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rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:24 AM

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Trying to get a tauri app running on linux... Every single time i try to compile I seem to be getting a new dependency issue. Currently geetting complaints about javscriptcoregtk not existing aswell as some other libraries versions not being new enough (glib, gio, gobjectg) aswell as webkit2gtk not being found, aswell as libsoup.

Followed the prerequisites for Linux on the tauri site aswell as some google searches to try resolve this myself and I cannot get anywhere.

I tried linux to avoid the hell of OpenSSL on windows as I couldn't get my Windows install to find my OpenSSL install no matter what, and I'm beginning to wonder which is worse...

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all of the issues together

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running on zorin os (based on ubuntu 20.04)

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:29 AM

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What version of Tauri are you trying to use? Tauri v2 requires WebKit2GTK-4.1 which is only available on Ubuntu 22.04 and onwards.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:29 AM

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yeah, using v2..

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:31 AM

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You can read more about the choice to raise the version here: https://tauri.app/blog/2023/02/03/tauri-2-0-0-alpha-3

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:34 AM

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well, thank you anyway

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i'll have to try and resolve my issue with OpenSSL on windows then

open reef Apr 11, 2023, 12:38 AM

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@rotund kernel you should probably take a look at nix

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:39 AM

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hm?

open reef Apr 11, 2023, 12:40 AM

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I had similar pains, I just wrote a flake.nix with all the dependencies I needed

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{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
    rust-overlay.url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
  };

  outputs = {
    nixpkgs,
    rust-overlay,
    ...
  }: let
    overlays = [(import rust-overlay)];

    # Helper generating outputs for each desired system
    forAllSystems = nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs [
      "x86_64-darwin"
      "x86_64-linux"
      "aarch64-darwin"
      "aarch64-linux"
    ];

    # Import nixpkgs' package set for each system.
    nixpkgsFor = forAllSystems (system:
      import nixpkgs {
        inherit system overlays;
      });
  in {
    formatter = forAllSystems (system: nixpkgsFor.${system}.alejandra);
    devShells = forAllSystems (system: let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        inherit system overlays;
      };

      inherit (pkgs.stdenv) isLinux;

      rust-toolchain = pkgs.rust-bin.stable.latest.default.override {
        extensions = ["rust-analyzer" "rust-src" "rust-std"];
        targets = ["wasm32-unknown-unknown"];
      };

      packages-linux = with pkgs; [
        rust-toolchain
        nodejs-18_x
        nodePackages.pnpm
        pkg-config
        gtk3
        webkitgtk
        libayatana-appindicator.dev
        alsa-lib.dev
      ];

      packages-darwin = with pkgs; [
        rust-toolchain
        nodejs-18_x
        nodePackages.pnpm
        curl
        wget
        pkg-config
        libiconv
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.CoreServices
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.CoreFoundation
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Foundation
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.AppKit
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.WebKit
        darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Cocoa
      ];

      packages =
        if isLinux
        then packages-linux
        else packages-darwin;
    in {
      default = pkgs.mkShell {
        buildInputs = packages;
      };
    });
  };
}

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:41 AM

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i have no experience with nix at all, i think i will just find a way around the issue using publish-tauri to create my linux binaries...

still need a solution to the OpenSSL issue on windows though - i want to compile my app for android but can't when openssl-sys won't compile :(

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i've installed openssl like 4 different ways by now, messed with too many env vars to name

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and nothing can make it compile

open reef Apr 11, 2023, 12:42 AM

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Yeah I understand perfectly, it's why I'm suggesting nix

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it's solving this issue

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:42 AM

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don't you need to be running nixos to deal with all that stuff? it's truly out of my depth cus i know nothing about it lol

open reef Apr 11, 2023, 12:42 AM

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I even gave you the flake I use which works

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no, you can use nix without nixos

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:43 AM

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You shouldn't have too many issues with OpenSSL on Windows if you use the Microsoft-provided version since that will provide all the environment variables you need. You can find this version under Settings > Apps > Optional Features.

open reef Apr 11, 2023, 12:43 AM

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nix is made of 3 parts, nix the langauge, nix the tool, and nix the os

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:43 AM

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rich briar You shouldn't have too many issues with OpenSSL on Windows if you use the Micros...

oh, interesting, i'll take a look into that

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nothing i googled gave me this answer

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always about either vcpkg or manual installation

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:44 AM

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Git also bundles it so installing Git for Windows would give you OpenSSL. Microsoft-vetted way seems the most stable approach though.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:44 AM

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yeah, i have openssl installed in multiple places.. but openssl-sys refuses to find it..

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:45 AM

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Uh... nevermind. It was OpenSSH I was thinking of.

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Sorry.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:45 AM

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yeah, just checked

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it's fine

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:45 AM

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I try to use Windows as little as possible.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:45 AM

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me too, that's why i tried to switch to linux to avoid the openssl issue

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since sudo apt install libssl-dev will always be 1000x easier !

