[SOLVED] glib can't be found, despite being in use on machine

wnaBee · 2021-08-01 23:23:49

I'm trying to compile surf by suckless, running make i get the following error:

surf build options:
CC            = c99
Package gcr-3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gcr-3.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'virtual:world', not found
CFLAGS        = -fPIC   -DVERSION="2.1" -DGCR_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE  -DLIBPREFIX="/usr/local/lib" -DWEBEXTDIR="/usr/local/lib/surf"  -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -O1
WEBEXTCFLAGS  = -fPIC -I/usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/lzo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cloudproviders -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread  -O1
LDFLAGS       =
c99 -fPIC `pkg-config --cflags x11` `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0 gcr-3 webkit2gtk-4.0` -DVERSION=\"2.1\" -DGCR_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE  -DLIBPREFIX=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DWEBEXTDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/surf\"  -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -O1 -c surf.c
Package gcr-3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gcr-3.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'virtual:world', not found
surf.c:9:10: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory
    9 | #include <glib.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:31: surf.o] Error 1

I figured out that make can't find glib at usr/include/glib-2.0 or /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include however checking there shows that glib is in fact installed. So i changed <glib.h> to <glib-2.0/glib.h>, this solved the issue but now make instead returned:

surf build options:
CC            = c99
Package gcr-3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gcr-3.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'virtual:world', not found
CFLAGS        = -fPIC   -DVERSION="2.1" -DGCR_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE  -DLIBPREFIX="/usr/local/lib" -DWEBEXTDIR="/usr/local/lib/surf"  -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -O1
WEBEXTCFLAGS  = -fPIC -I/usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/lzo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cloudproviders -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread  -O1
LDFLAGS       =
c99 -fPIC `pkg-config --cflags x11` `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0 gcr-3 webkit2gtk-4.0` -DVERSION=\"2.1\" -DGCR_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE  -DLIBPREFIX=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DWEBEXTDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/surf\"  -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -O1 -c surf.c
Package gcr-3 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gcr-3.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gcr-3', required by 'virtual:world', not found
In file included from surf.c:9:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30:10: fatal error: glib/galloca.h: No such file or directory
   30 | #include <glib/galloca.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:31: surf.o] Error 1

Which means that glib can't find itself for compilation. Strangely however it is being used for other programs installed on the system.
My question then is, how can i change the cflag to find glib so that i don't have to manually add glib-2.0/ to every single #include.

P.S. this is a brand new Vbox machine arch install running dwm (if that's relevant).

Last edited by wnaBee (2021-08-02 10:48:01)

lmn · 2021-08-01 23:39:52

You can add the cflags and the clibs to the config.mk inside the build directory, instead of patching the includes directly.

You can list all targets by

pkg-config --list-all

and then look for glib.

I was too hasty, your missing a depenency on gcr, see the AUR package for more.

Last edited by lmn (2021-08-01 23:48:18)

WorMzy · 2021-08-02 01:00:17

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

wnaBee · 2021-08-02 10:47:39

lmn wrote:

You can add the cflags and the clibs to the config.mk inside the build directory, instead of patching the includes directly.
You can list all targets by
pkg-config --list-all
and then look for glib.
I was too hasty, your missing a depenency on gcr, see the AUR package for more.

Aaah, i see i installed gcr and it compiled fine, big thanks!
Always remember your dependencies!

Last edited by wnaBee (2021-08-02 10:48:33)

