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over 2 years ago

Upgrade SDK deps so modern Linux distros work.

I can't use the simulator and thus connectiq on Fedora 30.  I assume all modern distros are affected because libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 is way too old to be included or even available on current generation distributions.

Please update your deps or better yet compile the simulator statically so it doesn't require ancient libraries.

JustinMayfield
  • over 4 years ago

    I got the same problem. I have tried to circumvent this by running the apps/simulator on MacOS Catalina but their security restrictions prevent me from doing that. Basically I got no avenues to use your SDK on any of my machines, this is demoralizing!

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Coleman.Apps

    Do you have any plans defined to solve this issue?

    I encouter similar issues with webkit on Arch Linux:

    /home/al/src/connectiq-sdk/bin/simulator: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: ucol_getLocaleByType_64

    I also had to manually install old libraries and do some manual symlinks to new library version to come to that blocking point.

    Thanks for your help.

  • over 4 years ago in reply to JAT_R

    I've checked the missing libraries and installed libraries compiled for newer versions. I'm not sure if simulator links will be updated but libraries with newer file structure works fine on Kubuntu.

  • over 4 years ago

    Guess i should have known this before trying the simulator. At least add a note on the programmer guide to advise against newer linux distros.

    Any predictions when the libs will be updated.

  • over 5 years ago

    I upgraded my Kubuntu version to 19.10 and later tried to install everything again. This time I succeeded installing libpng12 libray successfully. The issue was older version .deb libraries had a different folder structure than current versions, so libpng12 installation wasn't successful. I found a version that's compiled with newer file structure, so everything seem to work now.