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:46 AM

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It's weird that you ran into environment variable problems if you used an installer.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:46 AM

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there's not really a proper openssl installer on windows that will actually try to populate env vars for dev purposes

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i used an installer to install openssl itself and there was no env vars created

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installed openssl thru vcpkg too, setting env vars for vcpkg's root aswell as env vars for all of the openssl stuff

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nothing can make openssl-sys find a single install of openssl

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:47 AM

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Oh... that's why I thought it had a package for Windows. winget install openssl

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:47 AM

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it can't even find my vcpkg install, even tho there's also an env var set for that

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:47 AM

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rich briar Oh... that's why I thought it had a package for Windows. `winget install openssl...

welp

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:48 AM

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Might have a --force or equivalent. Will check Microsoft's docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/).

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:48 AM

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yeah, it does

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i'm trying it

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still happens even after installing it through winget:

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i have a comical amount of env vars set related to vcpkg and openssl, i really don't understand

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:51 AM

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Uh... are you trying to compile for Android?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:51 AM

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yeah, i am

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:51 AM

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Does it compile normally for Windows?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:51 AM

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i haven't tried a windows compile since i upgraded to tauri v2, let me try

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compiles on windows, but that's because it doesn't even attempt to install openssl-sys..

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:53 AM

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There's some prerequisites for Android (https://next--tauri.netlify.app/next/guides/getting-started/prerequisites/windows), have you followed those too?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:53 AM

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yep

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 12:54 AM

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Hm... is your project source-available?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 12:54 AM

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uhhh no

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i don't think that's too relevant though - since i think openssl-sys is required as part of the android compile process

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just would be useful if i could figure out why it refuses to detect one of my like 3 openssl installs

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:06 AM

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If you create a new project using [npm|pnpm|yarn] create tauri-app --alpha or cargo install create-tauri-app && cargo create-tauri-app --alpha, do you have the same problem or is this an issue integrating into an existing project? I ask because you mentioned upgrading to v2 earlier.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:06 AM

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let me try

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hm, that project also fails - but for a different reason

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the default project doesn't seem to have any libs or features which require openssl, so that part works fine

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i get all the way to the end of compilation and then get a linker error about android llvm

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hm, this probably is not a hard solution

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yeah, okay, my ndk version has some weirdness but it looks solvable - will try that

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still doesn't help for the case of my actual app tho, using the default program only avoids the requirement of openssl-sys

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:18 AM

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The requirement for openssl-sys is probably added when you enable the http module in tauri.conf.json.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:18 AM

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i don't have it

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:19 AM

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Hm... any other differences in your allowlist?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:19 AM

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yeah, only for file operations though

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it's probably one of the crates i use, since i for example have reqwest as a crate

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:20 AM

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Tauri now uses reqwest by default for the http module, so try enabling it and see if the same problem occurs.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:23 AM

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i think i managed to solve it by using rustls-tls for reqwest

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i just have to fix ndk now

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:26 AM

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Oh, it should have been doing that automatically in the latest version.

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https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/releases/tag/cli.rs-v2.0.0-alpha.6

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:26 AM

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yeah - it did, the dependency was in my code not tauri's

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hm, got the app itself to compile but

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gradle is now complaining

rich briar Apr 11, 2023, 1:32 AM

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Gradle is beyond my experience, unfortunately.

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 1:45 AM

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fixed it by manually updating the gradle version

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only to ensure more issues.. god i love gradle

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i will probably give up with android for now, this is a mess

old crown Apr 11, 2023, 6:34 AM

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btw did you have homebrew installed on your Linux system? That's the only thing known to cause issues (other than straight up not having dependencies installed)

thorny fern Apr 11, 2023, 9:17 AM

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Do you have pkg-config installed?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 10:26 AM

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old crown btw did you have homebrew installed on your Linux system? That's the only thing ...

no

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 10:26 AM

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thorny fern Do you have pkg-config installed?

yes, but openssl isn’t an issue now

thorny fern Apr 11, 2023, 10:28 AM

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rotund kernel yes, but openssl isn’t an issue now

Ah. Gradle being a bitch? Did you remember to upgrade all your versions in Cargo.toml, run cargo update, delete the gen folder and re-init the android project?

rotund kernel Apr 11, 2023, 10:30 AM

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yeah.. i think it doesn’t like the java version i have installed

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tried using android studio to have it use java 11 instead and it still complains

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google seems to think that my java version is too new for the gradle version in the project

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so i tried updating gradle, but then got an issue where it said the project is using outdated gradle stuff that is dropping support in gradle 9 so would not let me compile

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but it got me further than the default project settings atleast

thorny fern Apr 11, 2023, 10:40 AM

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The fastest way to ensure you don't have a system dependencies related issue is to try building inside my dev container since all dependencies are taken care of for you
https://github.com/simonhyll/devcontainer
Whether you decide to actually use it or not is up to you, I use it for basically all my projects nowadays, but it's a really good tool for debugging your Android setup

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