deps/notcurses/src/lib/signal.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound

[xyproto]

Hi,

I'm using Zig 0.8.1 on Arch Linux.

After cloning notcurses-zig-example and running zig build run, I get this output on stderr:

/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/signal.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/tree.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/sprite.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/reader.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/progbar.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/plot.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/notcurses.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/metric.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/menu.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/linux.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/tabbed.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/layout.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/kitty.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/compat/compat.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/input.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fd.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fill.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/reel.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fade.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/direct.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/debug.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/stats.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/visual.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/blit.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/render.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/sixel.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/selector.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/termdesc.c:1:1: error: unable to build C object: unable to build C object: FileNotFound
notcurses...The following command exited with error code 1:
/usr/bin/zig build-lib -lc -lncursesw -lreadline -lunistring -lz -cflags -DUSE_MULTIMEDIA=none -DUSE_QRCODEGEN=OFF -DPOLLRDHUP=0x2000 -- /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/blit.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/debug.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/direct.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fade.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fd.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/fill.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/input.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/kitty.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/layout.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/linux.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/menu.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/metric.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/notcurses.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/plot.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/progbar.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/reader.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/reel.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/render.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/selector.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/signal.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/sixel.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/sprite.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/stats.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/tabbed.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/termdesc.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/tree.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/lib/visual.c /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src/compat/compat.c --cache-dir /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/zig-cache --global-cache-dir /home/afr/.cache/zig --name notcurses -I /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/include -I /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/build/include -I /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/deps/notcurses/src -D _DEFAULT_SOURCE -D _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D _DEFAULT_SOURCE -D _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 --enable-cache 
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/zig-cache/o/a858eb2a86d43fb006761c9aaa690772/build /usr/bin/zig /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example /home/afr/clones/notcurses-zig-example/zig-cache /home/afr/.cache/zig run

[dundalek]

It looks like you are missing Notcurses source files which needs to be cloned separately. Did you try to follow the instructions in https://github.com/dundalek/notcurses-zig-example#dependencies ?

[xyproto]

No, I didn't notice that. Could that be a git submodule and/or part of what the build.zig program is doing perhaps?

[phanirithvij]

I agree, it could be a submodule with the tag pinned.