Building from source (Ubuntu)

[jmrfox]

Hi, I have some problems building from source on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS WSL. I'll walk through the steps listed on the README.

1. Clone and setup

git clone --recursive https://github.com/arbor-sim/gui.git
cd arbor-gui
mkdir build
cd build

I don't think this block works as intended. The clone command gives me a directory called gui so cd arbor-gui fails, then we go into a new folder build outside the repo.

2. Dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev \ 
                 libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev \
                 libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
                 freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev gcc-10 g++-10

All of these libraries are accessible with sudo apt install but this command as it is written at first gave me an error E: Unable to locate package libxml2-dev. I was able to finally get all of these, I had to try sudo apt install <package> on them individually in different orders than is written. I don't know enough about how package accessibility works in Ubuntu to diagnose this exactly.

3. Cmake and compilers
   I have cmake version 3.28.3 so that's fine. The update-alternatives thing works too.
   But then I do cmake .. in gui/build, which fails with the following output.

/gui/build$ cmake ..
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.43.0")
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 10.5.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 10.5.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_NATIVE
-- Performing Test CXX_HAS_NATIVE - Success
CMake Warning at 3rd-party/arbor/cmake/CompilerOptions.cmake:88 (message):
  Found an unsupported compiler GNU version 10.5.0, please consider switching
  to a supported version of GCC or Clang.  Build failure is expected.  We
  reserve the option to close all related issues without consideration.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  3rd-party/arbor/CMakeLists.txt:210 (check_supported_cxx)


-- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE)
-- CPM: Adding package json@3.12.0 (v3.12.0)
-- Using the multi-header code from /home/jordan/gui/build/_deps/json-src/include/
-- CPM: Adding package random123@1.14.0 (v1.14.0)
-- CPM: Adding package pugixml@1.13 (v1.13)
-- CPM: Adding package fmt@10.0.0 (10.0.0)
-- Version: 10.0.0
-- Build type: release
-- CPM: Adding package benchmark@1.8.3 (v1.8.3)
-- Failed to find LLVM FileCheck
-- git version: v1.8.3 normalized to 1.8.3
-- Google Benchmark version: 1.8.3
-- Looking for shm_open in rt
-- Looking for shm_open in rt - found
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WALL
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WALL - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WEXTRA
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WEXTRA - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSHADOW
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSHADOW - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WFLOAT_EQUAL
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WFLOAT_EQUAL - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WOLD_STYLE_CAST
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WOLD_STYLE_CAST - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WERROR
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WERROR - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSUGGEST_OVERRIDE
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSUGGEST_OVERRIDE - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_PEDANTIC
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_PEDANTIC - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_PEDANTIC_ERRORS
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_PEDANTIC_ERRORS - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSHORTEN_64_TO_32
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSHORTEN_64_TO_32 - Failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_FSTRICT_ALIASING
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_FSTRICT_ALIASING - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WNO_DEPRECATED_DECLARATIONS
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WNO_DEPRECATED_DECLARATIONS - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WNO_DEPRECATED
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WNO_DEPRECATED - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSTRICT_ALIASING
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WSTRICT_ALIASING - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WD654
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WD654 - Failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WTHREAD_SAFETY
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_WTHREAD_SAFETY - Failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_COVERAGE
-- Performing Test HAVE_CXX_FLAG_COVERAGE - Success
-- Compiling and running to test HAVE_STD_REGEX
-- Performing Test HAVE_STD_REGEX -- success
-- Compiling and running to test HAVE_GNU_POSIX_REGEX
-- Performing Test HAVE_GNU_POSIX_REGEX -- failed to compile
-- Compiling and running to test HAVE_POSIX_REGEX
-- Performing Test HAVE_POSIX_REGEX -- success
-- Compiling and running to test HAVE_STEADY_CLOCK
-- Performing Test HAVE_STEADY_CLOCK -- success
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Compiling and running to test HAVE_PTHREAD_AFFINITY
-- Performing Test HAVE_PTHREAD_AFFINITY -- success
-- CPM: Adding package googletest@1.12.1 (release-1.12.1)
-- Found Python: /usr/bin/python3 (found version "3.12.3") found components: Interpreter
-- CPM: Adding package units@0.13.1 (v0.13.1)
-- adding library units::units
-- CPM: Adding package tinyopt@0 (7e6d707d49c6cb4be27ebd253856be65293288df)
-- Found Python3: /usr/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.12.3", minimum required is "3.10.0") found components: Interpreter
-- Failed to locate sphinx-build executable (missing: SPHINX_EXECUTABLE)
-- Could NOT find PY_svgwrite (missing: PY_SVGWRITE)
CMake Deprecation Warning at 3rd-party/glbinding/cmake/Custom.cmake:6 (cmake_policy):
  The OLD behavior for policy CMP0120 will be removed from a future version
  of CMake.

  The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all
  policies are deprecated and that a policy should be set to OLD only under
  specific short-term circumstances.  Projects should be ported to the NEW
  behavior and not rely on setting a policy to OLD.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  3rd-party/glbinding/CMakeLists.txt:37 (set_policy)


-- Could NOT find cppcheck (missing: cppcheck_EXECUTABLE)
-- Check cppcheck skipped: cppcheck not found
-- Could NOT find clang_tidy (missing: clang_tidy_EXECUTABLE)
-- Check clang-tidy skipped: clang-tidy not found
-- Coverage lcov skipped: Manually disabled
-- External KHRplatform
-- Lib glbinding
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR - Success
-- Lib glbinding-aux
Tool glbinding-glcontexts skipped: glfw3 not found
Tool glbinding-glfunctions skipped: glfw3 not found
Tool glbinding-glinfo skipped: glfw3 not found
Tool glbinding-glisdeprecated skipped: glfw3 not found
-- Tool glbinding-glmeta
Tool glbinding-glqueries skipped: glfw3 not found
Tool glbinding-glescontexts skipped: glfw3 not found
-- Including Wayland support
-- Including X11 support
-- Looking for memfd_create
-- Looking for memfd_create - found
CMake Error at 3rd-party/glfw/src/CMakeLists.txt:77 (message):
  Failed to find wayland-scanner


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

And at this point I don't know what to do. There is no rule to make target 'install'
Thanks in advance!

PS: As a long-time WSL user, I can say display forwarding is always a pain. You suggest using VcXsrv, which in my eyes is a little dated. Consider using X410. I've used it for a while now with Debian WSL and it's lovely.

[jmrfox]

Update - I was able to get the first part of the build with these additional packages:

sudo apt install -y \
  build-essential cmake git pkg-config \
  libssl-dev libxml2-dev \
  libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev \
  libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev \
  libwayland-dev libwayland-bin wayland-protocols libxkbcommon-dev

Then (in gui) do cmake -S . -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, and that completed.
However, the second part of the build fails: cmake --build build -j 8 returns a long output that I have attached.

arborbuilderror.txt

[thorstenhater]

Hi,

could you try with the 0.11 branch here:

https://github.com/arbor-sim/gui/tree/v0.11.0

or by git switch ing to v0.11.0? That uses a more recent Arbor
and updated submodules.

[jmrfox]

OK I cloned v0.11.0 separately and got a similar result. The first part of the cmake build works, but the second part fails with a long error (see attached).

arborbuilderror_v0.11.0.txt