How to build from source

[LinArcX]

Expected behavior

Hi. and thank you for this great artifact. I want to install kinematic on arch Linux. There is two pkgbuilds in aur, but both have some broken dependencies.(nodejs-grunt-cli) Can you give me a recipe to how build kitematic from source Thank you so much.

[nocodes86]

I think this project is dead

[emaballarin]

@LinArcX, I had right today the same problem as yours, and I have finally managed to solve it (somehow) in the way I will outline below. Just note that this is not entirely the way it should work. However, so far I have tested it, I experienced no problems.

Prerequisites:

• Docker
• Nodejs 9.x.y (that is one of these)
• Npm (the one bundled with Arch is fine)
• Grunt (the package is now called: grunt-cli)
• Git
• All you may want if you want to make a PKGBUILD out of it

Preparation:

• Unpack somewhere the Nodejs 9 release (you can safely delete it after the build process; let's call it $NODEDIR)
• git clone --recursive https://github.com/docker/kitematic.git somewhere else (let's call it $KITEDIR)
• Edit $KITEDIR/Gruntfile such that line (as of now) 224 which currently looks like

command: 'cd build && npm install --production'

then looks like

command: 'cd build && npm install --production --force'

• Perform, in the shell you will use for the build process:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$NODEDIR/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PATH="$NODEDIR/bin/:$PATH"

Build process:

• cd $KITEDIR && npm install # may throw some errors
• cd $KITEDIR && npm run release # will throw some errors for sure

Distribution:

• The directory $KITEDIR/dist/Kitematic-linux-x64 is what should be put in $PKGDIR when distribution the package, and Kitematic is the executable.

CAVEATS: This procedure worked for me just out of luck, because of the fact that the errors arising from the build process and partially suppressed by the --force switch did not interfere with the real build process but were only (as fas as I can tell and test) side effects of the fact that:

• this project officially targets Windows, Mac and Ubuntu (that it *.deb distribution files)
• there are some tslint deprecations in the project

I cannot tell if this project is dead, will die shortly or is in pre-death maintainance mode (at least for Linux-based OSs), but these steps are provided under the conditions of the just make it run, no matter what philosophy. I hope you can find them useful.

Good luck with the build! :wink:

[SailHe]

npm install
npm run release:debian:x64
# and look up in ./dist