Proton fails to build in Linux (arch)

Created on 10 Nov 2018 · 20Comments · Source: ValveSoftware/Proton

After completing what seems to be a full compile, this error appears and quits (previous line included for context):
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/two/proton/mybuild'
make: *** [../build/makefile_base.mak:15: nested_make] Error 2

Installed all necessary prereqs to the compile, cant figure out what it could be.

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redstik

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Hello @j-james, AUR packaging issues should be reported to the package maintainer (in the AUR).

kisak-valve on 16 Nov 2018

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How exactly did you try to build it?

Can you include the whole log? These two lines just say that something earlier has gone wrong.

ah- on 10 Nov 2018

I tried to make again, it reconfigured by the looks of it and just spat out those 2 lines. I dont know how to access the old log. Should I just recompile from scratch? also I used the guide in the readme with --no-steam-runtime

redstik on 10 Nov 2018

I've never successfully completed build with --no-steam-runtime, but it's pretty easy to build using Docker - so I would recommend doing that first. I documented all steps on wiki: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Build-instructions-(Fedora) - if you'll manage to build it on Arch, it would be nice to document it as well (preferably on separate page).

dreamer on 10 Nov 2018

@dreamer It doesnt build with the runtime, using make -j13 all dist. Logging it with STDERR as well, here is the file.
makej13alldist.log

redstik on 10 Nov 2018

@redstik you'll need to install fontforge. From your log:

fontforge -quiet -script ../fonts/scripts/generatefont.pe obj-fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.sfd "Arial" "Arial" "Arial"
/bin/sh: fontforge: command not found
make[1]: * [../build/makefile_base.mak:969: obj-fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf] Error 127
make[1]: * Waiting for unfinished jobs....

nsivov on 11 Nov 2018

after installing fontforge and compiling, it errors out again. here is the log after running make for the second time.
my.log
EDIT: running make install installs sucessfully, however the build fails to launch any games.

redstik on 11 Nov 2018

In file included from ../../include/d3d10sdklayers.h:31:0,
                 from ../../include/d3d10.h:5757,
                 from ../../include/d3d10_1.h:48,
                 from ../../include/d2d1.h:257,
                 from ../../../../wine/dlls/dwrite/dwrite_private.h:20,
                 from ../../../../wine/dlls/dwrite/analyzer.c:26:
../../include/ocidl.h:9:0: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault

Compiler crash.

lieff on 11 Nov 2018

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What should I do?

redstik on 11 Nov 2018

Well, most simple way - try another compiler version. Or try fire compiler bug, they will probably ask to try latest git, because bug can be already fixed upstream.

lieff on 12 Nov 2018

by the looks of it, this is a ryzen hardware issue.
after disabling ASLR echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
and toning down my overclock on CPU and RAM it compiled sucessfully.
Thanks.

redstik on 12 Nov 2018

did you try the AUR package?

Rabcor on 13 Nov 2018

@redstik I was able to duplicate this problem in a debian VM with my threadripper host cpu structure passed through, that resolved it for me as well

-edit-

that fix got past the first one, but it came back to haunt me again

-- Installing: /home/ge/proton/mybuild/obj-tools32/share/openal/presets/square.ambdec
-- Installing: /home/ge/proton/mybuild/obj-tools32/share/openal/presets/presets.txt
make: Leaving directory `/home/ge/proton/mybuild/obj-openal32'
mkdir -pv ./dist/dist/lib/wine/
mkdir -p ./dist/dist/lib64
mkdir -p ./dist/dist/lib
cp -a ./obj-lsteamclient64/lsteamclient.dll.so ./dist/dist/lib64/wine/
cp -L ./obj-tools64/lib/libopenal* ./dist/dist/lib64/
cp -a ./obj-lsteamclient32/lsteamclient.dll.so ./dist/dist/lib/wine/
cp -L ./obj-tools32/lib/libopenal* ./dist/dist/lib/
[ x"strip" = x ] || strip ./dist/dist/lib64/libopenal.so
[ x"strip" = x ] || strip ./dist/dist/lib/libopenal.so
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ge/proton/mybuild'
../build/makefile_base.mak:15: recipe for target 'nested_make' failed
make: *** [nested_make] Error 2

GloriousEggroll on 13 Nov 2018

I ran into problems when compiling with a -j4 flag. Compiling without the flag took longer but avoided some issues.

alasky17 on 13 Nov 2018

If you have a build failing for random reason like that, I suggest running make -j1 to see exactly what caused a failure. One of the common problems may be e.g. lack of some dependency or not initialized git submodule.

dreamer on 13 Nov 2018

fixed it. stupid fontforge wasn't installed

somehow missed that in this thread earlier. that should probably be added to the readme

GloriousEggroll on 13 Nov 2018

Yes, we missed adding fontforge to the readme. Sorry about that. It will be added soon.

aeikum on 14 Nov 2018

Adding onto this, the newest update also does not install on Manjaro (derivative of Arch). Here's my build log in a Gist. This is from the AUR, I have not tried compiling from source.

It doesn't seem to be the same error.