Could not find OpenGL when building Hyprland

Question

Could not find OpenGL when building Hyprland

bruhderek opened this issue 4 months ago · comments

How to reproduce:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland && cd Hyprland
make all

This gives me the following error:

CMake Error at /nix/store/7jgkzsn972y4lrblv7f5rjpm46md0v64-cmake-3.27.8/share/cmake-3.27/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find OpenGL (missing: OPENGL_opengl_LIBRARY OPENGL_glx_LIBRARY
  OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /nix/store/7jgkzsn972y4lrblv7f5rjpm46md0v64-cmake-3.27.8/share/cmake-3.27/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /nix/store/7jgkzsn972y4lrblv7f5rjpm46md0v64-cmake-3.27.8/share/cmake-3.27/Modules/FindOpenGL.cmake:545 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:103 (find_package)

I tried this, but still gives me the error:

nix-env -iA nixos.libGL

Thomas · Answer 1 · Sun Jan 21 2024 03:05:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is not how NixOS is meant to be used. Please study the documentation further. You might want to make an overlay for Hyprland?

derek · Answer 2 · Sun Jan 21 2024 03:09:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@tpwrules Which part is not meant to be used? Building hyprland, or libGL? Sorry, this is my first time using NixOS.

Thomas · Answer 3 · Sun Jan 21 2024 03:12:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It generally does not work to git clone and make a package on NixOS due to the filesystem structure. Looks like there are some docs about using Hyprland: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nix/ . However, other users have been reporting acceleration issues, in particular with home-manager.