Linux 2022 Builds Failing - Two issues to note

[cybie257]

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Describe the bug

Issue #1 -
Checking wxwidgets
Checking log4cpp
Linking libliquid
Linking libxlsxwriter
make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:57: libxlsxwriter] Error 2

Issue #2 -
sudo apt-get install g++ gcc build-essential libgtk-3-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev freeglut3-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libsdl2-dev libavutil-dev libavresample-dev libportmidi-dev libzstd-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libltc-dev liblua5.3-dev wget git cbp2make
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package libavresample-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libavresample-dev' has no installation candidate

To Reproduce
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1. Fresh Install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Issue seen on Latest Mint Linux, Verified on Fresh Install of Ubuntu 22.04 downloaded and updated on Fri October 21, 2022)
2. For Issue # 2 - Run the command as shown in readme.linux file to get build environment setup.
3. For Issue # 1 - Build and get error

Expected behavior
Done this many times before in the past per readme without these issues.

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Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: [Ubuntu 22.04 - Latest Build]
• xLights version [2022.XX]

Additional context

1. I have found a fix for libxlsxwriter error, which allows it to proceed and work/compile into executable binaries.
   The fix for this was to go to https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter found in the dependancies.txt file, download and run make. Then I copied all the files (the entire folder, whether needed or not) to the xlights-2022-xx dependencies folder for libxlswriter. The make/build provides the files that the makefile is seeking in the dependencies/libxlsxwriter/lib/ folder
   Once these files are there on a fresh build, everything seems to move along fine without any other exit errors.

2. I have not been able to fix Issue # 2, though it seems to compile after fixing Issue Initial timing import support #1
   This Issue seems unsolvable potentially due to outdated 7:4.2.7 libavresample-dev no longer available???
   Here is the output from Synaptics under the

libavresample-dev:

Package libavresample-dev has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

NOTE: Although it compiles, I am unsure of any potential crashes/issues that may arise due to this not being installed as shown.

My guess is, if this is compiling for you just fine on a Linux box, it is possible that you have the older files for libavresample-dev, so it may be necessary to do a fresh install and run through to reproduce. This is the only thought I have as far as this not being found as I have tried other releases of source from all of 2022-xx as 2021 didn't have the libxslwriter coded in.

Please feel free to reach out if you need any additional information, or to call me dumb for something I missed :P lol.

Thanks for all you do! -Tim

[computergeek1507]

For the first issue you need to clone with submodules, "git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/smeighan/xLights.git" for the second issue the avresample package was combined in another package in newer ffmpeg used by Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36

[threedotsonedash]

This may or not be related, however I am unable to run any of the Linux App Image files beyond xLights-2022.05-x86_64.AppImage, for every subsequent App Image release after then, they complain of the following missing library files :

• /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
• /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0
• /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.

I've attached the terminal output from attempting to run xLights-2022.06-x86_64.AppImage, I've tried each release since then with similar output for the same missing libs.

xLights_terminal_2022-10-24.log

[cybie257]

For the first issue you need to clone with submodules, "git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/smeighan/xLights.git" for the second issue the avresample package was combined in another package in newer ffmpeg used by Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36

In the past, I have only had to compile from source (Zip Files provided as a single download). Chris Debenham had directed me to use that method vs any git/clone commands due to the fact that one of the issues I had in the past was due to code in progress causing an error. Ever since, and up to the end of 2021, this always worked without make failures.
I guess I would ask, is this the solution, or just a heads up on why I get these failures? I would think we would need a readme update on the readme.linux for compiling from source. The reason I compile from source is it allows me to have a good built binary made specifically for my system that doesn't crash. I'm not to keen on the appimage as it feels like there's a lot missing and lack of control, even if that doesn't make sense, lol. Thanks!

[computergeek1507]

I added some external libraries that require git clone with submodules. The readme.linux already states this. If you don't want to build master because its broken, you can always clone a tag with -b "tagName". I remove the libavresample library requirement from the readme. I am also not a fan of the AppImage, I have started working on generating a FlatPak but I haven't got it working.

[cybie257]

I added some external libraries that require git clone with submodules. The readme.linux already states this. If you don't want to build master because its broken, you can always clone a tag with -b "tagName". I remove the libavresample library requirement from the readme. I am also not a fan of the AppImage, I have started working on generating a FlatPak but I haven't got it working.

Ok, I will give it a go and see how it works out. Thanks for the feedback!

[cybie257]

I can confirm that using a build line such as:
git clone --recurse-submodules -b "2022.19" https://github.com/smeighan/xLights.git xLights
does work by linking the modules that the zip source code fails with.
Luckily I have a 12th Gen intel i9 with 24 (make -j24) threads that compiles in 2mins 43secs :) because I have found another issue, that seems related to an issue about freezing during render starting with 2022.20 :(

Please close this issue if you wish. I would only ask if there is any way to compile from the ZIP File source code to get the same results. As I see it right now, the only way to really compile to work is with the git clone option. And thanks for mentioning the tag option as I wasn't aware of that.

Thanks! -Tim