I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I'm having difficulty compiling Krita. Linux (Debian Buster distribution) AMD64 processor. I'm following David Revoy's instructions at:
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article193/c ... x-for-cats

* Set up directories fine
* Got the source code from the git server fine
* Installed what seemed to be all the libraries and dependencies, but I fear I missed something
* Configured with cmake just fine
* When I run make, it stops with this error:

...
[ 66%] Linking CXX shared library krita.so
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/python_module_PyKrita_krita.dir/krita/sipkritapart0.cpp.o: in function `PyInit_krita':
/home/jara/krita/build/plugins/extensions/pykrita/sip/./krita/sipkritapart0.cpp:1205: undefined reference to `PyModule_Create2'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [plugins/extensions/pykrita/sip/CMakeFiles/python_module_PyKrita_krita.dir/build.make:154: plugins/extensions/pykrita/sip/krita.so] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:28111: plugins/extensions/pykrita/sip/CMakeFiles/python_module_PyKrita_krita.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:141: all] Error 2
$

I believe I have all relevant python libraries installed, cmake seemed to think so, anyway. But I must be missing something.

Searching the internet, some people say this error crops up when linking in the dbg version of python, but I double checked and I have no dbg versions of python or any python libraries installed on my machine.

Does anyone have any idea of what I might be missing? Or where a better place to ask might be? Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
-- Jara

Sorry, no... The guide you're following is quite old by now. I don't use Debian myself because I need something that's more up to date, so I cannot experiment either.

What might be the case is that you have python2 and the python2 versions of pyqt and sip installed; the python2 support hasn't been maintained for some time, and we don't test it. If that's the case, we'll remove it

Is there a more up-to-date guide than Revoy's that you would recommend?

I have python3 installed, and numerous python3 libraries installed. Specifically, I have the python3 bindings for pyqt5 (python3-pyqt5 and pyqt5-dev packages) and sip (python3-sip and python3-sip-dev packages). Cmake seemed to be finding python3 fine.

Why, is the 2 in PyModule_Create2 a sign that something thinks I'm trying to use python2? If so, I can see if I can safely uninstall python2 from my system without breaking any dependencies I care about and cmake/make again. I have no interest in trying to make it work with python2.

-- Jara

This is the current guide: https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatabl ... krita.html

That worked beautifully, thank you for the help.

Sincerely,
-- Jara