Error executing mrc: Could not open data file

[Jorisvansteenbrugge]

I have been trying to install alphafill locally and everything seems to be working untill I try to run cmake --build .. The error I am getting is as follows:

root@9ddaccf23860:/opt/alphafill/build# cmake --build .
[  3%] Generating alphafill_rsrc.obj, ALL
Error executing mrc: Could not open data file
gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/alphafill.dir/build.make:74: alphafill_rsrc.obj] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:843: CMakeFiles/alphafill.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:101: all] Error 2

I have tried building the software without mrc, but that did not work either. Could you help me solve this issue? I would love to give this very interesting software a try!

The command before that seems to detect the dependencies correctly:

root@9ddaccf23860:/opt/alphafill/build# cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.3.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.3.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Looking for C++ include filesystem
-- Looking for C++ include filesystem - found
-- Performing Test CXX_FILESYSTEM_NO_LINK_NEEDED
-- Performing Test CXX_FILESYSTEM_NO_LINK_NEEDED - Success
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.2") 
-- The library and auxiliary files will be installed in /root/.local
-- Found Mrc: /usr/local/bin/mrc (found version "1.3.5") 
Using resources compiled with /usr/local/bin/mrc
-- Found Boost: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.74.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found suitable version "1.74.0", minimum required is "1.70.0") found components: system date_time regex 
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (found version "1.2.11") 
-- Found Boost: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.74.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.74.0") found components: program_options 
-- Checking for module 'libpq'
--   Found libpq, version 15.1
-- Checking for module 'libpqxx>=7.2'
--   Found libpqxx, version 7.7.4
-- Looking for dirfd
-- Looking for dirfd - found
-- Looking for sysconf
-- Looking for sysconf - found
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /opt/alphafill/build

I have written a Dockerfile in case you want to reproduce the issue :+1:

FROM ubuntu:22.04

RUN apt update
RUN apt upgrade -y
RUN apt install -y build-essential git cmake
RUN apt install -y g++ autotools-dev libicu-dev libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive TZ=Etc/UTC apt-get -y install tzdata
RUN apt install -y wget lsb-core curl

RUN git clone https://github.com/mhekkel/mrc.git /tmp/mrc
RUN cd /tmp/mrc; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; cmake --build .; cmake --install .

RUN git clone https://github.com/mhekkel/libzeep /tmp/libzeep
RUN cd /tmp/libzeep; mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. -DZEEP_BUILD_TESTS=ON; cmake --build .; ctest; cmake --install .

RUN git clone https://github.com/PDB-REDO/libcifpp.git /tmp/libcifpp
RUN cd /tmp/libcifpp; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; cmake --build . --config Release; ctest -C release; cmake --install .

RUN sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
RUN wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc |  apt-key add -
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y postgresql-all

RUN git clone https://github.com/jtv/libpqxx.git /tmp/libpqxx
RUN cd /tmp/libpqxx; git checkout 7.7.4; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install

RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -
RUN echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y yarn

RUN apt install -y pkg-config
RUN git clone https://github.com/PDB-REDO/alphafill /opt/alphafill
RUN cd /opt/alphafill; yarn; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; cmake --build .; cmake --install .

[mhekkel]

The current alphafill trunk is out of date / out of sync with the latest release of libcifpp.

You can either try with an older (version < 5) of libcifpp, or you should use the develop branch from alphafill.

We'll release that develop branch soon. Still waiting for our paper to be published.

[Jorisvansteenbrugge]

Thank you for getting back to me @mhekkel. While I don't mind being patient, I just wanted to point out that neither an older version of libcifpp or the develop branch of alphafill yields a successful install on my machine.

[mhekkel]

You've tried at a time when I was busy merging two different versions of alphafill while simultaneously trying to upgrade libcifpp.

I think I succeeded, by now. There is a version 2.0.0-rc1 of alphafill that works with libcifpp 5.0.4. Well, I'm testing it. Should be stable by Thursday.