Testing AI Object Masks in darktable nightly builds

[Markus_b (Markus)]

I’m attempting to build darktable on my Ubuntu 24.04 system. When I try to compile it I get following error. It looks like the file archive.h file is missing.

[ 54%] Building C object bin/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/lua/view.c.o
/home/markus/Workbench/darktable/src/common/ai_models.c:26:10: fatal error: archive.h: No such file or directory
26 | #include <archive.h>
  |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [bin/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/build.make:2308: bin/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/common/ai_models.c.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2447: bin/CMakeFiles/lib_darktable.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

Any hints of how to make this work?

[anry (Andrii Ryzhkov)]

@Markus_b

Any hints of how to make this work?

sudo apt install libarchive-dev

[victoryforce (Victor Forsiuk)]

@davidvj

I am using Manjaro/Arch and currently there does not appear to be a version available in the Arch repositories.

I don’t think Arch publishes development snapshot builds, so a new package will only appear in their package repository with a new darktable release.

To test what’s added to darktable between releases, use our nightly AppImage builds.

[anry (Andrii Ryzhkov)]

@MStraeten

if i analyze an image after having applied a crop to select objects for masking, then after removing the crop i’m not able to select portions of the image which were cropped away before.

Fix is already in master. Thank you catching this up!

[Markus_b (Markus)]

@anry

sudo apt install libarchive-dev

Thanks, that has fixed it.

Looks like the build.sh script does not verify this dependency yet.