this isn't compilable with crossbuilder

[mymike00]

When I try to compile this with crossbuilder I got some deps error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 builddeps:indicator-sound:armhf : Depends: gnome-common:armhf but it is not installable
                                   Depends: valac:armhf (>= 0.20)
                                   Depends: lcov:armhf but it is not installable
                                   Depends: libgirepository1.0-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed

and also it was complaining about dh-translations, which I resolved unsing crossbuilder inst-foreign

[mardy]

Ciao! I think you'll have to experiment a bit with editing the debian/control file. For sure, you need to add a <!nocheck> marker in the lcov line, since it's needed only for tests. Also, you most likely need to replace valac with valac:native.

I think that you should also use inst-foreign with gnome-common, as it contains architecture-independent files.

But the problem is libgirepository: it depends on gobject-introspection, which contains both python files and binary tools. For the latter, we definitely need to depend on gobject-introspection:native, but then I'm afraid that apt won't consider the dependency satisfied. You can try, but my understanding is that projects using gobject introspection cannot be cross built (see for example here).

[mymike00]

thanks
I did what you say and tried to add gobject-introspection:native as dep but I still get

Depends: valac:amd64 (>= 0.20)
Depends: libgirepository1.0-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed

what's the problem with valac?

[mardy]

You can try to run apt install valac:amd64 in the container and see what error it gives. But as far as I understand, the problem is with gobject-introspection. One possibility to fix this, might be avoid generating the vala bindings at build time, and instead commit the generated files to the repository.

[mymike00]

I had to do also apt -f install inside the container to install all the valac deps but now I have other unmet deps...

Depends: libaccountsservice-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdbustest1-dev:armhf (>= 15.04.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-dev:armhf (>= 2.32.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: liburl-dispatcher1-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpulse-dev:armhf (>= 1:4.0-0ubuntu21) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgee-0.8-dev:armhf but it is not going to be installed

I think I'll give up in cross-compiling this for now...