josh68 · 2023-04-14 16:21:31

I'm having this problem, and installing gcr isn't the issue

Output of

pkg-config --list-all

xmlsec1-openssl   xmlsec1-openssl - XML Security Library implements XML Signature and XML Encryption standards
xmlsec1           xmlsec1-openssl - XML Security Library implements XML Signature and XML Encryption standards
libevent_core     libevent_core - libevent_core
ncurses           ncursesw - ncurses 6.3 library
ncursesw          ncursesw - ncurses 6.3 library
menu              menuw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
bdw-gc            Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector - A garbage collector for C and C++
nss               NSS - Mozilla Network Security Services
gpg-error         gpg-error - GPG Runtime
xmlsec1-gcrypt    xmlsec1-gcrypt - XML Security Library implements XML Signature and XML Encryption standards
nspr              NSPR - The Netscape Portable Runtime
nettle            Nettle - Nettle low-level cryptographic library (symmetric algorithms)
p11-kit-1         p11-kit - Library and proxy module for properly loading and sharing PKCS
gmpxx             GNU MP C++ - GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (C++ bindings)
panelw            panelw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
libpskc           Libpskc - Library for Portable Symmetric Key Container
libxml-2.0        libXML - libXML library version2.
stoken            stoken - Software token
hogweed           Hogweed - Nettle low-level cryptographic library (public-key algorithms)
ncurses++w        ncurses++w - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
guile-3.0         GNU Guile - GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension
libidn2           libidn2 - Library implementing IDNA2008 and TR46
libffi            libffi - Library supporting Foreign Function Interfaces
gmp               GNU MP - GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
panel             panelw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
libevent_openssl  libevent_openssl - libevent_openssl adds openssl-based TLS support to libevent
sqlite3           SQLite - SQL database engine
libcrypto         OpenSSL-libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptography library
openssl           OpenSSL - Secure Sockets Layer and cryptography libraries and tools
libgcrypt         libgcrypt - General purpose cryptographic library
jemalloc          jemalloc - A general purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support.
autoopts          AutoOpts - A semi-automated generated/library option parser
libevent_extra    libevent_extra - libevent_extra
libssl            OpenSSL-libssl - Secure Sockets Layer and cryptography libraries
expat             expat - expat XML parser
gnutls-dane       GnuTLS-DANE - DANE security library for the GNU system
libnghttp2        libnghttp2 - HTTP/2 C library
xmlsec1-gnutls    xmlsec1-gnutls - XML Security Library implements XML Signature and XML Encryption standards
liboath           Liboath - Library for Open AuTHentication (OATH) HOTP etc support.
zlib              zlib - zlib compression library
gnutls            GnuTLS - Transport Security Layer implementation for the GNU system
libevent_pthreads libevent_pthreads - libevent_pthreads adds pthreads-based threading support to libevent
menuw             menuw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
form              formw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
openconnect       openconnect - OpenConnect VPN client
libcares          c-ares - asynchronous DNS lookup library
readline          Readline - Gnu Readline library for command line editing
libevent          libevent - libevent is an asynchronous notification event loop library
formw             formw - ncurses 6.3 add-on library
libunbound        unbound - Library with validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
libtasn1          libtasn1 - Library for ASN.1 and DER manipulation

Thanks for any ideas

Scimmia · 2023-04-14 16:24:52

If you had the same issue, installing gcr would be the issue. If that doesn't do it, make a new thread with full logs.

josh68 · 2023-04-14 16:45:49

Scimmia wrote:

If you had the same issue, installing gcr would be the issue. If that doesn't do it, make a new thread with full logs.

You're right. My problem is only what's in the title. Currently, it's

checking for GLIB... no
configure: error: Glib >= 2.18.0+ is required

But then

pacman -Q --info glib2
Name            : glib2
Version         : 2.76.1-1
Description     : Low level core library
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : [url]https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib[/url]
Licenses        : LGPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : libglib-2.0.so=0-64  libgio-2.0.so=0-64  libgmodule-2.0.so=0-64  libgobject-2.0.so=0-64  libgthread-2.0.so=0-64
Depends On      : libffi  libsysprof-capture  pcre2  util-linux-libs  zlib  libffi.so=8-64  libmount.so=1-64
Optional Deps   : gvfs: most gio functionality [installed]
                  libelf: gresource inspection tool [installed]
                  python: gdbus-codegen, glib-genmarshal, glib-mkenums, gtester-report [installed]
Required By     : accountsservice  at-spi2-core  audacity  avahi  bluez  bluez-utils-compat  cairo  cinnamon-menus  dbus-glib  dbus-python
                  dconf  desktop-file-utils  enchant  flatpak  fprintd  gcab  gcr-4  gdk-pixbuf2  geocode-glib-common  glib-networking
                  glib-perl  glibmm  glyr  gmime3  gnome-autoar  gnome-firmware  gnome-menus  granite  graphene  gsettings-desktop-schemas
                  gsound  gspell  gssdp  gstreamer  gstreamer0.10  gtk3  gtk4  gtkmathview  gts  gupnp  gupnp-dlna  gupnp-igd  harfbuzz
                  irssi  json-glib  lensfun  lib32-glib2  libass  libcheese  libcloudproviders  libcolord  libcroco  libdbusmenu-glib
                  libfm-extra  libgdm  libgee  libgexiv2  libgirepository  libgrss  libgtop  libgudev  libgusb  libgxps  libhandy  libibus
                  libical  liblqr  libmalcontent  libmbim  libmediainfo  libmm-glib  libmypaint  libnautilus-extension  libnice  libnm
                  libnotify  libosinfo  libots  libpamac  libplist-git  libportal  libproxy  libqrtr-glib  libratbag  librest  librsvg
                  libsecret  libsoup  libsoup3  libspeechd  libwacom  libxfce4util  libxklavier  libxmlb  lightdm  loudmouth  modemmanager
                  ostree  pantheon-terminal  pinentry  pipewire  polkit  poppler-glib  pragha  sane  shared-mime-info  totem-pl-parser
                  tracker3  upower  webkit2gtk  webkit2gtk-4.1  webkit2gtk-5.0  wpebackend-fdo  wv  xdg-dbus-proxy  xdg-desktop-portal
                  zoom
Optional For    : libpulse  suil  visual-studio-code-bin
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 23.61 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 22 Mar 2023 06:06:39 AM PDT
Install Date    : Mon 10 Apr 2023 11:20:12 PM PDT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

New thread?

WorMzy · 2023-04-14 20:45:50

Yes please.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … ow_to_post
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing this old, solved thread.

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#1 2021-08-01 23:23:49

[SOLVED] glib can't be found, despite being in use on machine

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