Build fails: ERROR at //BUILD.gn:5:1: Can't load input file. import("build/config/gclient_args.gni")

[yurivict]

Build is attempted according to .

Build fails:

===>  Building for dart-3.5.1
cd /usr/ports/lang/dart/work/sdk-3.5.1 &&  /usr/bin/env XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/ports/lang/dart/work  XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/usr/ports/lang/dart/work  XDG_CACHE_HOME=/usr/ports/lang/dart/work/.cache  HOME=/usr/ports/lang/dart/work PATH=/usr/local/libexec/ccache:/usr/ports/lang/dart/work/.bin:/home/yuri/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/ports/lang/dart/work/.pkgconfig:/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig MK_DEBUG_FILES=no MK_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=no SHELL=/bin/sh NO_LINT=YES PREFIX=/usr/local  LOCALBASE=/usr/local  CC="cc" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe  -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing "  CPP="cpp" CPPFLAGS=""  LDFLAGS=" -fstack-protector-strong " LIBS=""  CXX="c++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing  " CCACHE_DIR="/tmp/.ccache" BSD_INSTALL_PROGRAM="install  -s -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_LIB="install  -s -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_SCRIPT="install  -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_DATA="install  -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_MAN="install  -m 444" ./tools/build.py --mode release --arch x64 create_sdk
ERROR at //BUILD.gn:5:1: Can't load input file.
import("build/config/gclient_args.gni")
^-------------------------------------
Unable to load:
  /usr/ports/lang/dart/work/sdk-3.5.1/build/config/gclient_args.gni
I also checked in the secondary tree for:
  /usr/ports/lang/dart/work/sdk-3.5.1/build/secondary/build/config/gclient_args.gni
Command failed: /usr/ports/lang/dart/work/sdk-3.5.1/buildtools/gn gen out/ReleaseX64 --args=target_os="freebsd" host_cpu="x64" target_cpu="x64" dart_target_arch="x64" dart_use_compressed_pointers=false dart_use_crashpad=false dart_snapshot_kind="app-jit" bssl_use_clang_integrated_as=true is_debug=false is_release=true is_product=false dart_debug=false dart_runtime_mode="develop" exclude_kernel_service=false is_clang=true dart_vm_code_coverage=false is_asan=false is_lsan=false is_msan=false is_tsan=false is_ubsan=false is_qemu=false dart_platform_sdk=false dart_stripped_binary="exe.stripped/dart" dart_precompiled_runtime_stripped_binary="exe.stripped/dart_precompiled_runtime_product" gen_snapshot_stripped_binary="exe.stripped/gen_snapshot_product" analyze_snapshot_binary="exe.stripped/analyze_snapshot" wasm_opt_stripped_binary="exe.stripped/wasm-opt" use_rbe=false verify_sdk_hash=true dart_version_git_info=true
buildtools/ninja/ninja -C out/ReleaseX64 create_sdk

The file build/config/gclient_args.gni referenced in BUILD.gn isn't in the repository.

Version: 3.5.1

[dart-github-bot]

Summary: The user is attempting to build the Dart SDK from source but the build fails because the file build/config/gclient_args.gni is missing from the repository. This file is referenced in the BUILD.gn file, which is responsible for configuring the build process.

[athomas]

Did you follow these steps to get the source or just clone the repo from GH? https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/docs/Building.md#source

build/config/gclient_args.gni file isn't checked in, it's generated from DEPS. So if you have a plain checkout not generated by gclient, it wouldn't have a necessary dependencies to do a build.

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