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akiraux / Akira

Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK
GNU General Public License v3.0
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goocanvas-3 dependency not available for most distros. #689

Closed ttytm closed 2 years ago

ttytm commented 2 years ago

I would like to install Akira by compiling it from the source to use dev branches.

Unfortunately it's not possible to build Akira (also the master branch). As far as I can tell, the goocanvas-3 dependency is not available on Debian and Ubuntu based systems, so it's impossible to build. Its looks like the goocanvas-2.0 is the exact same up to date package but with another naming.

Is there a way to work around that, so I can install it from source? For example, by editing the installation files, so they look for the available package, and how would this be done?

With the new popos release, I switched from arch to pop and will keep it for some weeks. I know the goocanvas package availability wasn't a problem on arch.

Run-time dependency goocanvas-3.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)

giacomoalbe commented 2 years ago

Hi @tobealive,

I think the most viable solution is to try to build from source the main branch.

We are working at a complete rewrite of the underlying architecture, specifically the Canvas module, and the first thing that was done was to replace (completely rewrite, actually) the GooCanvas library with a custom made Vala module.

So if you try to build the main branch (which is the main development branch at the moment), you should be able to compile without problems.

If you want some more guidance on the process, I can help you in the Matrix channel.

Alecaddd commented 2 years ago

We're dropping goocanvas and we're not working on the master branch anymore. All future development is focused on the main branch, which needs a lot of work to bring it back to features parity with master.

ttytm commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply and info. The main branch works!