I have tried using snapcraft from the command line, however need multipass and it’s not available for my architecture (i386).
Alternatively I have been trying to use the “Build with GitHub” feature on the website, however I keep getting “Failed to Build” and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong? The problem is probably with my snapcraft.yaml file as I’m not really sure what I am doing?
To install the package from source you just run ‘make’ and ‘make install’. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, I had tried autotools which the dosbox example snapcraft.yaml file uses and suspected that might be my problem. I unsuccessfully tried ‘’ as the plugin instead and had meant to change that back to autotools before my last post (sorry about that). I am trying make now.
If you aren’t using autoconf to build your project, then the autotools plugin is definitely the wrong choice. As @ogra suggested, the make plugin is probably the right choice for you.
It looks like you’ll need to make a few changes to your Makefile though. In the install target, you should prepend $(DESTDIR) to the paths you’re installing files to. This is used to stage the install to a different location: a practice widely adopted from the GNU coding standards:
I’d also drop the “sudo” calls in the make install / uninstall targets. That should be left up to the caller, and is generally unnecessary when doing a staged install like Snapcraft does.
@jamesh I’m not quite sure what you mean by prepend $(DESTDIR) to the paths I’m installing files to? (edit: I have tried editing in what I think you mean and am trying that now, I might ask if you can check as well though so I know if I’m fluffing it up)
I have got it to build and release, however when I install it through snap edge now and try to run nsm I get /snap/nsm/8/command-nsm.wrapper: 2: exec: nsm: not found. Does anyone know why that is? Maybe @jamesh’s suggestion will fix that?
Also with removing the sudo calls, if I do that when building from source on my machine I get mv: cannot move ‘nsm’ to ‘/usr/local/bin/nsm’: Permission denied.
If $(DESTDIR) isn’t set, this should be equivalent to what you had before since it expands to an empty string. If I instead called e.g. make DESTDIR=/tmp/stage install, it would install to /tmp/stage/usr/local/bin/nsm.
With the sudo calls removed, you will need to run sudo make install to do a local install. Burying sudo calls within scripts is bad practice, since the user has no idea what actions are being performed with elevated privileges, or whether the password prompt is even real.
Okay I’ve (hopefully) fixed up the Makefile. The latest build is in progress, hopefully the /snap/nsm/8/command-nsm.wrapper: 2: exec: nsm: not found problem is gone (though I’m not sure what will have fixed it). Thanks a lot for your help .
This would likely be down to the missing $(DESTDIR) support: if your Makefile wasn’t installing your program into the directory snapcraft expected it to be staged in, then it wouldn’t be included in the snap.
I’d strongly suggest trying to get snapcraft running locally, since that will let you iterate a lot quicker than relying on build.snapcraft.io. If virtualisation doesn’t work on your development machine, perhaps try building with LXD instead, as described here:
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