"connectiq" dependencies on Linux

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi.

I just dowloaded the SDK for Linux and, when trying to run the "connectiq" binary, I found it relies (dynamically) on some libraries ("webkitgtk") no longer supported on newer distros (ex: "Arch").

The issue can be solved by manually compiling the (deprecated) "libwebkitgtk-1.0.so" and "libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0.so" libraries, placing them in a folder, and using LD_LIBRARY_PATH before executing "connectiq".

However, this got me thinking... is there any reason why the SDK is not open source? This way not only would we be able to update it to use newer libraries, but probably also help with bugs and/or add new features.

Is open sourcing the SDK somewhere in the future roadmap?

Thanks!

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Travis.ConnectIQ over 7 years ago in reply to TheGeekRider +2

You can download archives of the jpeg-ijg libraries directly from the Independent JPEG Group here

https://www.ijg.org/files/

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CedricD. over 7 years ago +2

On Debian/Buster: one also need " libwebkitgtk-1.0-0" and "libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0" (which I haven't succeeded to "forward-port" from Strech yet)

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gregrowe1231 over 4 years ago

I just installed on Debian 11. My notes for working around the dependency issues for SDK Manager can be found here. I did two things. First I added the old 'stretch' distribution of Debian to apt so I could resolve the libwebkitgtk dependency cleanly. For the other problematic dependency, libjpeg8, I downloaded the package from an archive of 'wheezy'. The links are all included in my notes.