Re: Compiling libvirt on ubuntu

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 01:36:57 +0000, Or Ozeri wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm trying to compile libvirt on ubuntu machine. > I installed meson 0.59.1 using pip. > Then installed a few more packages that were required by meson build: > sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils xsltproc libpciaccess-dev ninja-build > > > > Finally, I followed the simple instructions over here: https://libvirt.org/compiling.html > > xz -dc libvirt-7.7.0.tar.xz | tar xvf - > cd libvirt-7.7.0 > meson build > ninja -C build > > The last command fails with: > > FAILED: src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0 > cc -o src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0 src/libvirt_probes.o src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0.p/meson-generated_.._admin_admin_protocol.c.o src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0.p/admin_libvirt-admin.c.o src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0.p/datatypes.c.o -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined -shared -fPIC -Wl,--start-group -Wl,-soname,libvirt-admin.so.0 '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/oro/ozeri/libvirt-7.7.0/build/src src/libvirt.so.0.7007.0 -Wl,--version-script=/home/oro/ozeri/libvirt-7.7.0/build/src/admin/libvirt_admin.syms -Wl,-z,nodelete /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libdevmapper.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libyajl.so -Wl,--end-grou p > /usr/bin/ld: src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0.p/admin_libvirt-admin.c.o: in function `callFull': > /home/oro/ozeri/libvirt-7.7.0/build/../src/admin/admin_remote.c:99: undefined reference to `virNetClientProgramCall' > /usr/bin/ld: src/libvirt-admin.so.0.7007.0.p/admin_libvirt-admin.c.o: in function `remoteAdminConnectClose': > /home/oro/ozeri/libvirt-7.7.0/build/../src/admin/admin_remote.c:197: undefined reference to `virNetClientSetCloseCallback' You've seem to have run into the same issue that is reported as: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/196 If I read the issue correctly the following should fix it for you: meson build -Ddriver_remote=enabled