Problems building in Fedora 40, due to missing depenencies. (Specifically docker container, but probably Fedora in general.)

[garrett]

Problems building in Fedora 40, due to missing depenencies. (Specifically docker container, but probably Fedora in general.)

[johnsonm]

Pyside2 was dropped from Fedora a few releases ago, I think due to not keeping up with Python3 versions. I expect this build not to function right until FreeCAD moves to Pyside6 and Qt6, whenever that is.

[howie-j]

Correct, fedora 38 was the last version with all dependencies necessary to build freecad. I use a toolbox with fedora 38 as the base image to build and run freecad, works perfectly: https://github.com/howie-j/freecad-development-setup/tree/main

[johnsonm]

In a debian container, I tried using the packages from the docker build script tools/build/Docker/debian.sh

apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes build-essential cmake doxygen \
    git libboost-date-time-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
    libboost-graph-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-program-options-dev \
    libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev \
    libboost-thread-dev libcoin-dev libeigen3-dev libgtkglext1-dev libgts-dev \
    libkdtree++-dev libkml-dev libmedc-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev \
    libocct-draw-dev libocct-foundation-dev libocct-modeling-algorithms-dev \
    libocct-modeling-data-dev libocct-ocaf-dev libocct-visualization-dev \
    libopencv-dev libproj-dev libpyside2-dev libqt5svg5-dev \
    libshiboken2-dev libvtk9-dev libvtk9-qt-dev \
    libvtk-dicom-dev libx11-dev libxerces-c-dev libxmu-dev libxmuu-dev \
    libzipios++-dev netgen netgen-headers pyside2-tools python3-dev \
    python3-matplotlib python3-pivy python3-ply python3-pyside2.qtsvg \
    python3-pyside2.qtuitools qtchooser qttools5-dev shiboken2 swig

However, that missed libyaml-cpp-dev and libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev and python3-pyside2.qtnetwork that are now required.

[johnsonm]

I see that d51d2f6 removed libqt5xmlpattherns5-dev but the build failed with it removed, so I don't really know where that bug is exactly...

[yorikvanhavre]

In a debian container, I tried using the packages from the docker build script tools/build/Docker/debian.sh However, that missed libyaml-cpp-dev and libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev and python3-pyside2.qtnetwork that are now required.

The wiki instructions are up-to-date: https://wiki.freecad.org/Compile_on_Linux but indeed that build script needs to be updated.

[johnsonm]

True but less helpful. ☺

Cutting and pasting from a long bullet list of package names, or worse, re-typing, is mind-numbing.

If the wiki instructions linked to those scripts and they were kept up to date as the primary way of listing the packages, it would sure be easier to use...