solidity-flycheck requires el package to be included in source, otherwise does not work

[RusAlex]

Hello. I spent some time to set it up. And isolated the error till found what happens in the code.

Versions installed from Melpa with "package" system.

solidity-flycheck: Commit: 5f6ef3156fadae5af6f381d674d20535529a20e4
flyicheck:     Version: 20210708.1337
Commit: 21d52264aa80bfa4ede94c59e37a20fb6d033b0c
solidity-mode: Commit: Commit: 5f6ef3156fadae5af6f381d674d20535529a20e4

.emacs init file

(require 'package)
(package-initialize) ;; You might already have this line
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(package-selected-packages
   '(solidity-flycheck solidity-mode))
 )

(setq solidity-flycheck-solc-checker-active t)
(setq solidity-solc-path "/home/user/.local/bin/solc")

(add-hook 'solidity-mode-hook
          '(lambda()
             (require 'solidity-flycheck)
             (flycheck-mode +1)
             (flycheck-verify-setup)
             ))
```

then run console command emacs -nw Contract.sol emacs starts but displays the error: File mode specification error: (void-function remove-if-not)

I made some research and found that this is the function from the cl package. Then I added the line (require 'cl) on the top of solidity-flycheck.el and everything now works.

[0xDmtri]

Hi @RusAlex,

I am still getting the same error even when I added your changes. Also, my Doom is complaining on (require 'cl), saying its deprecated and suggest to use "cl-lib" instead. That's my .config. Would appreciate any help, thanks!

;; Solidity config
(require 'solidity-mode)
;; (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode)
(setq solidity-solc-path "/usr/local/bin/solc")
(setq solidity-solium-path "/usr/local/bin/solium")
;; (setq flycheck-solidity-solium-soliumrcfile "/Users/bad-jew/.local/solium/.soliumrc.json")

(setq solidity-flycheck-solc-checker-active t)
(setq solidity-flycheck-solium-checker-active t)
(setq flycheck-solidity-solc-addstd-contracts t)
(require 'solidity-flycheck)

(require 'company-solidity)
(add-hook 'solidity-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (set (make-local-variable 'company-backends)
                 (append '((company-solidity company-capf company-dabbrev-code))
                         company-backends))))

[LefterisJP]

If you guys manage to fix the problem and can confirm it works fine for you then a PR would be appreciated.

[RusAlex]

I am not sure about readiness/correctness my solution. Seems it does not work for some people. And even for you @LefterisJP if it works without my fix then maybe it's with my versions of environment problem not project problem