Has this been abandoned? For me on v5.3 it doesn't work about lgi HOT 6 CLOSED

How are you running the tests? The "right way" is make check. This builds some regression-testing library from gobject-introspection-1.0 called Regress. This library is then used to test some corner cases in the FFI.

Personally, I patch lgi/Makefile to add lua5.3 to GINAME and change -llua to -llua5.3 in LUA_LIB. Same for tests/Makefile, where I additionally change LUA = lua to lua5.3. With these changes, things "just" work on my Debian Testing system.

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It doesn't support Lua 5.4 well, but it works fine with 5.3 and below. I have seen some bug report in AwesomeWM (which uses LGI) which were somehow built with Lua 5.4, but I am really not sure how they did it to the point they were capable of running AwesomeWM on Lua 5.4.

As for your install, I suspect something is messing up your Lua environment. Some frameworks or apps, like Lua Torch, are known to causes this type of problem. Can you reproduce the problem from a Docker container?

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Thanks for your update.
I've installed a brand new Ubuntu Mate 21.10 in VirtualBox, and installed the packages from their repositories.
IE Luarocks, which requires lua 5.1
Trying to build shows a lack of gobject-introspection-1.0

Installing
gobject-introspection//impish,now 1.68.0-1build2 amd64 [installed]
Still doesn't build

root@u2110a:~# luarocks install lgi
Installing https://luarocks.org/lgi-0.9.2-1.src.rock
make -C lgi
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/luarocks_lgi-0.9.2-1-ilkXgq/lgi/lgi'
pkg-config --exists 'gobject-introspection-1.0 >= 0.10.8' --print-errors
Package gobject-introspection-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-introspection-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found
make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: .depcheck] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/luarocks_lgi-0.9.2-1-ilkXgq/lgi/lgi'
make: *** [Makefile:16: all] Error 2

Error: Build error: Failed building.

So clearly Ubuntu has moved on, without lgi keeping up

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Did you do sudo apt build-dev lua-lgi?

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sudo apt build-dep lua-lgi
I hadn't
Thank you luarocks now installs lgi, using 5.1
With a bit of effort, I now have lgi-git building using 5.1
but the tests sort of run
there is a lot of

gireg   :  1:type_boolean                       FAIL
             /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lgi/namespace.lua:158: Typelib file for namespace 'Regress' (any version) not found

Please can you tell me what I do with libregress.so and how I should run the tests
Thanks

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Closing as "reporter vanished".

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