build fails: no rule to make target

[leotaku]

When I try to build emacs-libvterm the way the repository README suggests, make fails with the following error message:

[  8%] Performing update step for 'libvterm'
[ 16%] No configure step for 'libvterm'
[ 25%] Performing build step for 'libvterm'
[ 33%] No install step for 'libvterm'
[ 41%] Completed 'libvterm'
[ 66%] Built target libvterm
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'libvterm-prefix/src/libvterm/.libs/libvterm.a', needed by '../vterm-module.so'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:105: CMakeFiles/vterm-module.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:84: all] Error 2

I don't really know my way arround cmake or even make, so please excuse me if this is an obvious problem.

[9viz]

I'm having the same issue. To add some more info, I'm running Alpine and my C compiler is clang. I don't think this will help but I do have libvterm and libvterm-dev installed.

[akirak]

I experience the same issue. I tried to build the package using straight.el and made some changes but encounter the same error. Perhaps the makefile need some changes, but I have no idea how.

[akermu]

Does ac68d6b fix your issue? In any case, can you post the exact command line you invoke for the build? And is there something in your build folder libvterm-prefix/src/libvterm/.libs?

[9viz]

It builds now but the problem comes when I try to run vterm.
I get an error saying Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, vterm-module. I tried the melpa package and compiled it on my own. Nothing's different.

The commands I ran:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Then added the following to my emacs config.

(add-to-list 'load-path (concat user-emacs-directory "/emacs-libvterm"))
(require 'vterm)

where the emacs-libvterm dir is in ~/etc/emacs.d/emacs-libvterm (~/etc/emacs.d is my user-emacs-directory). FWIW I do have a vterm-module.so file in that path.

And yes I do have the libraries in the directory you mentioned.

$ pwd
/home/viz/etc/emacs.d/emacs-libvterm/build/libvterm-prefix/src/libvterm/.libs
$ ls
libvterm.a  libvterm.la@  libvterm.lai  libvterm.so@  libvterm.so.0@  libvterm.so.0.0.0*

EDIT: I compiled it with gcc along with glibc.

[akermu]

@Vizs Has your emacs enabled support for modules? You can verify that by checking if the variable system-configuration-features contains the string MODULES.

[9viz]

Good catch. My emacs build didn't have support for modules. Now it works like a charm :)

[akermu]

Perfect :)