macOS: glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions failed

[niklaut]

I'm following the install instruction on macOS 13.6 on an ARM64 MBA M2.
I installed the Homebrew and Vulkan SDK successfully. Cloned the scopehal-apps and set the exports correctly (also verified the paths).

cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/opt/homebrew;/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp"
make -j12

experiences multiple errors during build:

[ 85%] Linking CXX executable Primitives
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-latk-1.0', '-latkmm-1.6', '-lcairo-gobject', '-lcairomm-1.0', '-lgdk-3', '-lgdkmm-3.0', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgiomm-2.4', '-lglibmm-2.4', '-lgtk-3', '-lgtkmm-3.0', '-lpangomm-1.4', '-lsigc-2.0'
    ERROR: glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions failed
...
[ 88%] Linking CXX executable Filters
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-latk-1.0', '-latkmm-1.6', '-lcairo-gobject', '-lcairomm-1.0', '-lgdk-3', '-lgdkmm-3.0', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgiomm-2.4', '-lglibmm-2.4', '-lgtk-3', '-lgtkmm-3.0', '-lpangomm-1.4', '-lsigc-2.0'
    ERROR: glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions failed

[100%] Linking CXX executable ngscopeclient
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-lcairo', '-lcairomm-1.0', '-lsigc-2.0'
[100%] Built target ngscopeclient
make: *** [all] Error 2

But it does produce a ngscopeclient binary, which then fails with the same error.

$ ./src/ngscopeclient/ngscopeclient
    ERROR: glfwGetRequiredInstanceExtensions failed

I tried googling this error, but my complete lack of graphics understanding (I work on microcontrollers) makes this difficult to fix.
For example: I tried export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=$VULKAN_SDK/etc/vulkan/icd.d/MoltenVK_icd.json from here, but that did nothing.

Is this because of my own config? Maybe a conflicting homebrew install?

Output of `brew list`

$ brew list
==> Formulae
abseil				fastcdr				gtkmm3				libogg				libzip				openjpeg			sdl2
adwaita-icon-theme		fastdds				gts				libomp				lima				openldap			sigrok-cli
ant				fastddsgen			harfbuzz			libpng				little-cms2			openssl@1.1			six
aom				ffmpeg				hicolor-icon-theme		libqalculate			llvm@16				openssl@3			snappy
aribb24				flac				hidapi				librist				lua				opus				speex
arm-gcc-bin@12			flock				highway				librsvg				luajit				p11-kit				sqlite
arm-gcc-bin@9			fontconfig			hiredis				libsamplerate			lz4				pango				srt
arm-gcc-xpack@12		foonathan-memory		hunspell			libsigc++@2			lzo				pangomm@2.46			svt-av1
asio				freetype			icu4c				libsigrok			m4				pcre				tcl-tk
assimp				frei0r				imath				libsigrokdecode			mavsdk				pcre2				telnet
astyle				fribidi				isl				libslirp			mbedtls				picocom				tesseract
atk				gcc				jasper				libsndfile			md4c				pixman				texinfo
atkmm@2.28			gd				jpeg-turbo			libsodium			meson				pkg-config			theora
autoconf			gdbm				jpeg-xl				libsoxr				mosquitto			protobuf			tinyxml2
automake			gdk-pixbuf			jsoncpp				libssh				mpdecimal			px4-sim-jmavsim			tree
boost				genromfs			kconfig-frontends		libssh2				mpfr				py3cairo			uchardet
brotli				gettext				lame				libtasn1			mpg123				pygobject3			unbound
c-ares				giflib				leptonica			libtiff				mpv				python-certifi			vapoursynth
ca-certificates			glew				libarchive			libtool				mujs				python-setuptools		vde
cairo				glfw				libass				libunibreak			mutagen				python@3.11			webp
cairomm@1.14			glib				libavif				libunistring			ncurses				python@3.12			wget
capstone			glibmm@2.66			libb2				libusb				netpbm				python@3.8			x264
catch2				gmp				libbluray			libuv				nettle				qalculate-gtk			x265
ccache				gnu-sed				libcerf				libvidstab			ninja				qemu				xorgproto
cjson				gnu-tar				libelf				libvmaf				nmap				qt				xvid
cloc				gnuplot				libepoxy			libvorbis			node				qt@5				xz
cmake				gnutls				libevent			libvpx				numpy				radare2				yaml-cpp
colima				gobject-introspection		libftdi				libwebsockets			open-ocd			rav1e				yarn
confuse				gradle				libgit2@1.6			libx11				openblas			re2				yt-dlp
curl				graphite2			libidn2				libxau				opencore-amr			readline			z3
dav1d				graphviz			liblinear			libxcb				openexr				ripgrep				zeromq
dbus				grpc				libmng				libxdmcp			openjdk				rtmpdump			zimg
double-conversion		gsettings-desktop-schemas	libmpc				libxext				openjdk@11			rubberband			zstd
dtc				gtk+3				libnghttp2			libxrender			openjdk@17			rust

==> Casks
1password		bettertouchtool		gitx			istat-menus		multipass		segger-jlink		sublime-text		vlc
aldente			discord			google-drive		iterm2			obsidian		slack			utm			xquartz
android-platform-tools	docker			gtkwave			kicad			saleae-logic		spotify			visual-studio-code	zerotier-one

[azonenberg]

The errors during build are due to a long-standing (but low priority) bug in which some unit tests try to initialize Vulkan during compilation during what's supposed to just be a pass to enumerate what test cases are available. But for some reason this init (which normally just wastes a bit of time) is failing.

