Your build instructions don't have a complete list of requisite libraries
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I've only gotten this far through guesswork.
I had to symlink /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libtoxcore.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/toxcore.pc to get it to even compile, which makes me think the name is probably out of date or something? Don't know the history of that. I am using the TokTok/c-toxcore fork.
Then I got more errors, and based on them guessed I needed libevent-dev (from Ubuntu 16.04 packages), which turned out to be right.
Now I am getting these errors during compiling, which are extra strange. Maybe I'm using the wrong version of libsodium. I have libsodium-dev installed from the official Ubuntu repos. I can't be sure if that's the problem, because your build instructions don't have a complete list of requisite libraries.
These are the errors I'm stuck on: https://gist.github.com/avrildev/640c6df779ba4fec241601e31142f7e9
Can someone please help? Thanks!
It looks like toxcore has changed a lot since the last build I made. Please try an earlier release like 0.17 or 0.16: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/releases
Though the errors you're getting are from missing libsodium. Are you sure you followed toxcore installation instructions fully? https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/blob/master/INSTALL.md#build-manually
Yes. I have lots of experience installing c-toxcore, and both my qtox and toxic installs have no trouble using my setup. I will redo the setup of c-toxcore so I can give you an exact list of what I did later.
Interesting.... tuntox has no external dependencies other than c-toxcore. Yeah hit me up with that so i can try replicating the issue
I have successfully compile this cool project on many different systems and platforms and I would like to share the list of required libraries. You will need:
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c-toxcore , also as @ghost pointed out, make link or copy "libtoxcore.pc" to "toxcore.pc".
It may be located on "/usr/lib/pkgconfig" or "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" or similar. -
python2 (and using its package system "pip", install: )
pip2 install Jinja2
pip2 install requests -
libevent-dev (it must contain also "libevent_pthreads", if it does not, you need to compile "libevent" project from source)
if command make still does not work after this, try to use make tuntox_nostatic
Also use make clean if make hits the error(s) before next try.
PS.: on Android you will also need to add "-llog" to Makefile
@gjedeer I have only stumble on this issue, because I also had trouble compiling it. And once I done in, share it. I do not care about PR.
@gjedeer No, not everyone using Ubuntu and No, not everyone is interesting using Ubuntu.
@gjedeer There is no list of dependencies in the README.md nor BUILD.md to be fair and there is no direct way to tell what is missing (no ./configure script either)
@gjedeer I spend hours to get it compiled and linked, not and easy task, so I only want to make it easier for someone else in the future, that is my "PR". If I had the information from my previous post earlier, I can save few hours of work, hope it helps someone.
@gjedeer You may not have the trouble compile and linking it, because you program it, you know it from bottom to the top, but others does not. And as you can see, there are few of us, that are facing difficulties compile and linking it. If you try to take it from their point of view, you may see it is not an easy task to compile it.
Closing this issue, BUILD.md should be more clear now about the dependencies.