G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[Erik Grun]

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Hello, G-Golfers,

I have some troubles getting G-Golf to run.

I am using Guix on Fedora 38. Via Guix I tried to install G-Golf version 
"a.1"[0] together with GTK@4.8.1. This raised a conflict during 
installation, as GTK (as well as libadwaita) require glib@2.72.3, but 
g-golf requires glib@2.73.3.
After some research I found the "--with-input" option in Guix and build 
"g-golf" locally with glib@2.72.3 (GTKs requirement) and then did a 
"guix install" on the local version (/gnu/store/…/guile-g-golf…).

So after a successful? installation I tried to execute the "Hello World" 
example[1] and got this message (posting last 4 lines, full output here[2])

 > […]
 > In g-golf/gi/repository.scm:
 >     99:2  0 (g-irepository-require _ #:version _ #:repository _)

 > g-golf/gi/repository.scm:99:2: In procedure g-irepository-require:
 > Typelib file for namespace 'Gtk', version '4.8.1' not found

And this is where I am stuck.

I tried commenting out this line in "hello-world.scm":
 >  (g-irepository-require "Gtk" #:version "4.0")

Even installing GTK4 (gtk4-devel) from Fedoras own repo didn't help.

Do you have an idea how to fix this?

Kind regards,

Erik (egnun)

[0] Which seems to be outdated?
[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/g-golf.git/tree/examples/gtk-4/hello-world.scm
[2] https://etherpad.belug.de/etherpad/p/g-golf

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Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[Erik Grun]

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Hello, G-Golfers,
hello, Guile users,

By the way running G-Golf in a shell environment yields different errors.

So, I executed this
$ guix shell guile-g-golf gtk
$ ./hello-world.scm

And got this output[1]

 > […]
 > In oop/goops.scm:01
 >  1567:11  1 (cache-miss #<<gtk-application> 7f826c644120> ("./hell…"))
 >   1585:2  0 (_ _ _)

 > oop/goops.scm:1585:2: No applicable method for #<<generic> 
g-application-run (1)> in call (g-application-run #<<gtk-application> 
7f826c644120> ("./hello-world.scm"))

Does anyone know why this is different this time?

Kind regards,

Erik

[1] Full output here https://etherpad.belug.de/etherpad/p/g-golf

Am 28.05.23 um 11:56 schrieb Erik Grun:
> [[[ Hiermit widerspreche ich ausdrücklich der Erfassung, Speicherung
> und Verarbeitung meiner Daten zu anderen Zwecken, als der Zustellung
> meiner Nachricht zum Empfänger ]]]
> 
> 
> Hello, G-Golfers,
> 
> I have some troubles getting G-Golf to run.
> 
> I am using Guix on Fedora 38. Via Guix I tried to install G-Golf version 
> "a.1"[0] together with GTK@4.8.1. This raised a conflict during 
> installation, as GTK (as well as libadwaita) require glib@2.72.3, but 
> g-golf requires glib@2.73.3.
> After some research I found the "--with-input" option in Guix and build 
> "g-golf" locally with glib@2.72.3 (GTKs requirement) and then did a 
> "guix install" on the local version (/gnu/store/…/guile-g-golf…).
> 
> So after a successful? installation I tried to execute the "Hello World" 
> example[1] and got this message (posting last 4 lines, full output here[2])
> 
>  > […]
>  > In g-golf/gi/repository.scm:
>  >     99:2  0 (g-irepository-require _ #:version _ #:repository _)
> 
>  > g-golf/gi/repository.scm:99:2: In procedure g-irepository-require:
>  > Typelib file for namespace 'Gtk', version '4.8.1' not found
> 
> And this is where I am stuck.
> 
> I tried commenting out this line in "hello-world.scm":
>  >  (g-irepository-require "Gtk" #:version "4.0")
> 
> Even installing GTK4 (gtk4-devel) from Fedoras own repo didn't help.
> 
> Do you have an idea how to fix this?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Erik (egnun)
> 
> [0] Which seems to be outdated?
> [1] 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/g-golf.git/tree/examples/gtk-4/hello-world.scm
> [2] https://etherpad.belug.de/etherpad/p/g-golf
> 


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Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Hello Erik.

