The question, in short:
How can I install the libadwaita-1 dependency for a meson-built project?
(Specifically gnome-calculator, if that matters.)
Background:
I was interested in making a small tweak to the Gnome Calculator app, just for my own amusement mostly (I want to change the π button to a button, because pi is wrong ;) ), and so was downloading the source and trying to build it, in hopes of then making the change.
It seems to expect to be built with meson (with which I was previously unfamiliar), so... I'm trying to get it to build with that, so I can make my tweaks and go from there.
System information
I'm doing this on Ubuntu budgie...
: $; lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.10
Release: 21.10
Codename: impish
What I've tried so far
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator.git (got it with commit 214649c at HEAD)
cd gnome-calculator
(looked at README, poked around at various things, figured out that I probably wanted meson, did some reading on that...)
sudo apt install meson
meson build
I then proceeded to find various dependencies unmet, that I was able to figure out how to resolve... doing sudo apt install on each of:
valaccmakelibxml2-devlibsoup-gnome2.4-devlibgee-0.8-devlibmpc-devlibgtk-4-dev (side-note: this installed 4.4.0, and I edited meson.build to change the requirement to that from 4.4.1... Which I suppose might create other problems, but I'll figure that out if/when I get to them.)
But finally, i got to one that... I thought I could maybe resolve with sudo apt install libadwaitaqt-dev, but that didn't do the trick:
What I got (abbreviated version):
: $; meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.56.2
Source dir: /home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator
Build dir: /home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator/build
Build type: native build
Project name: gnome-calculator
Project version: 41.0
[... a bunch of found dependencies elided; see below for full list ...]
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.18.4)
Run-time dependency libadwaita-1 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
meson.build:85:0: ERROR: Dependency "libadwaita-1" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
The problem:
So, in short, I'd like to know how to resolve the following dependency:
Run-time dependency libadwaita-1 found: NO
Again, I tried sudo apt install on libadwaitaqt-dev, and that installation worked, but it didn't resolve the build dependency. I also tried libadwaitaqt1 and adwaita-qt.
More specifically, here's what I have installed, while it still fails:
: $; dpkg-query -l '*adwaita*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=======================-===============-============-==========================================================
ii adwaita-icon-theme 40.1.1-1ubuntu1 all default icon theme of GNOME (small subset)
un adwaita-icon-theme-full <none> <none> (no description available)
ii adwaita-qt:amd64 1.4.0-2 amd64 Qt 5 port of GNOME’s Adwaita theme
ii libadwaitaqt-dev:amd64 1.4.0-2 amd64 Qt 5 port of GNOME’s Adwaita theme — development files
ii libadwaitaqt1:amd64 1.4.0-2 amd64 Qt 5 port of GNOME’s Adwaita theme — public library
ii libadwaitaqtpriv1:amd64 1.4.0-2 amd64 Qt 5 port of GNOME’s Adwaita theme — private library
The question, reiterated with this background:
How can I install this and/or correct the dependency checking to use what I've got?
Further notes on the question:
I'd strongly prefer to install dependencies with some sort of package management, though I may try building adwaita from source next, and see if I can get that working. My hope was to only have to build gnome-calculator itself from scratch.
Also: am I doing anything wrong with my meson build command line? Again, I'm new to meson, so tips in that regard are lso welcome, though I did try a few options, and they all seem to produce the same result, if they do anything at all useful-seeming.
What I got (full version):
: $; meson build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.56.2
Source dir: /home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator
Build dir: /home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator/build
Build type: native build
Project name: gnome-calculator
Project version: 41.0
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 11.2.0 "gcc (Ubuntu 11.2.0-7ubuntu2) 11.2.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.37
Vala compiler for the host machine: valac (valac 0.52.6)
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
Run-time dependency gmodule-export-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
Run-time dependency libxml-2.0 found: YES 2.9.12
Run-time dependency libsoup-2.4 found: YES 2.72.0
Run-time dependency gee-0.8 found: YES 0.20.4
Library m found: YES
Library mpc found: YES
Library mpc found: YES
Library mpfr found: YES
Library mpfr found: YES
Library posix found: YES
Configuring config.h using configuration
Program meson_post_install.py found: YES (/home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator/meson_post_install.py)
Configuring gcalc-2.pc using configuration
Configuring gcalc-2.deps using configuration
Configuring namespace-info.vala using configuration
Configuring config.h using configuration
Program g-ir-compiler found: YES (/usr/bin/g-ir-compiler)
Run-time dependency gtk4 found: YES 4.4.0
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.18.4)
Run-time dependency libadwaita-1 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
meson.build:85:0: ERROR: Dependency "libadwaita-1" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
A full log can be found at /home/lindes/src/gits/gnome/gnome-calculator/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
