Trying to develop a new feature for meld but I’m not sure I understand how to set up the dev environment.
I installed the dev requirements pip3 install -r dev_requirements.txt
As per documentation, I tried meson _build but it fails:
Source dir: /home/ventsyv/meld
Build dir: /home/ventsyv/meld/_build
Build type: native build
Project name: meld
Project version: 3.22.0
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency python3 found: YES 3.10
Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.24.33
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.72.4
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.22.1)
Run-time dependency gtksourceview-4 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
meson.build:21:0: ERROR: Dependency "gtksourceview-4" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
Running pip3 install . gives:
meld/build_helpers.py", line 67, in <module>
command_base.command.build.Build.sub_commands.extend([
AttributeError: module 'distutils.command.build' has no attribute 'Build'. Did you mean: 'build'?
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
I apt installed gtksourceview-4-dev, then used pip to install pygobject but meson is still not founding it:
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.22.1)
Run-time dependency pygobject-3.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
meson.build:22:0: ERROR: Dependency "pygobject-3.0" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
pip3 show pygobject
Name: PyGObject
Version: 3.42.1
Summary: Python bindings for GObject Introspection
Home-page: https://pygobject.readthedocs.io
Author: James Henstridge
Author-email: james@daa.com.au
License: GNU LGPL
Location: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Requires: pycairo
Required-by:
I don’t want to keep installing packages by hand. What am I missing here?
OS is Ubuntu 22.04