[compiling from source] Header exists, -I correct_path, Header not found.

Michael Uplawski · 04-23-2022, 02:23 AM

Good morning

I try to compile w3m from source and get the following error during Make:

Code:

x11_w3mimg.c:16:10: fatal error: glib-object.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
   16 | #include <glib-object.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

... meaning: “File or directory not found”.

I checked that the file is found somewhere and get

Code:

zaphod@heart_of_gold:~/prog/foreign/w3m$ locate glib-object.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h

The header file looks alright, too.

The makefile generated from ./configure contains the right references, as far as I can say, notably /usr/include/glib-2.0:

Code:

a_pony@free:~/prog/foreign/w3m$ cat Makefile | grep IMGCFLAGS
IMGCFLAGS =  -pthread -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include

What can I do to make the existing glib-object.h palatable to this Makefile?

hazel · 04-23-2022, 05:42 AM

Just a thought...is there a pkgconfig file for it?

Michael Uplawski · 04-23-2022, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

Just a thought...is there a pkgconfig file for it?

Do not see any.

I believe that w3mimg is so old that I should probably stop to care. And as autoconf already discovers a bunch of obsolete macros, I wonder if I should bother to compile w3m at all...

I bet that, should I solve the header-problem, there will be others.

ondoho · 04-24-2022, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

I believe that w3mimg is so old that I should probably stop to care.

If w3mimg's functionality is what you're ultimately after, You might want to take a look at https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug
See it in action with ytfzf:

Michael Uplawski · 04-24-2022, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

If w3mimg's functionality is what you're ultimately after, You might want to take a look at https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug
See it in action with ytfzf:

Thank you very much! This is probably a better idea than to compile a component which does apparently not appeal to many, these days.

And aah! The Poplawski family and their achievements. I see changes and that search-engines have found me.., but you still get a lot of Poplawski.

Cheerio.

pan64 · 04-24-2022, 03:05 PM

probably not important any more: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...clude-filename

Michael Uplawski · 04-24-2022, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

probably not important any more: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...clude-filename

This is always important

But #include <glib-object.h> is correct and should suffice to include the header, as the “Include-Path” is also set in the relevant Makefile.