packer.nvim: ... 'fzf' extension doesn 't exist or isn't installed: ..... local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/telescope -fzf-native.nvim/build/libfzf.so' (no such file)

[chomosuke]

Hi, thank you for making this awesome plugin.

I have been trying to install fzf and get it working for a while now. However, it doesn't seems to work.

I've produced a minimum config that reproduce the issue, here's a screenshot of me trying to run PackerSync right after I added telescope & telescope-fzf-native

Here's my config in case you want to copy it

return require 'packer'.startup(function()
  -- for packer to host itself
  use 'wbthomason/packer.nvim'

  -- for telescope finding files
  use {
    'nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim',
    run = 'cmake -S. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && cmake --build build --config Release && cmake --install build --prefix build',
  }
  use {
    'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
    config = function()
      require 'telescope'.setup {}
      require 'telescope'.load_extension 'fzf'
    end,
    requires = 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
  }
end)

I tried to run the cmake command in the plugin's directory, everything seems to be fine:

I am on macOS 12.4

May I ask what am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Conni2461]

I just merged a PR https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim/pull/73 that might address your issue. Can you repull and try again?

The cmake version is pretty new (it mainly exist to improve windows compatibility) and it seems that it wasn't working for macos. I hope that is fixed now. Otherwise setting run = 'make', is still supported

[chomosuke]

Right I see, I've actually just tried the make version and it did work on my mac. I was hoping to use cmake as I have a windows machine sharing the config also.

Anyways, I just tried the cmake version again and it seems to work now. Thank you!