Linux Server Issues "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

[ghost]

Description

While going through Linux Build Instructions, encountered error: "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables". Still troubleshooting, although it could be helpful if the documentation were updated a bit more clearly (once I get this fixed and working, I might make a shell script to automate the entire process).

Got project working on Windows (client and server), attempting to run a TC2 server on Linux for testing/gaming purposes. I have experience with running Linux TF2 Servers, so I'm fairly familiar with the general process. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

[ghost]

Also had segmentation fault using DepotDownloader, had to use SteamCMD in order to download TF2 properly.

[melvyn2]

check the config.log, upload it here.

[ghost]

Thanks for the reply, here's the config.log.

config.log

[melvyn2]

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc: No such file or directory

You’re missing 32-bit libgcc, check your repos for it and I’ll add it to the dependencies if its missing.

[ghost]

Yeah, I believe there was 1 initial package that wasn't able to be downloaded (libtcmalloc-minimal4:i386).

The libgcc32 bit comes from the linux tf2 install wiki: On 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint run: $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install lib32z1 libncurses5:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libtinfo5:i386 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386

However, this too may be outdated, as I got this following error:

Package lib32gcc1 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: lib32gcc-s1 E: Package 'lib32gcc1' has no installation candidate

I install the replacement package, and get: lib32gcc-s1 is already the newest version (12-20220319-1ubuntu1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Also, I appreciate the quick responses.

[melvyn2]

I’ll take a look later today when I can

[ghost]

Using the errors you found in config.log, I figured out I had to run this:

sudo apt install gcc-multilib

to be able to install the 32-bit binaries. This time it got much further after running ./build.sh. It errored out on the following: configure: error: in/home/trb/team-comtress-2-main/src/thirdparty/protobuf-2.6.1': configure: error: sched_yield was not found on your system`

I'll take a look through the config.log again; I hadn't looked through it properly last time, but now I know what to look for.

[ghost]

Getting a bit further after: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib Looks like it's chugging along.

[ghost]

../../public/tier1/fmtstr.h: In member function 'void CNumStr::SetUint64(uint64)': ../../public/tier1/fmtstr.h:333:51: error: 'Q_snprintf' was not declared in this scope; did you mean 'V_snprintf'? 333 | inline void SetUint64( uint64 un64 ) { Q_snprintf( m_szBuf, sizeof(m_szBuf), "%llu", un64 ); } | ^~~~~~~~~~ | V_snprintf make: *** [Makefile:267: obj/Linux/release/exprsimplifier.o] Error 1

Seems like a duplicate of #615

[ghost]

Made a lot of progress, got server running, encountering client side "You are in insecure mode", so I'll troubleshoot that some more.

[ghost]

Started server with -insecure as a start option. Now I get

Disconnect: Server uses different class tables

[ghost]

Here's the Server IP for testing: 164.92.99.35

[ghost]

Ran login anonymous force_install_dir /hlserver/tf2 app_update 232250 validate quit

Now the TC2 Linux server says it's running on a newer version of the game. I can connect via TF2, but not TC2.

CLIENT TC2 (Windows) ] version Build Label: 4139084 # Uniquely identifies each build Network PatchVersion: 4085139 # Determines client and server compatibility Protocol version: 24 # High level network protocol version Server version: 4139084 Server AppID: 232250 Client version: 4085139 Client AppID: 440

SERVER TC2 (Linux) version Build Label: 7182415 # Uniquely identifies each build Network PatchVersion: 7182415 # Determines client and server compatibility Protocol version: 24 # High level network protocol version Server version: 7182415 Server AppID: 232250

[ghost]

Hrm, so I unzipped game_clean.zip again, and the versions of the client/server match, however I'm back to the error I see client side when attempting to connect to the server: Disconnect: Server uses different class tables

[melvyn2]

Hi, I personally hadn’t gotten the server to run before, could you document how you built and ran it?

[ghost]

Will do; I want to see if I can get it working in the first place; looks like some of the symbolic links aren't created properly (extra forward slashes, etc.). I'll let you know once I've gotten something working

[ghost]

Still haven't managed to get it working; I've tried SteamCMD, DepotDownloader, I've even tried copying the files directly from the linux box to my windows pc, and I can't manage to get a Linux Server and Windows Client working without the server uses different class tables error. Not sure what could possibly be the issue, since I literally had identical files on both systems.

