Meson Dependency "gobject-introspection-1.0" not found

[firefly2442]

Bug report

Describe the bug

I ran into an issue where the environment I had was missing a package. I found this page on Stackoverflow that solved the problem.

#9 2.859 The Meson build system
#9 2.859 Version: 0.56.2
#9 2.859 Source dir: /libvips-8.14.1
#9 2.859 Build dir: /libvips-8.14.1/build
#9 2.859 Build type: native build
#9 2.859 Project name: vips
#9 2.859 Project version: 8.14.1
#9 2.859 C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 10.2.1 "cc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110")
#9 2.859 C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.35.2
#9 2.859 C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 10.2.1 "c++ (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110")
#9 2.859 C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.35.2
#9 2.859 Host machine cpu family: x86_64
#9 2.859 Host machine cpu: x86_64
#9 2.859 Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.66.8
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.66.8
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.66.8
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency gmodule-no-export-2.0 found: YES 2.66.8
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency expat found: YES 2.2.10
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency threads found: YES
#9 2.859 Library m found: YES
#9 2.859 Compiler for C supports link arguments -Wl,-z,nodelete: YES 
#9 2.859 Compiler for C supports function attribute visibility:hidden: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking if "Has vector arithmetic" with dependency -lm compiles: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking if "Has signed constants in vector templates" with dependency -lm compiles: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "vsnprintf" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "_aligned_malloc" with dependency -lm: NO 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "posix_memalign" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "memalign" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "cbrt" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "hypot" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "atan2" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "asinh" with dependency -lm: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "pthread_setattr_default_np" with dependency threads: YES 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency zlib found: YES 1.2.11
#9 2.859 Did not find CMake 'cmake'
#9 2.859 Found CMake: NO
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libgsf-1 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency fftw3 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency magickcore found: YES 6.9.11
#9 2.859 Checking whether type "struct _ImageInfo" has member "number_scenes" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "InheritException" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "AcquireExceptionInfo" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "SetImageProperty" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "SetImageExtent" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "AcquireImage" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "GetVirtualPixels" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ResetImageProfileIterator" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ResetImageAttributeIterator" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ResetImagePropertyIterator" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "MagickCoreGenesis" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "SetImageOption" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "BlobToStringInfo" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "OptimizePlusImageLayers" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "OptimizeImageTransparency" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking if "Has CMYColorspace" with dependency MagickCore compiles: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking if "Has HCLpColorspace" with dependency MagickCore compiles: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking if "GetImageMagick takes three arguments" with dependency MagickCore compiles: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ImportImagePixels" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ImagesToBlob" with dependency MagickCore: YES 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency cfitsio found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency imagequant found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency quantizr found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libexif found: YES 0.6.22
#9 2.859 Has header "exif-data.h" with dependency libexif: NO 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libjpeg found: YES 2.0.6
#9 2.859 Checking for function "jpeg_c_bool_param_supported" with dependency libjpeg: NO 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency spng found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libspng found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libpng found: YES 1.6.37
#9 2.859 Checking for function "png_set_chunk_malloc_max" with dependency libpng: YES 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libwebp found: YES 0.6.1
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libwebpmux found: YES 0.6.1
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libwebpdemux found: YES 0.6.1
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency pangocairo found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency pangoft2 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency fontconfig found: YES 2.13.1
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libtiff-4 found: YES 4.2.0
#9 2.859 Fetching value of define "COMPRESSION_WEBP" with dependency libtiff-4: 50001 
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency librsvg-2.0 found: YES 2.50.3
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency cairo found: YES 1.16.0
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency openslide found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency matio found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency lcms2 found: YES 2.12
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency openexr found: YES 2.5.4
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libopenjp2 found: YES 2.4.0
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency orc-0.4 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency pdfium found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libheif found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libjxl found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency libjxl_threads found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency poppler-glib found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency niftiio found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
#9 2.859 Run-time dependency nifti found: NO (tried cmake)
#9 2.859 Has header "sys/file.h" : YES 
#9 2.859 Has header "sys/param.h" : YES 
#9 2.859 Has header "sys/mman.h" : YES 
#9 2.859 Has header "unistd.h" : YES 
#9 2.859 Has header "io.h" : NO 
#9 2.859 Has header "direct.h" : NO 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "ngettext" : YES 
#9 2.859 Checking for function "bind_textdomain_codeset" : YES 
#9 2.859 Configuring config.h using configuration
#9 2.859 Program glib-mkenums found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-mkenums)
#9 2.859 Configuring version.h using configuration
#9 2.859 Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
#9 2.859 Program glib-genmarshal found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-genmarshal)
#9 2.859 Did not find CMake 'cmake'
#9 2.859 Found CMake: NO
#9 2.859 Build-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
#9 2.859 
#9 2.859 libvips/meson.build:45:4: ERROR: Dependency "gobject-introspection-1.0" not found, tried pkgconfig

The solution was to apt install libgirepository1.0-dev. Perhaps this should be added to the README.md as a required package?

To Reproduce

Expected behavior
It should build using the new Meson system

Environment

• node:latest (Docker)
• Vips: 8.14.1

[jcupitt]

Hi @firefly2442,

Yes, you need libgirepository1.0-dev to build with introspection. You can disable it with:

meson setup build -Dintrospection=false

so it's not a required dependency, but you're right it is enabled by default and not autodetected. I'll add a note. Thanks!

[stubkan]

I recommend adding this note, I had this blocker and it wasn't until I dug through these closed tickets and found this that I could finally build libvips on my system

[stubkan]

@jcupitt