Building GTK4 fails

[yashranjan1]

So i was following the instructions and I reached the part where i got to the following command:

gvsbuild build gtk4

Running this command gave me the following error:

(tar) Exporting glib
Building project glib (2.78.4)
[3/338] Generating gio/gdbus-daemon-generated with a custom command
FAILED: gio/gdbus-daemon-generated.h gio/gdbus-daemon-generated.c
"C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Scripts\python.exe" "gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/gdbus-codegen" "--interface-prefix" "org." "--output-directory" "gio" "--generate-c-code" "gdbus-daemon-generated" "--c-namespace" "_G" "../gio/dbus-daemon.xml"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\gtk-build\build\x64\release\glib\_gvsbuild-meson\gio\gdbus-2.0\codegen\gdbus-codegen", line 53, in <module>
    from codegen import codegen_main
  File "C:\gtk-build\build\x64\release\glib\_gvsbuild-meson\gio\gdbus-2.0\codegen\codegen_main.py", line 29, in <module>
    from . import dbustypes
  File "C:\gtk-build\build\x64\release\glib\_gvsbuild-meson\gio\gdbus-2.0\codegen\dbustypes.py", line 22, in <module>
    from . import utils
  File "C:\gtk-build\build\x64\release\glib\_gvsbuild-meson\gio\gdbus-2.0\codegen\utils.py", line 22, in <module>
    import distutils.version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
[4/338] Linking target gthread/gthread-2.0-0.dll
   Creating library gthread\gthread-2.0.lib and object gthread\gthread-2.0.exp
[6/338] Linking target gmodule/gmodule-2.0-0.dll
   Creating library gmodule\gmodule-2.0.lib and object gmodule\gmodule-2.0.exp
[7/338] Linking target gobject/gobject-2.0-0.dll
   Creating library gobject\gobject-2.0.lib and object gobject\gobject-2.0.exp
[36/338] Building translation po/fr/LC_MESSAGES/glib20-fr.mo
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\utils\builder.py", line 527, in build
    if self.__build_one(p):
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\utils\builder.py", line 663, in __build_one
    skip_deps = proj.build()
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\projects\glib.py", line 50, in build
    Meson.build(self)
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\utils\base_builders.py", line 56, in build
    self.builder.exec_ninja(params="install", working_dir=ninja_build)
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\utils\builder.py", line 985, in exec_ninja
    self.__execute(
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\pipx\pipx\venvs\gvsbuild\Lib\site-packages\gvsbuild\utils\builder.py", line 1041, in __execute
    subprocess.check_call(args, cwd=working_dir, env=env, shell=True)
  File "C:\Users\yashr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'ninja install' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Error: glib build failed

I am currently running python 3.12.2. I did a little digging and I found that distutils has been deprecated in python 3.12 but im not sure what exactly the issue is.

[danyeaw]

Hi @yashranjan1, is this with Gvsbuild 2024.3.0?

[yashranjan1]

Yes

 ⚡Yash ❯❯ gvsbuild --version
gvsbuild v2024.3.0

[Bjorn-Slettemark]

I am experiencing the same issues.

[Bjorn-Slettemark]

@danyeaw Thank you for fixing this so quickly - you've unblocked me royally!