Manual Build Instructions for Production Builds Do Not Work

[gflohr]

I am trying to build the daemon from sources:

$ go  build -buildmode=pie -tags=drop,moose,telio -ldflags='-s -w -linkmode=external -X main.Version=3.18.5 -X main.Environment=prod -X main.Arch=i386 -X main.Salt=charmgoofyropegritmamatilt -X main.PackageType=ebuild' -o bin/nordvpnd cmd/daemon
package cmd/daemon is not in std (/usr/lib/go/src/cmd/daemon)

When I replace cmd/daemon with ./cmd/daemon, I get the next error:

$ go  build -buildmode=pie -tags=drop,moose,telio -ldflags='-s -w -linkmode=external -X main.Version=3.18.5 -X main.Environment=prod -X main.Arch=i386 -X main.Salt=charmgoofyropegritmamatilt -X main.PackageType=ebuild' -o bin/nordvpnd ./cmd/daemon
events/moose/errors.go:12:2: package moose/events is not in std (/usr/lib/go/src/moose/events)
events/moose/moose.go:33:2: package moose/worker is not in std (/usr/lib/go/src/moose/worker)

From #3 I kind of understood that moose is not strictly necessary. So, I tried to omit it:

$ go  build -buildmode=pie -tags=drop,telio -ldflags='-s -w -linkmode=external -X main.Version=3.18.5 -X main.Environment=prod -X main.Arch=i386 -X main.Salt=charmgoofyropegritmamatilt -X main.PackageType=ebuild' -o bin/nordvpnd ./cmd/daemon
# github.com/jbowtie/gokogiri/xpath
/home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/jbowtie/[email protected]/xpath/expression.go:47:8: could not determine kind of name for C.free
# github.com/NordSecurity/libtelio/ffi/bindings/linux/go
In file included from /home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!nord!security/[email protected]/ffi/bindings/linux/go/callbacks.h:1,
                 from teliogo.go:20,
                 from _cgo_export.c:4:
/home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!nord!security/[email protected]/ffi/bindings/linux/go/../../telio.h:457:34: warning: ‘struct telio_protect_cb’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
  457 |                           struct telio_protect_cb);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# github.com/NordSecurity/libtelio/ffi/bindings/linux/go
In file included from /home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!nord!security/[email protected]/ffi/bindings/linux/go/callbacks.h:1,
                 from /home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!nord!security/[email protected]/ffi/bindings/linux/go/teliogo.go:20:
/home/yourstruly/go/pkg/mod/github.com/!nord!security/[email protected]/ffi/bindings/linux/go/../../telio.h:457:34: warning: ‘struct telio_protect_cb’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
  457 |                           struct telio_protect_cb);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Any idea how to fix that?

The client bin/nordvpn compiled without problems.

[bartoszWojciechO]

Hi, these build instructions weren't updated for a long time and might be outdated. Have you tried building with mage(aka mage build:binaries or mage build:binariesDocker)?

This looks like a compile error in one of the dependencies. I have tried to build on my machine and a fresh VM(Ubuntu 24.04) and didn't run into this issue. Which distribution/go version are you using? Which commit are you trying to build?

[gflohr]

I'm on Gentoo Linux for amd64, with go 1.23.1, GCC 13.3.1, and rust 1.80.1.

I have used the release tarball for 3.18.5 but have the same issue with the current HEAD from main.

With mage I run into a different, but unrelated problem:

...
          /home/me/src/nordvpn-linux/build/foss/libtelio/linkers/d-x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: line 26: exec: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: not found
          

error: could not compile `libc` (build script) due to 1 previous error
Error: running "ci/build_rust.sh " failed with exit code 101

This can be fixed with a symlink: cd /usr/bin && ln -s x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc. The compiler is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, not just x64_64-linux-gnu-gcc on Gentoo. This could be determined with gcc --dumpmachine instead of hard-coding the name.

But then I run into another error:

error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Box<_>`
  --> /home/myself/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/time-0.3.20/src/format_description/parse/mod.rs:83:9
   |
83 |     let items = format_items
   |         ^^^^^
...
86 |     Ok(items.into())
   |              ---- type must be known at this point
   |
help: consider giving `items` an explicit type, where the placeholders `_` are specified
   |
83 |     let items: Box<_> = format_items
   |              ++++++++

At this point, I gave up.

Don't worry to close this as WONTFIX. For myself, I can use the pre-compiled binaries from the .deb without problems. My intention was to build a package for Gentoo.

[bartoszWojciechO]

Closing as we do not support Gentoo at this moment. One alternative you can try is the docker build(mage build:binariesDocker.