I tried to use g-golf on Guix recently, and gave up, because while Guix’
guile-g-golf depends on glib@2.73.3, Guix’ gtk (GTK4) and gtk+ (GTK3,
GTK2) depend on glib@2.72.3.  In other words, I believe that currently,
g-golf cannot be used with gtk in Guix.  Upgrading gtk’s glib in the
Guix source code caused issues with other software (that I’m sure
someone someday will fix), though I do not remember exactly.  Using
Fedora’s GTK with Guix’ might be possible with tricks, but normally the
software in Guix is patched to make it use only software from Guix.

Regards,
Florian

Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[David Pirotte]

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Hello Erik,
(and Florian),

> I am using Guix on Fedora 38. Via Guix I tried to install G-Golf
> version "a.1"[0] together with GTK@4.8.1. This raised a conflict
> during installation, as GTK (as well as libadwaita) require
> glib@2.72.3, but g-golf requires glib@2.73.3.
> ...

I don't use guix [1]. I would recommend that you ask for help in a guix
ml or in #guix. I also would highly recommend to use g-golf 0.8.0-a4,
as a couple of serious bugs have been fixed 'on the way to' and in that
version.

David

[1]	fwiw, I use debian bookworm (testing).

	https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/install.html
	Dependencies ...

		[ i see i 'published' gtk-4 >= 4.10, but 4.8.x should
		[ be fine

		[ the gtk-4 cairo based examples needs a patched version
		[ guile-cairo, as describe in the INSTALL file and
		[ in the link above

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Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[Mike Gran]

> I tried to use g-golf on Guix recently, and gave up, because while Guix’
> guile-g-golf depends on glib@2.73.3, Guix’ gtk (GTK4) and gtk+ (GTK3,
> GTK2) depend on glib@2.72.3.  In other words, I believe that currently,
> g-golf cannot be used with gtk in Guix.  Upgrading gtk’s glib in the
> Guix source code caused issues with other software (that I’m sure
> someone someday will fix), though I do not remember exactly.  Using
> Fedora’s GTK with Guix’ might be possible with tricks, but normally the
> software in Guix is patched to make it use only software from Guix.

Yeah, guile-gi had the same problem on Guix. Working around it is hard.

I made a patchset where I linked GLib at runtime, but that created other problems.

No easy answers

-Mike Gran

Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

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Erik, following up on your idea about using --with-input, I used the
code equivalent of --with-input and wrote the attached manifest that
installs GTK with the same glib@2.73.3 as guile-g-golf (and also
upgrades g-golf to version 0.8.0-a.4 as recommended by David Pirotte).

guix shell -m guile-g-golf-with-gtk.scm

Unfortunately, GTK indirectly depends on python-pygobject@3.10.7 and its
test suite fails reproducibly for me with the newer glib.
(pygobject-test-suite gets killed by SIGTRAP.)  If you wanted to
investigate, you could try adding a --without-tests transformation to
disable pygobject’s test suite or see what Debian does differently.
Or unlikely maybe, pygobject would not fail on faster hardware?

I will not investigate further.

Regards,
Florian


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(use-modules (gnu packages glib)
             (gnu packages gtk)
             (gnu packages guile-xyz) ;for guile-g-golf
             (guix packages)
             (guix transformations))

(define rewrite-glib-to-glibnext
  (package-input-rewriting
   `((,glib . ,glib-next)
     (,gobject-introspection . ,gobject-introspection-next))))

(define rewrite-g-golf-to-a4
  (options->transformation
   ;; For some reason, with-version fails to find the git tags; use with-commit.
   '((with-commit . "guile-g-golf=66123dc74589843a5665234068c4a23767d34f0b"))))

(packages->manifest
 (list (rewrite-glib-to-glibnext gtk)
       (rewrite-g-golf-to-a4 guile-g-golf)))