Unable to build powergate CLI

[chaitanyaprem]

Followed the steps mentioned in https://docs.textile.io/powergate/ to clone and build Powergate CLI.
I am facing following errors and unable to proceed.

My environment is M1 macbook Pro with golang version go version go1.18 darwin/amd64

On running make install-pow following error is displayed.

go: downloading github.com/marten-seemann/qtls-go1-17 v0.1.0-rc.1
go: downloading github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions v1.0.1
# github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/internal/qtls
../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go@v0.21.2/internal/qtls/go118.go:5:13: cannot use "quic-go doesn't build on Go 1.18 yet." (untyped string constant) as int value in variable declaration
make: *** [install-pow] Error 2

Thought i found a workaround mentioned here ipfs/kubo#8819 .
Tried to proceed with it but I am running into the below error. Looks like go-ipfs version used is 0.8 which is very old and using some flags which have been removed in later dependency (quic-go).

CGO_ENABLED=0 go install -ldflags="-X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.GitSummary=v2.6.2-6-gb82b011-dirty -X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.Version=git -X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.BuildDate=2022-05-12T00:08:11Z -X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.GitCommit=b82b011 -X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.GitBranch=master -X github.com/textileio/powergate/v2/buildinfo.GitState=dirty" ./cmd/pow
# github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/core/node/libp2p
../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs@v0.8.0/core/node/libp2p/transport.go:21:7: undefined: quic.RetireBugBackwardsCompatibilityMode
make: *** [install-pow] Error 2

[jsign]

The newest libp2p has a limitation (I guess is temporal) for people compiling with Go v1.18.x, which is a release from some weeks ago.

You need to compile with v1.17.x or older. (i.e: I tried with v1.17.8 now and didn't have an issue compiling)
Be sure that your git repo is clean (no changes).

[chaitanyaprem]

Thanks, will try on a 1.17 version then.

But, is it the lipp2p which is causing the issue? Because i don't see an open issue for the same under libp2p.
And the issue i have referenced above seems to have addressed this in go-ipfs and libp2p.
I see that go-ipfs-0.8 is mentioned as dependency in powergate which is an older version and hence must be having this limitation whereas the latest is 0.12.

[jsign]

Yes, it's libp2p since the error:

../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go@v0.21.2/internal/qtls/go118.go:5:13: cannot use "quic-go doesn't build on Go 1.18 yet." (untyped string constant) as int value in variable declaration

Comes from libp2p.

Correct, this repo isn't using the latest version of libp2p.

[jsolly]

I ran into this error and initially logged the issue in the wrong repo.

After installing Go 1.17.13 the error went away.

[jsolly]

@jsign I forked this repo and added a note to the repo's home page about the Go versions that are supported in https://github.com/jsolly/powergate/commit/bda20f6bbd0e55d23dcd41ac2e6ab9b14d5a6584

I noticed I on the PR page that it didn't have the option to choose my fork for a PR. What's the process for a contributor to open a PR?

I checked the Contributor doc and it is empty.

[jsign]

@jsign I forked this repo and added a note to the repo's home page about the Go versions that are supported in jsolly@bda20f6

I noticed I on the PR page that it didn't have the option to choose my fork for a PR. What's the process for a contributor to open a PR?

I checked the Contributor doc and it is empty.

There isn't a special process to create a PR, you should be able to created by clicking the "open pull request" button in your fokred repo:

BTW, thanks for the contribution.

[jsolly]

Thanks! I opened a new PR to update the home page with information about installing Go.
#893

[jsign]

Closed by #893