Cannot install libsystemd with vcpkg, Redis challenge on C++

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Hi everyone,

My work uses libsystemd extensively for its event loop (sd-event) and dbus client (sd-bus) library, so I would like to use it to do the Redis challenge.

I added libsystemd to vcpkg.json, but when building on remote, it failed:

Error log 
remote: [build] > CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_execute_required_process.cmake:127 (message):
remote: [build] >     Command failed: /usr/bin/python3 -I /vcpkg/downloads/tools/meson-1.3.2-d646d3/meson.py -Dmode=release -Dstatic-libsystemd=pic -Dtests=false -Ddns-over-tls=false -Dlz4=enabled -Dtranslations=false -Dxz=enabled -Dzstd=enabled --backend ninja --wrap-mode nodownload -Dbuildtype=plain -Doptimization=plain --libdir lib --native /vcpkg/buildtrees/libsystemd/meson-x64-linux-dbg.log -Ddebug=true --prefix /vcpkg/packages/libsystemd_x64-linux/debug --includedir ../include -Dcmake_prefix_path=['/app/vcpkg_installed/x64-linux/debug','/app/vcpkg_installed/x64-linux'] /vcpkg/buildtrees/libsystemd/src/v255-948a7f2e81.clean
remote: [build] >     Working Directory: /vcpkg/buildtrees/libsystemd/x64-linux-dbg
remote: [build] >     Error code: 1
remote: [build] >     See logs for more information:
remote: [build] >       /vcpkg/buildtrees/libsystemd/config-x64-linux-dbg-meson-log.txt.log
remote: [build] >       /vcpkg/buildtrees/libsystemd/config-x64-linux-dbg-out.log
remote: [build] > 
remote: [build] > Call Stack (most recent call first):
remote: [build] >   /app/vcpkg_installed/x64-linux/share/vcpkg-tool-meson/vcpkg_configure_meson.cmake:436 (vcpkg_execute_required_process)
remote: [build] >   /root/.cache/vcpkg/registries/git-trees/a69dc63dcb8666fd4fb3885193dc67889fe65c72/portfile.cmake:17 (vcpkg_configure_meson)
remote: [build] >   scripts/ports.cmake:192 (include)
remote: [build] > 
remote: [build] > 
remote: [build] > error: building libsystemd:x64-linux failed with: BUILD_FAILED
remote: [build] > See https://learn.microsoft.com/vcpkg/troubleshoot/build-failures?WT.mc_id=vcpkg_inproduct_cli for more information.
remote: [build] > Elapsed time to handle libsystemd:x64-linux: 7.4 s
remote: [build] > Please ensure you're using the latest port files with `git pull` and `vcpkg update`.
remote: [build] > Then check for known issues at:
remote: [build] >   https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+in%3Atitle+libsystemd
remote: [build] > You can submit a new issue at:
remote: [build] >   https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/new?title=[libsystemd]+Build+error+on+x64-linux&body=Copy+issue+body+from+%2Fapp%2Fvcpkg_installed%2Fvcpkg%2Fissue_body.md
remote: [build] > 
remote: [build] Error: process "/bin/sh -c vcpkg install --no-print-usage" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1.

My guess would be missing libtool and autoconf in the system path for vcpkg to build libsystemd correctly. Is there anyway to install those things on remote?

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For now, I guess I will just put apt install libsystemd-dev inside the build script

3

You might want to tweak things in the .codecrafters folder. This doc explains how you can do that.

4

Yes, my current workaround is just install and git clone submodule inside the compile.sh script. But this seems like something that can be cached by Docker, hopefully there is some better way

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