Basic Process:

1. Download TF2 on the linux box via SteamCMD or DepotDownloader (after downloading dotnet requirements/packages)
2. Unzip game_clean.zip, overwrite files as instructed in the github tutorial
3. ./build.sh is still getting did you mean 'V_snprintf'? issues
4. ./link.sh is still having issues with certain files (file already exists, or can't find file /path/to//file - seems like a typo since two consecutive forward slashes)
5. When I run tf2.sh (https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Linux_dedicated_server) (Create a shell script to run the server), it runs, but still class tables mismatch.

I'm assuming the class tables issue is being caused by the V_snprintf or issues linking files. I'll see if I can fix that issue.

[melvyn2]

oh, I see what happened: you didn’t build the server all. Rather, link.sh is linking in plain tf2, as there were no tc2 files already in the game dir.

You should cherry pick fixes from here: https://github.com/mastercomfig/team-comtress-2/pull/616

[ghost]

Gotcha, I see your fixes; I guess they weren't added to main? So far just changing Q_snprintf to V_snprintf in fmtstr.h. I'll update on progress. Thanks for the quick response!

[ghost]

Also updated min to std::min in threadtools.cpp, making more progress.

[melvyn2]

You’ll see why it’s still a draft soon enough (or just read the issue :p)

Gotcha, I see your fixes; I guess they weren't added to main? So far just changing Q_snprintf to V_snprintf in fmtstr.h. I'll update on progress. Thanks for the quick response!

[ghost]

Hrm, so I should expect a segfault error on launch. Well glad I can help a bit on testing this out. It's still chugging along building, so hopefully it works out and I can help w/documentation.

[ghost]

Hrm; the Digital Ocean droplet I'm working with has a single core, and it looks like the tutorial says it took 20 minutes on a Ryzen 5 1600., which has 6 cores. I'm wondering if I should create a Linux VM locally and allocate extra cores to speed up the build process, then transfer over.

[ghost]

Had to build 3 times in a row, it kept catching things. Got this error: /home/trb/team-comtress-2-main/src/dedicated/console/TextConsoleUnix.cpp:16:10: fatal error: histedit.h: No such file or directory 16 | #include <histedit.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [dedicated_linux32.mak:505: obj_dedicated_linux32/release/TextConsoleUnix.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [games.mak:102: dedicated] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2 real 0m58.570s user 0m54.139s sys 0m3.836s

[ghost]

Fixed by using sudo apt-get install libedit-dev, apparently this resolves the issue of histedit.h missing.

[ghost]

Building: vtf Building: client_tf Building: datacache Building: dedicated ---- LINKING obj_dedicated_linux32/release/dedicated.so [release] ---- /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so when searching for -ledit /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.a when searching for -ledit /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ledit: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so when searching for -ledit collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: [../devtools/makefile_base_posix.mak:583: obj_dedicated_linux32/release/dedicated.so] Error 1 make[1]: [games.mak:102: dedicated] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2

real 0m1.008s user 0m0.770s sys 0m0.224s

[ghost]

Fixed with sudo apt-get install libedit-dev:i386. Now I get ---- LINKING EXE ../../game/srcds_linux [release] ---- /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcmalloc_minimal: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: [../devtools/makefile_base_posix.mak:595: ../../game/srcds_linux] Error 1 make[1]: [games.mak:106: dedicated_main] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2

real 0m0.971s user 0m0.695s sys 0m0.262s

[melvyn2]

Missing libtcmalloc-minimal4:i386 Did you run the dependencies command?

[ghost]

Yeah, just ran it again, got same error as before: E: Unable to locate package libtcmalloc-minimal4:i386

Edit: trb@tc2:~/team-comtress-2-main$ sudo apt-get install -y libtcmalloc-minimal4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done libtcmalloc-minimal4 is already the newest version (2.9.1-0ubuntu3). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[ghost]

Testing removing "-ltcmalloc_minimal -Wl" from the line in source_exe_posix_base.vpc completely $GCC_ExtraLinkerFlags "-Wl,--no-as-needed -ltcmalloc_minimal -Wl,--as-needed" [$LINUXALL&&!$DEDICATED]

[ghost]

Got another issue with #include <AL/al.h> not being found, fixed it by installing sudo apt-get install libopenal1:i386 libopenal1, manually as well from https://packages.debian.org/stretch/i386/libopenal-dev/download

[ghost]

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl-gnutls: No such file or directory

[ghost]

Updated this line in engine.vpc $SystemLibraries "rt;openal;curl-gnutls" [$LINUXALL] to $SystemLibraries "rt;openal;libcurl4-gnutls" [$LINUXALL]

[ghost]

Getting a strange related error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llibcurl4-gnutls: No such file or directory. Not sure why there are 2 L's in the library now.

