compiling from source fails - what are the requirements?

[4levels]

Hi,

I'm using NixOS for my servers and local VM's but I can't get optipng-bin to compile successfully when being installed via an npm dependency.
I've been tweaking and testing for well over a month now but all to no avail. Can you please help and tell us what specific libraries are expected to be where exactly?

This is the (consistent) error message I keep getting:

Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c make install
pngrtran.c:99:1: warning: ‘png_rtran_ok’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 png_rtran_ok(png_structrp png_ptr, int need_IHDR)
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~
ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U')
/nix/store/0y7jmqnj48ikjh37n3dl9kqw9hnn68nq-binutils-2.31.1/bin/ld: pngtest.o: undefined reference to symbol 'stdout@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/nix/store/0y7jmqnj48ikjh37n3dl9kqw9hnn68nq-binutils-2.31.1/bin/ld: /nix/store/681354n3k44r8z90m35hm8945vsp95h1-glibc-2.27/lib/libc.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line

Thanks a lot in advance!

[4levels]

I just started afresh by downloading the optipng source archive from this repo and compiling it manually, using the info found here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/bd6ba87381ef6274a830253b60e481209d4d7c7d/pkgs/tools/graphics/optipng/default.nix
When I add the extra configure option --with-system-libpng I get the following error:

bin/ld: optipng.o: undefined reference to symbol 'fflush@@GLIBC_2.2.5'

When I however add the following env var before running configure and run ./configure and make install again, it works!

export LD=$CC
./configure  --with-system-zlib --prefix="vendor" --bindir="vendor" --with-system-libpng
make install

When adjusting the install.js file accordingly, it finally works! (sorry, being excited atm)

// From https://sourceforge.net/projects/optipng/files/OptiPNG/
await binBuild.file(path.resolve(__dirname, '../vendor/source/optipng.tar.gz'), [
	`LD=$CC ./configure --with-system-zlib --with-system-libpng --prefix="${bin.dest()}" --bindir="${bin.dest()}"`,
	'LD=$CC make install'
]);

[4levels]

Ok, final update. I tried more experiments with my own fork, and I can get it to work by simply calling LD=$CC npm install, without using my fork and it's adjustments. So feel free to close this issue, might be interesting for future developers though when building on non-standardized OS'es..
Might also be related to #92

[chpio]

Ok, final update. I tried more experiments with my own fork, and I can get it to work by simply calling LD=$CC npm install, without using my fork and it's adjustments.

thank you, putting this into your shell.nixs mkDerivation seem to work.

	pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
		# name = "...";

		# buildInputs = [...];

		# workaround for npm dep compilation
		# https://github.com/imagemin/optipng-bin/issues/108
		shellHook = ''
			LD=$CC
		'';
	}

[miniBill]

I fixed it with:
nix-shell -p zlib
and then inside the shell

export LD=$CC
npm install ...

[happysalada]

