Required system dependencies when building from source

[sol]

The documentation in "building from source recommends" to run:

sudo ./install-system-packages.sh

Looking at that script and trying to understand what it does, I gave up after following three indirections.

Is the list of required system dependencies documented somewhere?

Edit:

watchman/build/fbcode_builder/manifests/watchman

Lines 13 to 23 in a048dc8

	[dependencies]
	boost
	cpptoml
	edencommon
	fb303
	fbthrift
	folly
	pcre2
	googletest
	python-setuptools

[rduplain]

👋

Looks like you found it and this issue can be closed. The getdeps.py program has more info in the folly repo. Everything is vendored locally within the repo so that watchman knows how to fetch/build its dependencies without an external tool.

watchman/install-system-packages.sh

Line 9 in 11e194f

python3 "$(dirname "$0")/build/fbcode_builder/getdeps.py" install-system-deps --recursive watchman

A manifest maps a simple name (pcre2) to its respective names on rpm/deb/brew (e.g. libpcre2-dev deb):

watchman/build/fbcode_builder/manifests/pcre2

Lines 4 to 12 in 11e194f

	[homebrew]
	pcre2
	[rpms]
	pcre2-devel
	pcre-static
	[debs]
	libpcre2-dev

The manifest also has detail for getdeps.py to build from source:

watchman/build/fbcode_builder/manifests/pcre2

Lines 14 to 20 in 11e194f

	[download]
	url = https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-10.40/pcre2-10.40.tar.bz2
	sha256 = 14e4b83c4783933dc17e964318e6324f7cae1bc75d8f3c79bc6969f00c159d68
	[build]
	builder = cmake
	subdir = pcre2-10.40

[Note: I'm a user not a member of the project.]