely a larger issue with building on Fedora 40 in general.

When trying to run in Podman, I immediately have unmet dependency issues:

~/Source/FreeCAD main ❯ podman build --file tools/build/Docker/Dockerfile.Fedora --tag freecad-fedora
STEP 1/5: FROM fedora:latest
Resolved "fedora" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 504d52d8acd9 done   | 
Copying config 697048ff3d done   | 
Writing manifest to image destination
STEP 2/5: COPY fedora.sh /tmp
--> dec7becbee42
STEP 3/5: RUN dnf update --assumeyes &&     sh /tmp/fedora.sh &&     mkdir /builds
Fedora 40 - x86_64                              7.2 MB/s |  20 MB     00:02    
Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        641  B/s | 1.8 kB     00:02    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                    339 kB/s | 5.7 MB     00:17    
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
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No match for argument: pyside2-tools
Package python3-3.12.3-2.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
No match for argument: python3-pyside2-devel
Error: Unable to find a match: pyside2-tools python3-pyside2-devel
Error: building at STEP "RUN dnf update --assumeyes &&     sh /tmp/fedora.sh &&     mkdir /builds": while running runtime: exit status 1

It looks like Fedora does not ship pyside2-tools (and python3-pyside2-devel).

Full version info

Git main as of today, commit ec44573bdce2707bc296ae85d9b6295689fe2536.

Subproject(s) affected?

None

Anything else?

This is the the result of a discussion on Mastodon, where building FreeCAD on Fedora no longer works:
https://mastodon.xyz/@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info/112425605686318235

I personally don't use FreeCAD myself, but figured I'd spend a couple minutes seeing if building in a container would work before recommending it.

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[johnsonm]

Pyside2 was dropped from Fedora a few releases ago, I think due to not keeping up with Python3 versions. I expect this build not to function right until FreeCAD moves to Pyside6 and Qt6, whenever that is.

[howie-j]

Correct, fedora 38 was the last version with all dependencies necessary to build freecad. I use a toolbox with fedora 38 as the base image to build and run freecad, works perfectly: https://github.com/howie-j/freecad-development-setup/tree/main

[johnsonm]

In a debian container, I tried using the packages from the docker build script tools/build/Docker/debian.sh

apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes build-essential cmake doxygen \
    git libboost-date-time-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
    libboost-graph-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-program-options-dev \
    libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev \
    libboost-thread-dev libcoin-dev libeigen3-dev libgtkglext1-dev libgts-dev \
    libkdtree++-dev libkml-dev libmedc-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev \
    libocct-draw-dev libocct-foundation-dev libocct-modeling-algorithms-dev \
    libocct-modeling-data-dev libocct-ocaf-dev libocct-visualization-dev \
    libopencv-dev libproj-dev libpyside2-dev libqt5svg5-dev \
    libshiboken2-dev libvtk9-dev libvtk9-qt-dev \
    libvtk-dicom-dev libx11-dev libxerces-c-dev libxmu-dev libxmuu-dev \
    libzipios++-dev netgen netgen-headers pyside2-tools python3-dev \
    python3-matplotlib python3-pivy python3-ply python3-pyside2.qtsvg \
    python3-pyside2.qtuitools qtchooser qttools5-dev shiboken2 swig

However, that missed libyaml-cpp-dev and libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev and python3-pyside2.qtnetwork that are now required.

[johnsonm]

I see that d51d2f6 removed libqt5xmlpattherns5-dev but the build failed with it removed, so I don't really know where that bug is exactly...

[yorikvanhavre]

In a debian container, I tried using the packages from the docker build script tools/build/Docker/debian.sh However, that missed libyaml-cpp-dev and libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev and python3-pyside2.qtnetwork that are now required.

The wiki instructions are up-to-date: https://wiki.freecad.org/Compile_on_Linux but indeed that build script needs to be updated.

[johnsonm]

True but less helpful. ☺

Cutting and pasting from a long bullet list of package names, or worse, re-typing, is mind-numbing.

If the wiki instructions linked to those scripts and they were kept up to date as the primary way of listing the packages, it would sure be easier to use...