Build error -- no pulseaudio

[kanyck]

Hi! Trying to build your program but fail due to pulseaudio libs absence. This is true, indeed, I've no pulseaudio on my system. How to bypass this?

  CCLD     onvifmgr
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libsndfile.so.1, needed by /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_command@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_readf_int@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_get_string@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_readf_short@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_writef_short@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_readf_float@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_error_number@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_writef_float@libsndfile.so.1.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/kanyck/OnvifDeviceManager/subprojects/pulseaudio/build/dist/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so: undefined reference to `sf_writef_int@libsndfile.so.1.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[Quedale]

I'm not sure why you would be getting those errors unless your system changed since last time the project was built.
It looks like "libsndfile.so.1" is no longer available.

You could try to delete the subprojects content (you can keep the cache folder to avoid re-downloading everything).
After cleaning up the subprojects folder, simply run the build again. (make distclean + autogen.sh + make)

If you are still experiencing problems, could you share what distro you are using so that I can attempt to reproduce the issue?

Alternatively, you could use the flatpak install method, which wouldn't suffer from such issue.

Looking forward to hear back!

[kanyck]

Yeah, I misunderstood the error message a bit. libsndfile was not installed at my system (it's probalby a pulseaudio dependency). After installing it explicitly the build has finished successfully. Also lame was pulled as a dependency. I think you probably should include libsndfile into subprojects as well.
But it does not run anyway, but it's another story. Will open another issue. Thanks!

[Quedale]

autogen.sh will build libsndfile if it's missing, which leads me to believe that it was probably there when you first ran autogen.sh.
Maybe removing a package got it removed at the same time?

That being said, local build is always subject to break which would require a new build with the updated dependencies.
The only way to correct this would be to publish it properly on a package distribution. (e.g. APT, pacman, dnf, etc...)

Feel free to post your additional error here, we can simply update the title accordingly.

[kanyck]

I don't think I removed it. It wasn't there or maybe didn't compile. Anyway, you're right about need to package the app to keep track of dependencies. Meanwhile please see another bug filed.