Re: Hi!

[David Barksdale]

On 6/13/21 4:35 PM, guilherme--- via Mailinglist for GNUnet developers
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm new to the list, so I'll introduce myself first. My name is
> Guilherme Macedo and I live in Munich. I found about GNUnet and
> re:claimID after getting interested in descentralized identity,
> verifiable credentials and SIOP. I think that there is too much
> centralization and lack of control and privacy in the present Internet.
> 
> After watching the presentation about DISSENS at Open Identity Summit, I
> got in contact with Martin Schanzenbach, because the main idea behind
> GNUnet is really amazing. I would like to somehow contribute to the
> project, but it has been a while since I last programmed in C and had to
> deal with missing headers :)
> 
> I was experimenting with https://gnunet.io/ <https://gnunet.io/> and
> https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web
> <https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web>, but unfortunately I'm unable to
> compile it. So I would like to ask a few questions, if possible please.
> 
> 1. https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web
> <https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web> seems a bit abandoned (last
> commit was in Jan 2020). Is there a more up to date version being
> maintained by GNUnet developers?

I'm waiting for the rewrite of transport before I start working on
gnunet-web again.

> 2. Was anyone able to compile it?
> 
> 3. I'm trying to compile it on an Ubuntu Docker image, but my build
> always fail. The best clue that I've is that it can't find some headers
> and files while compiling emscripten-fastcomp v1.39.6. I tried hard to
> find them and install, but I really can't find those missing files.
> Might be a super beginner mistake.
> 
> # grep "not found" tmp/build-utils/emscripten-fastcomp/log/compile.log
> -- Looking for malloc/malloc.h - not found
> -- Looking for ndir.h - not found
> -- Looking for sys/ndir.h - not found
> -- Looking for valgrind/valgrind.h - not found
> -- Looking for mach/mach.h - not found
> -- Looking for histedit.h - not found
> -- Looking for CrashReporterClient.h - not found
> -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
> -- Looking for xar_open in xar - not found
> -- Looking for arc4random - not found
> -- Looking for mallctl - not found
> -- Looking for malloc_zone_statistics - not found
> -- Looking for strerror_s - not found
> -- Looking for dladdr - not found
> 
> Has anyone experienced the same error?

These aren't errors, I have all the same not-founds and even a few more
that you don't have.

> I'm new to emscripten, so now I'm trying to find a way to make the
> gnunet-web build directly reference the binaries from emscripten,
> instead of compiling everything from source.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for all the effort in maintaining such amazing project.
> 
> Best regards and have a nice week!
> 
> Guilherme Macedo