Build error in WinDRBD 1.2.1

DRBD
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I compiled WinDRBD 1.2.1 from source, I doubt /windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared/drbd_buildtag.h has trouble.

The steps are as follows.

1.pull docker image from registry.

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ make pull-docker
docker pull quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv
... skip ...
Digest: sha256:edecd1283bb39e826ecfcee0e074fb45a191ca5b84356d020aac60e4812c3959
Status: Downloaded newer image for quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv:latest
quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv:latest
docker tag quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv windrbd-devenv

2.make package-in-docker gets error.

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ make package-in-docker
DOCKER  windrbd-devenv
make: Entering directory '/windrbd'
... skip ...
MAKE    generate-cat-file (see generate-cat-file-make.log for build logs)
GENCAT  windrbd.cat-unsigned
SIGN    windrbd.cat
Succeeded
AUTOGEN drbd-utils (see drbd-utils-autogen.log for logs)
CONF    drbd-utils (see drbd-utils-configure.log for logs)
MAKE    drbd-utils (see drbd-utils-make.log for logs)
make[1]: Entering directory '/windrbd/drbd-utils'
make[2]: Entering directory '/windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared'
flex -s -odrbdmeta_scanner.c drbdmeta_scanner.fl
./drbd_buildtag.sh drbd_buildtag.h
fatal: not a git repository: /home/user/windrbd/.git/modules/drbd-utils
/windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared/drbd_buildtag.h not found.
git did not work, but this looks like a git checkout?
./drbd_buildtag.sh: line 18: Install git and try again.: command not found
Your DRBD source tree is broken. Unpack again.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:69: drbd_buildtag.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:85: tools] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/windrbd/drbd-utils'
make: *** [Makefile:345: drbd-utils] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/windrbd'
Makefile:143: recipe for target 'package-in-docker' failed
make: *** [package-in-docker] Error 2

3.check drbd_build.sh

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd/drbd-utils$ cd ./drbd-utils/user/shared/
user@ubuntu:~/windrbd/drbd-utils$ vi drbd_buildtag.sh

I think drbd_buildtag.sh gets .git file from path. check .git files:

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd/drbd-utils$ find /home/user/windrbd -name *.git -type f
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.1/drbd/drbd-headers/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.1/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.0/drbd/drbd-headers/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.0/.git
/home/user/windrbd/generate-cat-file/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-utils/drbd-headers/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-utils/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.3/drbd/drbd-headers/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.3/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.2/drbd/drbd-headers/.git
/home/user/windrbd/drbd-9.2/.git

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared$ file ../../.git
../../.git: ASCII text

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared$ cat ../../.git
gitdir: /home/user/windrbd/.git/modules/drbd-utils
-> no line have GITHEAD and GITDIFF

4.build drbd-utils on windows, and get drbd_build.sh.
on linux side, glone drbd-utils from git,and compress them.

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-utils.git drbd-utils-windrbd
$ tar cvzf ./drbd-utils-windrbd.tar.gz ./drbd-utils-windrbd/

on windows side(cygwin environment), uncompress archive and make, get drbd_buildtag.h.

$ tar xvzf drbd-utils-windrbd.tar.gz
$ cd ./drbd-utils-windrbd
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --without-84support --without-drbdmon --with-windrbd --without-manual --prefix=/cygdrive/c/windrbd/usr --localstatedir=/cygdrive/c/windrbd/var --sysconfdir=/cygdrive/c/windrbd/etc
    
$ make
   ... skip ...
   Userland tools build was successful.
   ... skip ...

$ cat ./user/shared/drbd_buildtag.h
/* automatically generated. DO NOT EDIT. */
#define GITHASH "75a475425bb5989a25b2770d7f0491cea7f69b54"
#define GITDIFF ""

5.copy drbd_buildtag.h from windows side, paste it on linux side, try make

user@ubuntu:~$ copy ./drbd_buildtag.h ./windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared

user@ubuntu:~$ cat ./windrbd/drbd-utils/user/shared/drbd_buildtag.h
/* automatically generated. DO NOT EDIT. */
#define GITHASH "75a475425bb5989a25b2770d7f0491cea7f69b54"
#define GITDIFF ""

user@ubuntu:~$ cd ./windrbd/

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ make package-in-docker
DOCKER  windrbd-devenv
make: Entering directory '/windrbd'
... skip ....
tail -n 2 inno-setup.log
Successful compile (24.827 sec). Resulting Setup program filename is:
Z:\windrbd\inno-setup\install-windrbd-1.2.1-drbd-9.2-x86_64.exe
make: Leaving directory '/windrbd'
DOCKER  (fixup ownership)

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ ls ./inno-setup/*.exe
./inno-setup/install-windrbd-1.2.1-drbd-9.2-x86_64.exe
-> success!!
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Hi, how did you check out the WinDRBD repository originally? Also could you please post the .gitmodules file? You will find it in the project’s root directory.