Thanks for the proposed fix, with it, I get the following error and stacktrace

  ⚠ spawn /root/union/assets/node_modules/.pnpm/jpegtran-bin@5.0.2/node_modules/jpegtran-bin/vendor/jp
│   ⚠ jpegtran pre-build test failed
│   ℹ compiling from source
│   ✖ Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c ./configure --disable-shared --prefix="/root/union/assets/node_m
│ ./configure: line 8050: /usr/bin/file: No such file or directory
│ configure: error: no nasm (Netwide Assembler) found
│ checking for a BSD-compatible install... /nix/store/485sqh570qixsv9wk0d59vrvs35pqja0-coreutils-8.32/bi
│ checking whether build environment is sane... yes
│ checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /nix/store/485sqh570qixsv9wk0d59vrvs35pqja0-coreutils-8.32/bin/
│ checking for gawk... gawk
│ checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
│ checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
│ checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
│ checking for style of include used by make... GNU
│ checking for gcc... gcc
│ checking whether the C compiler works... yes
│ checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
│ checking for suffix of executables...
│ checking whether we are cross compiling... no
│ checking for suffix of object files... o
│ checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
│ checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
│ checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
│ checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
│ checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
│ checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
│ checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
│ checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
│ checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
│ checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
│ checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
│ checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
│ checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
│ checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
│ checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
│ checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
│ checking how to print strings... printf
│ checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /nix/store/xyd1a8i3sn1iah73sr3p15fx3y9v0rkc-gnused
│ checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /nix/store/x604v97a5yi0yc07zfid76n7xqbcykmj-gnugre
│ checking for egrep... /nix/store/x604v97a5yi0yc07zfid76n7xqbcykmj-gnugrep-3.6/bin/grep -E
│ checking for fgrep... /nix/store/x604v97a5yi0yc07zfid76n7xqbcykmj-gnugrep-3.6/bin/grep -F
│ checking for ld used by gcc... gcc
│ checking if the linker (gcc) is GNU ld... no
│ checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... nm
│ checking the name lister (nm) interface... BSD nm
│ checking whether ln -s works... yes
│ checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 12582912
│ checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func
│ checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_n
│ checking for gcc option to reload object files... -r
│ checking for objdump... objdump
│ checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
│ checking for dlltool... no
│ checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
│ checking for archiver @FILE support... @
│ checking for strip... strip
│ checking for ranlib... ranlib
│ checking command to parse nm output from gcc object... ok
│ checking for sysroot... no
│ checking for a working dd... /nix/store/485sqh570qixsv9wk0d59vrvs35pqja0-coreutils-8.32/bin/dd
│ checking how to truncate binary pipes... /nix/store/485sqh570qixsv9wk0d59vrvs35pqja0-coreutils-8.32/bi
│ checking for mt... no
│ checking if : is a manifest tool... no
│ checking for ANSI C header files... yes
│ checking for sys/types.h... yes
│ checking for sys/stat.h... yes
│ checking for stdlib.h... yes
│ checking for string.h... yes
│ checking for memory.h... yes
│ checking for strings.h... yes
│ checking for inttypes.h... yes
│ checking for stdint.h... yes
│ checking for unistd.h... yes
│ checking for dlfcn.h... yes
│ checking for objdir... .libs
│ checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
│ checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
│ checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
│ checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
│ checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
│ checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
│ checking whether the gcc linker (gcc) supports shared libraries... yes
│ checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
│ checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
│ checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
│ checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
│ checking whether to build shared libraries... no
│ checking whether to build static libraries... yes
│ checking whether ln -s works... yes
│ checking for pkg-config... no
│ checking size of size_t... 8
│ checking whether compiler supports pointers to undefined structures... yes
│ checking whether __SUNPRO_C is declared... no
│ checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
│ checking stddef.h usability... yes
│ checking stddef.h presence... yes
│ checking for stddef.h... yes
│ checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
│ checking locale.h usability... yes
│ checking locale.h presence... yes
│ checking for locale.h... yes
│ checking for string.h... (cached) yes
│ checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
│ checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
│ checking whether char is unsigned... no
│ checking for inline... inline
│ checking for size_t... yes
│ checking for unsigned char... yes
│ checking for unsigned short... yes
│ checking if right shift is signed... yes
│ checking for memset... yes
│ checking for memcpy... yes
│ checking libjpeg API version... 6.2
│ checking whether to include in-memory source/destination managers... yes
│ checking libjpeg shared library version... 62.2.0
│ checking whether the linker supports version scripts... yes (GNU style)
│ checking whether to use version script when building libjpeg-turbo... yes
│ checking for inline... inline __attribute__((always_inline))
│ checking whether to include arithmetic encoding support... yes
│ checking whether to include arithmetic decoding support... yes
│ checking whether to use 12-bit samples... no
│ checking whether to build TurboJPEG C wrapper... yes
│ checking whether to build TurboJPEG Java wrapper... no
│ checking if we have SIMD optimisations for cpu type... yes (x86_64)
│ checking for nasm... no
│ checking for nasmw... no
│ checking for yasm... no
│     at /root/union/assets/node_modules/.pnpm/execa@0.7.0/node_modules/execa/index.js:231:11
│     at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
│     at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
│     at async Promise.all (index 0)
└─ Failed in 2.5s
node_modules/.pnpm/cssnano@5.0.0_postcss@8.2.10/node_modules/cssnano: Running postinstall script, done in 35ms
node_modules/.pnpm/optipng-bin@7.0.0/node_modules/optipng-bin: Running postinstall script...
 ERROR  Command failed with exit code 1.

I added zlib libpng optipng as a dependency.
When I try to install this library, it fails on the postinstall script.
Interested in any idea.

[juboba]

@happysalada add nasm to the mix!