Trouble building kde-pim using kdesrc-build

[Shashwat Jolly]

Hey!

dvratil, thanks a lot. :D Finally got PIM up and running. :)

The issue did turn out to be the environment variables. Actually the script
suggested to be sourced in the wiki (
https://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Development ) has certain paths as
*/lib64/*. All the directories on my PC were actually at
*/ib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*. So it wasn't finding the installed packages.
Maybe we can add this as an example of how the paths need to be adjusted in
the wiki? Might help other beginners like myself.

Also, I did face difficulties in getting all the dependencies for all the
modules. Maybe consider adding this link I stumbled upon later to the KDE
PIM wiki too? :
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Install_the_dependencies

A step-by-step guide would help a lot IMO:

1. Install all non-KDE dependencies from the above list
2. Remove qt includes from the kdesrc-buildrc file (as it already got
installed in the first step)
3. Add the includes already mentioned in the wiki to kdesrc-buildrc
4. Run kdesrc-build and figure out more non-KDE packages to be installed by
checking the error logs (Some packages like xsdcxx and libkolabxml-dev
aren't mentioned in the above list)
5. Once build is passing, modify the script paths to reflect your system
6. Install runtime dependencies (mariadb-server/postgresql)
6. Source script and run :)

Might be very basic, but caused a bit of trouble to a newbie like me :P

Again, thanks a lot! :)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:12 AM Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:49:29 CET Shashwat Jolly wrote:
> > I am running a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.10.
> >
> > - When I followed the first method (sudo apt build-dep on failing
> modules),
> > akonadi started up fine. Then I was able to open up korganizer, but it
> > crashed when I tried to create a new event.
> > Error log: https://pastebin.com/x6gDYAVH
>
> This looks like you are mixing the distro-provided packages and the self-
> compiled ones.
>
> Check this guide: https://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Development it
> contains
> some environment settings to install PIM into an external directory so it
> doesn't clash with the system packages.
>
> >
> > I redid the entire process on a fresh install and still got more errors
> > (different this time):
> >
> > parse error from icalcomponent_new_from_string. string= ""
> >
> > > org.kde.pim.calendar_serializer: Failed to parse incidence! Item id = 3
> > > Storage collection id 13 parentCollectionId = 13
> > > org.kde.pim.calendar_serializer: ""
> > > org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Unable to deserialize payload part: "RFC822"
> in
> > > item 3 collection 13
> > > org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Payload data was: ""
>
> Looks like Akonadi is not finding the plugins, the link above wil probably
> help.
>
>
> > Maybe the event title is being parsed as an empty string?
> >
> > Also, kontact opened up as a blank window, kmail seemed to work and even
> > saved drafts (though I did not connect my account). All PIM applications
> > (korganizer, kontact, kmail) had the error "Shared library was not found"
> > when I opened up their settings.
> >
> > - I tried the second method as I thought I would be able to get all
> non-KDE
> > dependencies from the packages listed in the Dockerfile, but the Docker
> > image is based on KDE neon and I am running Ubuntu 19.10, which is
> probably
> > why I still got missing dependencies.
> >
> > Any inputs are appreciated, I'm kind of stuck here :|
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:29 PM Shashwat Jolly <shashwat.jolly at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was trying to build kde-pim using kdesrc-build and was having trouble
> > > getting all the dependencies. I've tried the following things:
> > >
> > > - "sudo apt build-dep <module>" on every module that fails to build
> > >
> > > This I think also installs the released versions of the modules being
> > > built, and these conflicts cause problems. Eg: when I run korganizer,
> I'm
> > > unable to create a new event etc.
> > >
> > > - I cloned the kdepim-docker repo (
> > > https://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Docker) and installed all packages
> > > listed there. The list was apparently not exhaustive as I'm still
> getting
> > > many missing dependencies in many modules.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions on how I can smooth this out? I want to build PIM and
> > > work on kontact, kmail etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Shashwat Jolly
>
>
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-Shashwat Jolly
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