hhvm doesn't build on osx using homebrew

[evert]

I've been updating to the latest HEAD every few days, hoping this was a temporary issue. But since about 2 weeks I have not been able to install hhvm using brew.

I'm following these instructions:

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Building-and-installing-HHVM-on-OSX-10.9

The error plus some additional info:

In file included from /tmp/hhvm-30TM/hphp/runtime/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.cpp:65:0:
/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:32:22: fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ft2build.h>
                      ^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [hphp/runtime/CMakeFiles/hphp_runtime_static.dir/ext/gd/libgd/gdft.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [hphp/runtime/CMakeFiles/hphp_runtime_static.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> Formula
Tap: mcuadros/hhvm
Path: /usr/local/Library/Taps/mcuadros-hhvm/Formula/hhvm.rb
==> Configuration
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.5
HEAD: 13ce75adba711d9b2def7061125e260ccd182e6e
CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
OS X: 10.9.1-x86_64
Xcode: 5.0.2
CLT: 5.0.1.0.1.1382131676
X11  2.7.5 => /opt/X11

Let me know if you need anything else :)

[scannell]

@demon was still having this problem too. I've built fine so I'm not sure what it is. @danslo, did you figure out a way around this? I thought you saw it and then fixed it.

[danslo]

@scannell Nope. I can build fine too. :-(

[evert]

I wonder if it's trying to use the system freetype rather than the brew one. Going to try reinstalling brew freetype and see what happens.

I wish I was better versed in the gnu tools ecosystem :)

[danslo]

@evert That may very well be (maybe for some people it's being pulled in as a dependency for another package).

If installing freetype doesn't work, can you give us a gist with the contents of brew list?

[danslo]

What I believe is going on is this:

• HHVM requires newer freetype
• PHP installed through homebrew depends on libpng
• libpng depends on freetype

What ends up happening is people that installed PHP through homebrew have the proper dependencies, and others do not. I've updated the wiki to hold this dependency. I'll bump @mcuadros to update his formula.

[evert]

brew uninstall freetype && brew install freetype unfortunately did not fix that.

My limited understanding is that brew packages are supposed to install in /usr/local

However, even after (re-)installing freetype using brew, the file that it looks for first has this path:

/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:32:22: fatal error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory

Do you guys know any way I can force brew to use the one from /use/local (provided my assumptions are correct).

[danslo]

We definitely needed that dependency, so the wiki and homebrew update should still be ok.

It's quite curious that installing that did not fix your problem though. The build should always be looking into that directory first, due to cmake setting: -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/local/include:/usr/include" \.

[evert]

/usr/X11R6 was a symlink to /opt/X11. This probably happened while installing XQuartz.

I removed the symlinks and now re-trying the build.

[mcuadros]

now is fixed on brew, thanks @danslo

[evert]

Removing quartz indeed fixed my problem. Perhaps it's worth making a note of this?

[danslo]

@evert: I think the problem is that pkg-config is reporting that X11R6 directory.

However, /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc should be providing it with proper paths...

[scannell]

I'm going to close this as there's no action for us to take -- feel free to continue the discussion here. Thanks @danslo!

[evert]

K I'm not entirely sure what that implies for me @danslo :)

I do think other people can run into this that have quartz installed before installing hhvm.

[demon]

I've got the package working just fine, so I think we've solved this pretty well.

I've still got some unrelated problems when building from source, but they're...not related to this :)

[smoya]

I fixed this problem removing the links that @evert said.

Thanks.

[eistrati]

I had the same error, so thanks a lot for making my life easier by identifying the Quartz conflict! I was able to install hhvm 2.4.0 after removing Quartz as stated here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4162096