Package request: argos3

[Iorvethe]

Describe the package

A parallel, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics

Upstream homepage

https://www.argos-sim.info/

Source URL

https://github.com/ilpincy/argos3

License

MIT

Platforms

x86_64-linux

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[Iorvethe]

I have tried to create a derivation for it myself, but I lack the sufficient skills and have hit a few issues I am unsure how to resolve. Here’s the derivation I ended up with:

{
stdenv
, lib
, fetchFromGitHub
, cmake
, libsForQt5
# , freeimage
, freeglut
, libGLU
, lua5_3_compat
, doxygen
, graphviz
, asciidoc
}:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "argos3";
  version = "3.0.0-beta59";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "ilpincy";
    repo = "argos3";
    rev = "${version}";
    hash = "sha256-eRT9689nONoOfgpqSBecgKeEVVHjCND6rvdbvpby4lI=";
  };

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    cmake
    libsForQt5.wrapQtAppsHook
  ];

  buildInputs = [
    libsForQt5.qtbase
    # freeimage
    freeglut
    libGLU
    lua5_3_compat
    doxygen
    graphviz
    asciidoc
  ];

  cmakeFlags = [
    (lib.strings.cmakeFeature "CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR" "${src}/src")
    # I think these should be used somehow, from their doc?
    # (lib.strings.cmakeBool "ARGOS_INSTALL_LDSOCONF" false)
    # (lib.strings.cmakeBool "ARGOS_BUILD_NATIVE" true)
  ];

  meta = with lib; {
    description = "A parallel, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics";
    homepage    = "https://github.com/ilpincy/argos3";
    license     = licenses.mit;
    platforms = platforms.unix;
    maintainers = [ ];
  };
}

The current roadblock is with how to specify the source dir to CMake. The repo has src and doc sub-directories, both of which are needed for the compilation. The issue is that there is no CMakeLists.txt in the root, only in src. I tried setting the derivation’s src to point to the repo’s src, but then there is an error with doc being not found.

This seems like a trivial issue to resolve, but, as I lack the skills, I can’t get my head around it. I hope that someone more experienced may enlighten me (or be able to use that unfinished derivation).

Another issue is with freeimage, which is marked as having security issues and I don’t know how to work around this, whether there is something specific to do here or it’s only resolved at evaluation time.