The failure with ngscopeclient and the tests is the same, MoltenVK isn't initializing right. Try running ngscopeclient with --debug to dump more information that might help us narrow down the problem.

• @lainy @602p

[niklaut]

Hm ok, interesting. If I check the "System Global Installation" checkbox in the Vulkan SDK installer and then not export any paths, the build succeeds. Or maybe the reboot fixed it? Well… it's running now, thank you!

ngscopeclient --debug output

$ ./src/ngscopeclient/ngscopeclient --debug
OMP_WAIT_POLICY not set to PASSIVE
Re-exec'ing with correct environment
Initializing Vulkan
    VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2: supported
    VK_EXT_debug_utils: supported
    Loader/API support available for Vulkan 1.3
    Vulkan 1.2 support available, requesting it
    Initializing glfw 3.3.8 Cocoa NSGL EGL OSMesa dynamic
    GLFW required extensions:
        VK_KHR_surface
        VK_EXT_metal_surface
    Physical devices:
        Device 0: Apple M2
            API version:            0x004020e7 (0.1.2.231)
            Driver version:         0x000027d8 (0.0.2.2008)
            Vendor ID:              106b
            Device ID:              d0603ef
            Device type:            Integrated GPU
            int64:                  yes
            int16:                  yes (allowed in SSBOs)
            int8:                   yes (allowed in SSBOs)
            Max image dim 2D:       16384
            Max storage buf range:  4095 MB
            Max mem alloc:          1024 MB
            Max compute shared mem: 32 KB
            Max compute grp count:  1073741824 x 1073741824 x 1073741824
            Max compute invocs:     1024
            Max compute grp size:   1024 x 1024 x 1024
            Memory types:
                Type 0
                    Heap index: 0
                    Device local
                Type 1
                    Heap index: 0
                    Device local
                    Host visible
                    Host coherent
                    Host cached
                Type 2
                    Heap index: 0
                    Device local
                    Host visible
                    Host cached
                Type 3
                    Heap index: 0
                    Device local
                    Lazily allocated
            Memory heaps:
                Heap 0
                    Size: 24 GB
                    Device local
        Selected device 0
            Queue families (4 total)
                Queue type 0
                    Queue count:          1
                    Timestamp valid bits: 64
                    Graphics
                    Compute
                    Transfer
                Queue type 1
                    Queue count:          1
                    Timestamp valid bits: 64
                    Graphics
                    Compute
                    Transfer
                Queue type 2
                    Queue count:          1
                    Timestamp valid bits: 64
                    Graphics
                    Compute
                    Transfer
                Queue type 3
                    Queue count:          1
                    Timestamp valid bits: 64
                    Graphics
                    Compute
                    Transfer
            Driver: vk::DriverId::eMoltenvk
            Enabling 64-bit integer support
            Enabling 16-bit integer support
            Enabling 16-bit integer support for SSBOs
            Enabling 8-bit integer support
            Enabling 8-bit integer support for SSBOs
            Device has VK_KHR_portability_subset, requesting it
            Device has VK_KHR_push_descriptor, requesting it
            Device has VK_EXT_memory_budget, requesting it
            Using type 1 for pinned host memory
            Using type 0 for card-local memory
            Sorted queues:
                Family=0 Index=0 Flags=00000007
                Family=1 Index=0 Flags=00000007
                Family=2 Index=0 Flags=00000007
                Family=3 Index=0 Flags=00000007
            QueueManager creating family=0 index=0 name=g_vkTransferQueue

    vkFFT version: 1.3.2
Detecting CPU features...
QueueManager creating family=1 index=0 name=g_mainWindow.render
Using ImGui version 1.89.8
QueueManager creating family=2 index=0 name=FilterGraphExecutor[0].queue
QueueManager creating family=3 index=0 name=FilterGraphExecutor[5].queue
Unable to open recently used instruments file
Unable to open recently used files list (bad file)
ngscopeclient(51832,0x1e31ee080) malloc: tiny_free_list_remove_ptr: Internal invariant broken (next ptr of prev): ptr=0x13864a510, prev_next=0x0
ngscopeclient(51832,0x1e31ee080) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
[1]    51832 abort      ./src/ngscopeclient/ngscopeclient --debug