Installer "Error: while requiring "..controllers/**"

[VenielOuria]

Greetings, I'm following the install instructions, got all the prerequisites, up to the

crystal build /src/ktistec/server.cr

after about 10 sec it throws an error

"Error: while requiring "..controllers/**"

No other info. Is this a common issue. Or is there a way to have more verbose output so I can track down the cause? No previous experience with Crystal.

[toddsundsted]

what directory are you in when you issued the build command? you'd have to be in the root directory (/) and the project checked out there for that command to work. did you type "crystal build src/ktistec/server.cr" instead (that's what i would have expected).

[VenielOuria]

I run the command from folder in home/username/ktistec I've also tried cloning the repo to / root and repeating process, same result.

The "src/ktistec/server.cr" path refers to the subfolders of the cloned ktistec/ folder, correct? I can see the server file there so it seems to makes sense to run the command from project folders root. Or is it meant to be system root folder?

[toddsundsted]

it should be run from the project root. can you show me the steps you are taking, starting from a fresh clone of the repository. it would also help to know more about the system you are running and the version of crystal you have installed.

[VenielOuria]

Thanks for input so far. I've reinstalled with same result. Running on a Debian vps with 2gb RAM, definitely low-end but I'm hoping it's sufficient and not the issue.

Here's the terminal out as requested: https://pastebin.com/tsRFgmPP

[toddsundsted]

what is the contents, ownership and permissions of the files in src/controllers?

[VenielOuria]

$ ls -l total 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 948 Dec 30 04:50 activities.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 3006 Dec 30 04:50 actors.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 657 Dec 30 04:50 everything.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 2256 Dec 30 04:50 home.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 10335 Dec 30 04:50 inboxes.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 3835 Dec 30 04:50 metrics.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 4169 Dec 30 04:50 objects.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 9889 Dec 30 04:50 outboxes.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 928 Dec 30 04:50 relationships.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 2204 Dec 30 04:50 remote_follows.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 1505 Dec 30 04:50 searches.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 1199 Dec 30 04:50 sessions.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 2522 Dec 30 04:50 settings.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 460 Dec 30 04:50 suggestions.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 871 Dec 30 04:50 tags.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 2035 Dec 30 04:50 uploads.cr -rw-r--r-- 1 veniel veniel 2476 Dec 30 04:50 well_known.cr

[toddsundsted]

@VenielOuria following up... your project directory seems fine. i don't have any other suggestions for troubleshooting, or theories as to what could be going wrong in your build.

[VenielOuria]

Okay, thank you for your time, I will let you know if I ever figure out what happened.