Akira: Difficulties to build the project from sources

[LucileDT]

Hi!

I'm sorry, I don't usually develop things which need to be compiled so I'm pretty new to technologies/methods used and I'm not really autonomous to solve my problems.

Your README explains in Building how to build the project but I run into several errors.

... | Configuration
------------ | -------------
OS | Ubuntu 16.04
Meson version | 0.29.0

Missing build folder

The first time I ran meson build --prefix=/usr, it gave me an error:

luciledt@computer:~/development/Akira$ meson build --prefix=/usr
Error during basic setup:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lucildt/development/Akira/build'

I needed to create manually the build folder so maybe you need to add this to the Building chapter.

ImportError: No module named 'mesonbuild.modules.i18n'

Then, when I run meson build --prefix=/usr, there is a lot of verbose and it ends with an error:

luciledt@computer:~/development/Akira$ meson build --prefix=/usr
The Meson build system
Version: 0.29.0
Source dir: /home/luciledt/development/Akira
Build dir: /home/luciledt/development/Akira/build
Build type: native build
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Project name: com.github.alecaddd.akira
Native vala compiler: valac (unknown 0.30.1)
Native c compiler: cc (gcc 5.4.0-6ubuntu1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 250, in run
     app.generate()
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 160, in generate
     intr.run()
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1028, in run
     self.evaluate_codeblock(self.ast)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1050, in evaluate_codeblock
     raise e
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1044, in evaluate_codeblock
     self.evaluate_statement(cur)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1162, in evaluate_statement
     return self.assignment(cur)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1976, in assignment
     value = self.evaluate_statement(node.value)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1160, in evaluate_statement
     return self.function_call(cur)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1957, in function_call
     return self.funcs[func_name](node, self.flatten(posargs), kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 70, in wrapped
     return f(self, node, args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 62, in wrapped
     return f(self, node, args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/meson/mesonbuild/interpreter.py", line 1097, in func_import
     module = importlib.import_module('mesonbuild.modules.' + modname).initialize()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'mesonbuild.modules.i18n'

It seems Meson can't get the module you use for translation, as specified in the meson.build file but I don't know Meson and I don't know how to solve this. Could you help me?

Thanks!

[elegaanz]

I think you should update Meson, the latest version is 0.46 and the i18n module should have been introduced after the 0.29.

[LucileDT]

Seems to do the trick (I don't have the error anymore), I'll keep you updated if I manage to build the project!
Maybe it would be necessary to update the README and precise the needed minimal version of Meson :slightly_smiling_face:

[Alecaddd]

Closing this as the project is not even close to alpha and it's normal to be pretty broken.