Re: Compiling gnome-sudoku on Ubuntu 16.04 (standard unity desktop)

[Igor Lopez <igor lopez bredband net>]

Thanks it took a while.

I had to run a

  $ jhbuild sysdeps --install

first which installed a humongous number of packages that I just did not feel to go through so I just installed them.

Then when I ran the 

  $ jhbuild build gnome-sudoku

it built a lot of modules under 

 ~/jhbuild/checkout

 ~/jhbuild/install

but the final result is good.

Now its time for some vala hacking.

2016-07-26 17:01 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>:

On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 16:41 +0200, Igor Lopez wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I ran the apt-get build-dep gnome-sudoku which then added the
> following
> packages:
>
>   appstream-util cdbs dh-autoreconf dh-translations gnome-common
> gnome-pkg-tools libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatspi2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev
> libegl1-mesa-dev libepoxy-dev libgtk-3-dev
>   libjson-glib-dev libmirclient-dev libmircommon-dev libmircookie-dev
> libmircookie2 libprotobuf-dev libqqwing-dev libwayland-dev
> libxkbcommon-dev
> libxtst-dev nettle-dev
>   python-pkg-resources python-scour python-six x11proto-record-dev
>
> and one of them is libgtk-3-dev
>
> The build does not yet work but the issue is slightly different:
>
> checking for GNOME_SUDOKU... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (
>   glib-2.0 >= 2.40.0
>   gio-2.0 >= 2.40.0
>   gtk+-3.0 >= 3.19.0
>   gee-0.8
> ) were not met:
>
> Requested 'gtk+-3.0 >= 3.19.0' but version of GTK+ is 3.18.9

I would recommend using JHBuild for this, so that you don't have to
fight an uphill battle against old versions of dependencies in Ubuntu.
Just follow this tutorial and replace gnome-weather with gnome-sudoku:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/BuildGnome

Hope that helps,

Michael