[Bug] Can't launch on wayland

[Yopaman]

Operating System

Linux

What's the issue you encountered?

ImHex doesn't start on a Hyprland, a Wayland based compositor.

The logs are :

[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Welcome to ImHex 1.33.2!
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Compiled using commit Unknown@Unknown
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Running on Linux 6.6.36 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 27 11:49:15 UTC 2024 (x86_64)
[17:57:42] [ERROR] [main | Main]               GLFW Error [65548] : Wayland: The platform does not support setting the window opacity
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Native scaling set to: 1.0
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]               ImHex crashed during initial setup!
Error: Received signal 'SIGSEGV' (11)
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]                 imhex(_ZN3hex10stacktrace13getStackTraceEv+0x5a) [0x433dda]
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]                 imhex(_ZN3hex5crash11handleCrashERKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE+0x2c) [0x42669c]
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]                 imhex() [0x426d41]
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]                 imhex() [0x426fe4]
[17:57:42] [FATAL] [main | Main]                 /nix/store/dbwp0scbb0rk78m636sb7cvycz8xzgyh-glibc-2.39-52/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3ff40) [0x7fcb9e051f40]
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Exit task 'Saving settings' finished successfully
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Exit task 'Prepare exit' finished successfully
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Exit task 'Unloading plugins' finished successfully
[17:57:42] [INFO]  [main | Main]               Exit task 'Deleting old files' finished successfully

How can the issue be reproduced?

Launch ImHex.

ImHex Version

1.33.2

ImHex Build Type

• [ ] Nightly or built from sources

Installation type

NixOS package

Additional context?

No response

[jumanji144]

Please try on the newest 1.35.3

[derefd]

Fixed after following this.

Working overlay until the upstream changes propagated:

{
  nixpkgs,
  system,
  ...
}: let
  pkgs = import nixpkgs {
    inherit system;
    overlays = [
      (self: super: {
        glfw = super.glfw.overrideAttrs (finalAttrs: previousAttrs:
          with super; {
            postPatch = lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''
              substituteInPlace src/wl_init.c \
                --replace-fail "libxkbcommon.so.0" "${lib.getLib libxkbcommon}/lib/libxkbcommon.so.0" \
                --replace-fail "libdecor-0.so.0" "${lib.getLib libdecor}/lib/libdecor-0.so.0" \
                --replace-fail "libwayland-client.so.0" "${lib.getLib wayland}/lib/libwayland-client.so.0" \
                --replace-fail "libwayland-cursor.so.0" "${lib.getLib wayland}/lib/libwayland-cursor.so.0" \
                --replace-fail "libwayland-egl.so.1" "${lib.getLib wayland}/lib/libwayland-egl.so.1"
            '';
          });
        imhex = super.imhex.overrideAttrs (finalAttrs: previousAttrs: let
          patterns_version = "1.35.3";
          patterns_src = super.fetchFromGitHub {
            owner = "WerWolv";
            repo = "ImHex-Patterns";
            rev = "ImHex-v${patterns_version}";
            hash = "sha256-h86qoFMSP9ehsXJXOccUK9Mfqe+DVObfSRT4TCtK0rY=";
          };
        in rec {
          version = "1.35.3";
          src = super.fetchFromGitHub {
            fetchSubmodules = true;
            owner = "WerWolv";
            repo = previousAttrs.pname;
            rev = "v${version}";
            hash = "sha256-8vhOOHfg4D9B9yYgnGZBpcjAjuL4M4oHHax9ad5PJtA=";
          };
          nativeBuildInputs = with super; [
            autoPatchelfHook
            cmake
            llvm
            python3
            perl
            pkg-config
            rsync
          ];
          autoPatchelfIgnoreMissingDeps = ["*.hexpluglib"];
          appendRunpaths = [
            (super.lib.makeLibraryPath [super.libGL])
            "${placeholder "out"}/lib/imhex/plugins"
          ];
          postInstall = ''
            mkdir -p $out/share/imhex
            rsync -av --exclude="*_schema.json" ${patterns_src}/{constants,encodings,includes,magic,patterns} $out/share/imhex
          '';
        });
      })
    ];
  };
in {
  home = {
    packages = with pkgs; [imhex];
  };
}

[WerWolv]

Glad it worked. I'll close this since we don't officially support NixOS