Trouble building and running on ArchLinux

steveunixson commented 2 years ago

Using a master branch, i've encoutered several problems

Filer/src/extattrs.cpp:30:25

error: ‘XATTR_NAMESPACE’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘XATTR_NAME_MAX’?
   30 |   namespacedAttr.append(XATTR_NAMESPACE).append(".").append(attribute);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                         XATTR_NAME_MAX

I've tried to change it as compiler suggests and then it builds fine but then I get a runtime error

Failed qApp->installTranslator(qtTranslator)

at src/filer.cpp 26:11

probonopd commented 1 year ago

While in principle Filer should compile on Linux, we are not testing this regularly. The best way to try out Filer currently is to run a helloSystem Live ISO.

Looks like these are two separate isssues

Is XATTR_NAMESPACE not supported on Linux? What is its equivalent on Linux? I thought we had solved this in https://github.com/helloSystem/Filer/pull/37
Why does Failed qApp->installTranslator(qtTranslator) happen and why does it result in a runtime error on Linux?

Seems like some people are using Filer on Linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/wcmm6y/osx_style_global_menu_in_kde_plasma_a_kind_of/

Possibly they have used this fork: https://github.com/mszoek/Filer Does that one compile for you on Linux? If yes, then we have broken it since...

At this time, I am not investing (much) time into Linux support proactively, but at least having it build and run on Linux would be good, and I'd appreciate pull requests in this direction.

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Think we have fixed this since. Please retry and please comment here in case the issue persists. Thanks!

helloSystem / Filer

Trouble building and running on ArchLinux #145