[Software Issue] README is missing prereqs

[gdt]

Platform

Other (not supported)

Platform Version

pkgsrc

FreeDV Version

v1.9.9.2

Steps to Reproduce

Unpack the source code and read the README. Try to build.

Expected Behavior

With dependencies as specified in the readme, it builds.

Actual Behavior

The README gives packages for Ubuntu and Fedora, but doesn't describe them in any generic way. That's minor.

Building, cmake objects:

-- Looking for sioclient...
--   Socket.io library: SIOCLIENT_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
--   Socket.io headers: SIOCLIENT_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
-- Using static sioclient build

I can't find any mention of that in the README. I would really like to see a link to an upstream for this, as when I search I can't figure out what's canonical. There are many things, a lot of which are wrapers for some language, but not really clearly named, and it sort of looks like multiple forks with unclear maintenance status.

Additional Comments

No response

[gdt]

Perhaps https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-cpp but there has not been a release in 3 years, so it seems unmaintained.

[barjac]

True but there have been some commits and it works.
I package it for Mageia.
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/libsioclient/

[Tyrbiter]

Fedora is in the process of packaging it, but they don't tend to like git snapshots if they can be avoided:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271219

I have been trying to encourage the Fedora freedv maintainer, it's just that he maintains a lot of other packages too so is a bit heavily loaded.

[tmiw]

Last commit was six months ago: socketio/socket.io-client-cpp@da77914 (and there's a corresponding issue requesting a new release). Not particularly great, unfortunately.

Anyway, I think it'll be a good idea to consider alternatives, but that's pretty low priority at the moment given that this just seems to be affecting packaging right now.