[melvyn2]

because you shouldn't have done that change. -l<name> means "link to the library named lib<name>

[melvyn2]

Ubuntu seems to have dropped a lot of needed i386 packages. Personally I'd recommend switching to something not as breaking, like debian. As for curl-gnutls: it should be from the libcurl4-gnutls-dev:i386 package

[melvyn2]

Testing removing "-ltcmalloc_minimal -Wl" from the line in source_exe_posix_base.vpc completely

This is a bad idea, internal libs depend on tcmalloc's specific behavior

[ghost]

Gotcha, I might try another version of linux if I can't get this working. I see what you mean with -l as well. Yeah the i386 packages seem to be having more issues. I'll see about putting back -ltcmalloc_minimal.

[ghost]

ran sudo apt install mesa-common-dev for missing gl.h

[ghost]

---- tf_gcmessages.pb.cc ---- {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:2441168: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.lvus493' g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus compilation terminated. make[2]: [server_linux32_tf.mak:9644: obj_server_tf_linux32/release/tf_gcmessages.pb.o] Error 1 make[1]: [games.mak:178: server_tf] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2

real 1m2.320s user 0m40.070s sys 0m4.880s

It seems like a few forum posts about this say it's running out of memory/RAM; not sure there's a way I can get around this.

[ghost]

Looks like I can make progress by building consecutively? It's not crashing where it did before, I seem to be making progress.

[melvyn2]

You can always keep building the working projects... ignoring the failing ones won't get you a working build. You'll just finish building the working ones.

[ghost]

Hmm, seems like it's getting stuck on this now:

Building: scenefilecache Building: server_tf -P-- tf_gamerules.cpp ----

Doesn't seem to be crashing/exiting/stopping, although I can do so manually with Ctrl+C. I'll wait it out for a bit. Edit: using -dd tag shows it isn't paused, simply taking a long time.

[ghost]

Writing master makefile /home/trb/team-comtress-2-main/src/games.mak. virtual void CMaterialSystem::EndFrame()': /home/trb/team-comtress-2-main/src/materialsystem/cmaterialsystem.cpp:3815:42: error: 'class CThreadMutex' has no member named 'GetOwnerId'

[melvyn2]

check the fixes pr again...

[ghost]

I'm going to just download your for-pr entirely replace what I have, that way I don't have to look around for cherry picks.

[ghost]

Finally finished using your for-pr, got following:

---- sys_linux.cpp ---- ---- LINKING obj_dedicated_linux32/debug/dedicated.so [debug] ---- /usr/bin/ld: ./obj_dedicated_linux32/debug/zip_utils.o: in function CWin32File::CreateTempFile(CUtlString&, CUtlString&)': /home/trb/team-comtress-2-main/src/public/zip_utils.cpp:181: warning: the use oftmpnam' is dangerous, better use mkstemp' /usr/bin/ld: ./obj_dedicated_linux32/debug/TextConsoleUnix.o: warning: relocation against_ZN23__pthread_cleanup_classD1Ev' in read-only section `.text' /usr/bin/ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a shared object ---- COPYING TO ../../game/bin/dedicated.so [debug] ---- Building: dedicated_main ---- SteamAppStartup.cpp ---- ---- main.cpp ---- ---- LINKING EXE ../../game/srcds_linux [debug] ---- /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtcmalloc_minimal.so when searching for -ltcmalloc_minimal /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtcmalloc_minimal.a when searching for -ltcmalloc_minimal /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcmalloc_minimal: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtcmalloc_minimal.so when searching for -ltcmalloc_minimal collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: [../devtools/makefile_base_posix.mak:595: ../../game/srcds_linux] Error 1 make[1]: [games.mak:106: dedicated_main] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2

[ghost]

Similar after trying again:

-P-- weapons_resource.cpp ---- -P-- weapon_selection.cpp ---- -P-- WorldDimsProxy.cpp ---- ---- LINKING obj_client_tf_linux32/release/client.so [release] ---- collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] compilation terminated. make[2]: [../../devtools/makefile_base_posix.mak:583: obj_client_tf_linux32/release/client.so] Error 1 make[1]: [games.mak:94: client_tf] Error 2 make: *** [games.mak:65: all] Error 2

real 60m7.444s user 52m43.418s sys 6m34.182s

[ghost]

I think my system may be running out of memory, I'll see if I can fix this.

[ghost]

Increasing swap size to 2GB (up from 0) to see if this changes anything.