Alpha fails to build on openSUSE

[rickykresslein]

Following the Installation for Wayland instructions for the Alpha version of espanso, it fails to build on openSUSE. Here is the error:

warning: src/evdev/native.cpp:49:10: fatal error: xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h: No such file or directory
warning:    49 | #include "xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h"
warning:       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
warning: compilation terminated.

error: failed to run custom build command for `espanso-detect v0.1.0 (/home/ricky/Downloads/espanso/espanso-detect)`

It seems xkbcommon cannot be found, but libxkbcommon-devel is installed.
I don't know if this is actually an issue in espanso or one of its dependencies, but I wasn't sure where else to go for help.
If anyone has gotten espanso (alpha) to build on openSUSE (Tumbleweed) any help would be appreciated.

[rickykresslein]

I was able to figure this out. xkbcommon.h is stored in a different directory in openSUSE, so you need to make a symlink to it in order for espanso-detect to find it. For those looking to install espanso alpha on openSUSE:

Install the build requirements:

sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis
sudo zypper in wl-clipboard libxkbcommon-devel dbus-1-devel wxGTK3-3_2-devel rustup libopenssl-devel libcap-progs
rustup toolchain install stable

Create the xkbcommon symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/include/libxkbcommon/xkbcommon /usr/include/

After that you can build epsanso using the instructions for Wayland.

[federico-terzi]

Hey @rickykresslein,

Thanks for sharing! We should probably find a way to make this possible even without the symlink, I'm reopening the issue. If someone with openSUSE experience has any idea on how we should have handled this (perhaps including some extra include directories?) please let us know

Cheers :)

[Vogtinator]

You need to get the proper compile flags through something like pkg-config --cflags xkbcommon