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Build dependencies missing #124

Closed jeremiah closed 8 years ago

jeremiah commented 8 years ago

The build instructions would likely be improved if there was information on what build dependencies are required to build astroid. I'm currently getting a message saying;

Checking for gtkmm-3.0 >= 3.10... no
gtkmm-3.0 >= 3.10 not found.

And on my system, there is lots of gtkmm to be found; 

$ sylph.jeremiahfoster.com:~/GitHub/astroid>  show gtkmm-3.0
8 results found.
Results 1-8:
100% libgtkmm-3.0-dbg - C++ wrappers for GTK+ (debug symbols)
98% libgtkmm-3.0-dev - C++ wrappers for GTK+ (development files)
92% libgtkmm-3.0-doc - C++ wrappers for GTK+ (documentation)
92% libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 - C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libraries)
72% libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-doc - C++ binding of GtkSourceView
71% libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0v5 - C++ binding of GtkSourceView
69% libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-dbg - C++ binding of GtkSourceView - debugging symbols
68% libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-dev - C++ binding of GtkSourceView - development files
gauteh commented 8 years ago

Hi,

gtkmm is the official name of the package (http://www.gtkmm.org/en/). But different distros ship it under different names. Some distros also split binary parts of the package (the .so) and the headers in -dev packages. But all of this varies, the only thing constant is the official name.

I think therefore that it is better to keep the build system to only use gtkmm, and rather put distro-specific information in the wiki: https://github.com/gauteh/astroid/wiki/Compiling-and-Installing#distribution-specific-information

Please feel free to update the wiki if you think something is missing, or could be useful to others.

In your case, unless you already figured it out, you probably need libgtkmm-3.0-dev.

Regards, gaute

jeremiah commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I'll assemble the dependencies I needed to get astroid running on my system and put that on the wiki. I'll leave this issue open until it is complete.

gauteh commented 8 years ago

Jeremiah C. Foster writes on May 2, 2016 11:30:

Thanks for the reply. I'll assemble the dependencies I needed to get astroid running on my system and put that on the wiki. I'll leave this issue open until it is complete.

Ok, thanks for testing out astroid!

jeremiah commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/gauteh/astroid/wiki/Debian