Cannot build: No wscript file in directory diodon-plugins/plugins/actions

[Johann-Tree]

I tried to build on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit but I get following error:

[johann:~/Downloads/programme/diodon-plugins] master(+0/-0)* ± ./waf build
Waf: Entering directory `/home/johann/Downloads/programme/diodon-plugins/build'
No wscript file in directory /home/johann/Downloads/programme/diodon-plugins/plugins/actions

Output from ./waf configure --libdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ :

Setting top to : /home/johann/Downloads/programme/diodon-plugins
Setting out to : /home/johann/Downloads/programme/diodon-plugins/build
Checking for 'c_bgxlc' (c compiler) : not found
Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler) : /usr/bin/gcc
Checking for program python : /usr/bin/python
Checking for program glib-genmarshal : /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal
Checking for program perl : /usr/bin/perl
Checking for 'glib-mkenums' : /usr/bin/glib-mkenums
Checking for program glib-compile-schemas : /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas
Checking for program valac-0.16 : not found
Checking for program valac : /usr/bin/valac
Checking for valac version >= (0, 16, 0) : (0, 40, 4)
Checking for program pkg-config : /usr/bin/pkg-config
Checking for 'diodon' >= 1.6.0 : yes
Checking for 'libpeas-1.0' >= 1.1.0 : yes
Checking for 'libpeas-gtk-1.0' >= 1.1.0 : yes
'configure' finished successfully (0.077s)

What can I do to be able to build?

[DiagonalArg]

I tried on 16.04 and had the same problem. I commented out these lines in the file wscript:

bld.add_subdirs('plugins/actions')
bld.add_subdirs('plugins/alternative') 

That gets me to the following error:

Build failed
 -> task in 'features' failed (exit status 1): 
        {task 140464903407824: valac clipboard-menu-item.vala,features.vala,filter.vala,pinned-items.vala -> features.h,features.vapi,features.deps,clipboard-menu-item.c,features.c,filter.c,pinned-items.c}
''

I do have diodon-dev, libgee-0.8-dev and valac installed.

Maybe someone knows how to get beyond this?

[DiagonalArg]

Ok, I was able to get it to build and install, if I also modified line 34 of the file .../plugins/features/pinned-items.vala to read:

checksums = new GenericArray<string> ();

That is, remove the array.length from between the parentheses.

Some things are working, though I'm not sure everything is.

Same problem on 19.04

[w-sky]

Same problem, unfortunately, after I have installed all extra libraries and dev packages. The folder /home/w-sky/diodon-plugins/plugins/actions does not exist (diodon-plugins/plugins/ does exist, containing 6 folders: dbus-controller edit features numbers paste-all pop

w-sky@Abook:~/diodon-plugins$ ./waf configure --libdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
Setting top to                           : /home/w-sky/diodon-plugins 
Setting out to                           : /home/w-sky/diodon-plugins/_build_ 
Checking for 'c_bgxlc' (c compiler)      : not found 
Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : /usr/bin/gcc 
Checking for program python              : /usr/bin/python 
Checking for program glib-genmarshal     : /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal 
Checking for program perl                : /usr/bin/perl 
Checking for 'glib-mkenums'              : /usr/bin/glib-mkenums 
Checking for program glib-compile-schemas : /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas 
Checking for program valac-0.16           : not found 
Checking for program valac                : /usr/bin/valac 
Checking for valac version >= (0, 16, 0)  : (0, 48, 6) 
Checking for program pkg-config           : /usr/bin/pkg-config 
Checking for 'diodon' >= 1.6.0            : yes 
Checking for 'libpeas-1.0' >= 1.1.0       : yes 
Checking for 'libpeas-gtk-1.0' >= 1.1.0   : yes 
'configure' finished successfully (0.045s)
w-sky@Abook:~/diodon-plugins$ ./waf build
Waf: Entering directory `/home/w-sky/diodon-plugins/_build_'
No wscript file in directory /home/w-sky/diodon-plugins/plugins/actions