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Also, which git version did you use for cloning the WinDRBD repository?

4

Hi, clone from github.

.gitmodules has no url line.

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ cat ./.gitmodules
[submodule "generate-cat-file"]
        path = generate-cat-file
        url = ../generate-cat-file
[submodule "drbd-utils"]
        path = drbd-utils
        url = ../drbd-utils.git
        fetchRecurseSubmodules = true
[submodule "drbd-9.1"]
        path = drbd-9.1
        url = ../drbd.git
        fetchRecurseSubmodules = true
[submodule "drbd-9.2"]
        path = drbd-9.2
        url = ../drbd.git
        branch = drbd-9.2
        fetchRecurseSubmodules = true
[submodule "drbd-9.0"]
        path = drbd-9.0
        url = ../drbd.git
        branch = drbd-9.0
        fetchRecurseSubmodules = true
[submodule "drbd-9.3"]
        path = drbd-9.3
        url = ../drbd

very old… I’ll try latest git from update.

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ LANG=C apt list --installed | grep -i ^git
git/now 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10]
git-man/now 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.9 all [installed,upgradable to: 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10]

user@ubuntu:~/windrbd$ LANG=C git --version
git version 2.7.4
5

In Ubuntu 24.04 Environment, the build going well.
Thanks Johannes :))

6

Previous environment is Ubuntu 16.04, so old…

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In Ubuntu Server 24.04LTS Environment , to make full build up environment, I’ve done as follows.

1.apply proxy setting for apt, if you need

$ sudo cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90curtin-aptproxy
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy/";
Acquire::https::Proxy "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy/";

2.install additional packages

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install coccinelle
$ sudo apt-get install flex autotools-dev automake

3.remove old docker packages

$ for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done
$ sudo apt autoremove

4.install packages for Docker installation

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ca-certificates curl

5.install Docker Official GPG Key

$ sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
$ sudo curl -x http://xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy/ -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
  (if your environment is not under proxy, no -x)
$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

6.add Docker Official repository

$ echo \
    "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
    $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

update repository index

$ sudo apt-get update

7.install Docker CE

$ sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

check docker version

$ sudo docker -v

check service

$ sudo systemctl status docker

set permission for docker socket

$ sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

8.if your environment is under proxy, set proxy information for docker

make proxy configure file

$ sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d
$ cd /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d
$ sudo touch http-proxy.conf

write your proxy information

$ sudo cat http-proxy.conf
[Service]
Environment="HTTP_PROXY=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy/"
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyy/"
Environment="NO_PROXY="localhost,127.0.0.1,::1"

restart docker

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl restart docker
$ cd ~

9.build WinDRBD

if your environmet is under proxy, set proxy information for git

$ git config --global http.proxy http://xx.xx.x.x:yyyy/
$ git config -l

build source

$ cd ~
$ git clone --branch windrbd-1.2 --recursive https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd.git
$ cd ./windrbd
$ make pull-docker
$ make package-in-docker
  ... skip ...
  Successful compile (24.250 sec). Resulting Setup program filename is:
  Z:\windrbd\inno-setup\install-windrbd-1.2.1-drbd-9.2-x86_64.exe
  make: Leaving directory '/windrbd'
  DOCKER  (fixup ownership)

check installable file

$ ls ./inno-setup/install*
  ./inno-setup/install-windrbd-1.2.1-drbd-9.2-x86_64.exe
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Hi thanks for sharing your findings, I am not sure if all of the above steps are necessary but I didn’t try it on a Ubuntu 24 yet. And yes Ubuntu 16 is probably too old, I am using Ubuntu 18 and come to the limits there (I am using Fedora 42 for newer builds, there it even works without a docker image).

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Hi.

The GIT documentation doesn’t have any instructions how to create a build environment. So I was looking into that.
ttps://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/stable/README.md

Ubuntu 16.04LTS was too old, it’s my mistake.
I’m impressed with the idea of generating Windows binaries in a Docker image.However, I was struggled because this wasn’t mentioned in the build instructions :frowning:

I hope it helps someone doing the same thing.