Failed updating 1 target

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hey there, I gave compiling this another attempt and I actually got further, this time I got the following error:

...updating 40 targets...
gcc.link.dll bin.v2/libs/ui/build/gcc-12/debug/threading-multi/visibility-hidden/libboost_ui.so.1.79.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwx_gtk2u_webview-3.0: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I have installed wxwidgets-gtk3 after noticing this error, but nothing has changed. Why is this? Thanks!

[kosenko]

What OS you are using? uname -a? What result of wx-config --libs command? Do you have installed libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev package? Missing file is a part of wxWidgets build. Please ensure that it exists. It looks like you are using GTK+2/wxGTK2 instead of GTK+3/wxGTK3 for some reason. Also, it is possible to disable boost::ui::web_widget class under Linux if nothing else not works:

diff --git a/build/Jamfile.v2 b/build/Jamfile.v2
index 3633432..125a243 100644
--- a/build/Jamfile.v2
+++ b/build/Jamfile.v2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if [ modules.peek : UNIX ]
         CXXFLAGS  = [ SHELL $(WX_CONFIG)" --cxxflags" ] ;
         CXXFLAGS  = [ MATCH "(.*)[\n]" : $(CXXFLAGS) ] ;

-        LINKFLAGS = [ SHELL $(WX_CONFIG)" --libs webview,adv,core,base" ] ;
+        LINKFLAGS = [ SHELL $(WX_CONFIG)" --libs adv,core,base" ] ;
         LINKFLAGS = [ MATCH "(.*)[\n]" : $(LINKFLAGS) ] ;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/web_widget.cpp b/src/web_widget.cpp
index b274262..6f55bc8 100644
--- a/src/web_widget.cpp
+++ b/src/web_widget.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@

 #include <wx/webview.h>

+#undef wxUSE_WEBVIEW
+#define wxUSE_WEBVIEW 0
+
 namespace boost {
 namespace ui    {

[UltraBlackLinux]

What OS you are using? uname -a? What result of wx-config --libs command? Do you have installed libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev package? Missing file is a part of wxWidgets build. Please ensure that it exists. It looks like you are using GTK+2/wxGTK2 instead of GTK+3/wxGTK3 for some reason. Also, it is possible to disable boost::ui::web_widget class under Linux if nothing else not works

Oh sorry, my bad. I should have provided that info.

uname -a
Linux lolcat 5.18.13-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:05:06 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
... Garuda Linux
wx-config --libs
-pthread -lwx_gtk3u_xrc-3.2 -lwx_gtk3u_html-3.2 -lwx_gtk3u_qa-3.2 -lwx_gtk3u_core-3.2 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.2 -lwx_baseu_net-3.2 -lwx_baseu-3.2

The libraries are there, just not used for some reason. I'm gonna see if I can change that gtk2 to gtk3.

Another weird thing: If I use my systemwide wx-config binary, the build process just fails since it can't find the necessary libraries (headers), so this only works with manually built wxwidgets.

[kosenko]

It seems you are trying to use wxWidgets dev build package with your own wxWidgets build. It is possible to switch to wxGTK3 with configure option --with-gtk=3. GTK+ could have problems with GtkWebKit with not compatible version. You should either use wxWidgets package and don't set WX_CONFIG variable. Or remove wxWidgets dev package from your OS.

[UltraBlackLinux]

It seems you are trying to use wxWidgets dev build package with your own wxWidgets build. It is possible to switch to wxGTK3 with configure option --with-gtk=3. GTK+ could have problems with GtkWebKit with not compatible version. You should either use wxWidgets package and don't set WX_CONFIG variable. Or remove wxWidgets dev package from your OS.

I don't understand this. I tried configure with --with-gtk=3 and --enable-webview but this just doesn't work at all. Please try to do some actions shenanigans because I for whatever reason can't build this no matter what. I want to use this library so bad. I hope this works at some point.

[kosenko]

Remove wxWidgets build directory and make clean build, see configure log setting and log messages before run make, especially related to webview. wxWebView requires additional packages to build. Sorry, but I know nothing about Arch Linux based distributions. If it doesn't help, you can disable boost::ui::web_widget and try it enable later (with clean build).

[UltraBlackLinux]

I found the issue... I might have tried the first build with my system-wide wxwidgets installation (Which didn't support gtk3 nor webview), so when I tried it with the wxwidgets I downloaded it wouldn't compile, since I apparently needed to delete the bin.v2 folder...

I never read about that anywhere once.

Thanks for trying to help.