Compilation Fatal Error: Package libfixposix was not found in the pkg-config search... for nyxt-3-pre-release-1-source-with-submodules tarball

[androclus]

Hi folks, total newbie to nyxt (and even CL), so forgive me if this is stupid. :-)

Describe the bug

As what seemed like the easiest way in to trying out nyxt v3 on my distro, I downloaded the July version 3 pre-release (with submodules), at

nyxt-3-pre-release-1-source-with-submodules.tar.xz

and read the instructions at INSTALL. I didn't change anything in the makefile, and I have sbcl on my system. When I ran "make all", I got the fatal error aborting compilation:

Package libfixposix was not found in the pkg-config search...

Precise recipe to reproduce the issue

• Download nyxt-3-pre-release-1-source-with-submodules.tar.xz from releases page
• $ make all

Information

• OS name+version: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed latest (Linux x86_64 5.19.8-1-default SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC)
• CL implementation: SBCL 2.2.8-1.1-suse

Let me know if I've just missed something obvious, or forgotten to include some info, or if there is anything else you need. Thanks. JS

[jmercouris]

Hello and welcome! You'll need to install libfixposix! It should be available for your operating system.

Alternatively, you can:

zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bobbie424242/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ nyxt-git for tumbleweed!

[aartaka]

I guess we have to emphasize it in the developer README that libfixposix is extremely system-dependent and that we cannot easily package it.

Or can we?

[Ambrevar]

Package where? It's in the Guix pack, but here the OP downloaded the source.

[jmercouris]

I think our instructions are sufficient. If the user wished to install from source; they should have read the developer readme! https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/tree/master/documents#standard-developers-installation

This is not the standard use case, the standard use case is via package manager or via Guix pack. Therefore, I think we are OK with regards to documentation.