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I'll be asking some very basic questions here, maybe it can help others too. |
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how to install in Linux (ubuntu)?I tried to install with dpkg -i chalet*.deb |
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Right now it should be: |
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Thank you. |
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Is it possible to install in |
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pkg-configIs there some way of linking static libraries using pkg-config? |
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No. It's not planned at the moment. |
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OF projectsI'm finally writing Chalet templates to build OF projects (in a fork) and most things are working great I'm having issues in this is one simple example without any addons or dependencies and the output of |
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Fixed in: #417 |
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Suggestion, chalet clean can skip validationI've tried chalet clean in a misconfigured project and didn't complete clean until I remove troublesome .chaletrc |
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The behavior of "clean" has changed slightly over the years. It currently just cleans the |
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Added |
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Thank you |
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SelectorsI like the fact we can use CMAKE options per platform. but I'm trying to do some complex things now with FreeImage, so I'm not sure if this is ok. I would like to have some settings if platforms are web or windows, and others for everybody else. defines[platform:{!web,!windows}]:
- BUILD_ZLIB=OFF
- ZLIB_ROOT=${externalBuild:zlib}
- ZLIB_LIBRARY=${externalBuild:zlib}
- ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS=${external:zlib}
defines[platform:{web,windows}]:
- BUILD_ZLIB=ON |
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This is covered a bit in the docs actually. See here:
"links[:!linux+:!macos]": [ // good!
"bar"
],
"links[platform:!linux+platform:!macos]": [ // good!
"bar"
]So in your example, you want |
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Enable a target by platformI want to build FreeImage compiling zlib from source on macos target, but let the formula compile zlib in other platforms. targets:
zlib[platform:macos]:
kind: cmakeProject
location: ${external:${name}}
recheck: false
rebuild: false |
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Use the "condition" property: "my-target": {
"condition": "[:windows]"
} |
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Zip folder exclusionsit would be great to have a way of excluding folders from a zip file in build phase, with an exclusion list or negative wildcards. distribution:
yaml-cpp:
kind: archive
format: zip
include:
- ${external:${name}}/LICENSE**
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/include
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib
exclude:
-${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib/cmake
-${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib/pkgconfig |
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This is sort of a can of worms. The behavior right now does the following in this order:
With that in mind, the rule is that these excludes must be relative to the include:
- ${external:${name}}/LICENSE*
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/include
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib
exclude:
- lib/cmake/**
- lib/cmake
- lib/pkgconfig/**
- lib/pkgconfig |
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Dependencies from a .zip URLit would be great to have already compiled libs as a dependency that can be uncompressed from a .zip URL and linked to the project. |
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This is already a thing: https://www.chalet-work.space/docs/the-build-file?id=archive-dependencies |
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awesome! zlib-ng-archive:
kind: archive
url: https://github.com/dimitre/ofLibs/releases/download/v0.12.1/oflib_zlib-ng_macos.zip
url[toolchain:msvc]: https://github.com/dimitre/ofLibs/releases/download/v0.12.1/oflib_zlib-ng_vs.zip |
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Property conditions are actually limited in externalDependencies:
zlib-ng-macos:
kind: archive
condition: "[:macos]"
url: https://github.com/dimitre/ofLibs/releases/download/v0.12.1/oflib_zlib-ng_macos.zip
zlib-ng-msvc:
kind: archive
condition: "[:windows]"
url: https://github.com/dimitre/ofLibs/releases/download/v0.12.1/oflib_zlib-ng_vs.zip |
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Suggestion: indicate which line number or text is duplicateERROR: The 'defines' array must have unique items, but duplicates were found. |
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You can see this in vscode with the Chalet extension. and the Yaml extension (above). Otherwise, the message you see is a limitation of the json schema validator library I'm using. The other issue is, I'm sure you're using yaml - and yaml in Chalet is just a wrapper around json, so that it can be validated the same way. You would get the line number of the internal json blob. |
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CMake with non Ninja backendCan we provide an alternative backend, like Visual Studio 2022? related : https://github.com/dimitre/ofLibs/blob/main/libtiff/chalet.yaml Generated tiff.lib shows _imp prefixes |
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I think you've asked this before. My answer is still no - Ninja and Makefile (to some degree) generators use the same build structure, while Visual Studio 2022 generators use its own in most cases, and you build with MSBuild. If the library can't build correctly with the Ninja generator, IMO it's a bad library. |
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OpenFrameworksFinally we have OF working in all major platforms (macOS tested now), maybe a few minor things to get right. And how can I point the build folder to be next to of root, so maybe it doesn't have to rebuild core for each project. this is now the "base template" for chalet, suggestions are welcome: |
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Problem detecting vs-stableI've tested in two different computers and it fails to complete a and chalet recipe is here cl path exists and output is: Probably because it is in portuguese and you are extracting info from english output. |
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Yeah, that would be the reason... I can workaround this though without exact string matching though. It'll just be a tiny bit slower. Edit: I have a fix ready. I'll get a bugfix release out later this evening. |
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Fixed in: https://github.com/chalet-org/chalet/releases/tag/v0.8.15 |
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Chalet postpend .lib in .a files in msvcwhen passing .a libs to msvc chalet postpend .lib so it turns into .a.lib non existent file. |
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Example? |
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Thanks. I'll have a fix out. |
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Fixed in: https://github.com/chalet-org/chalet/releases/tag/v0.8.15 |
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Custom build folder for a specific target?Is there a way of defining a custom build folder for a specific target? |
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I'm not going to add that no. |
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You've basically been making your own package management system with chalet, and I would rather do this proper so I can stop writing these weird workarounds for you. |
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it was only a question if such functionality exists. |
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It's under build path style (scroll down a bit from here): https://www.chalet-work.space/docs/command-usage?id=build-actions That's all you can customize |
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I'm now exporting a project to visual studio using 
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Right click |
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Basically, you were trying to "run" the "all" target (which is not runnable - it just builds everything) |
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The startup project is something one should be able to define in a sln/vcxproj, but it's not possible for some reason. I'd have to like generate a binary cache file that VS normally generates on startup. It's not worth the trouble. |
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macOS png to icnsFantastic feature I'm using it today. all good but some strange warnings here |
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Linux bundle without templateNot working at the moment. error: documentation " template points to the location of an input .desktop file. If one doesn't exist, it will be created. " |
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Ah, this is a good find. This is definitely weird - the |
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One more addition, I found it very different that the configuration of a windows ico file goes inside settings:Cxx projectYaml["targets"]["empty"]["settings:Cxx"]["windowsApplicationIcon"] |
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It's a Windows convention:
Because of that, it only makes sense during the compilation. Now if you look at mac/linux, there is no concept of attaching an icon directly to an executable like on Windows. On mac - the icon belongs to the bundle, and on Linux - the icon is referenced in a desktop entry. Additionally: |
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This is the editing experience I usually have in mind. You should be guided into what you need: 
In VS Code for instance, you just hit enter, and it will populate: 
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ccache and VS 2022Just as a curiosity, does ccache work with msvc / chalet? |
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It should. You have to put it in PATH yourself though before configuring the project. |
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tested and all in path, ccache is being invoked correctly from Chalet. quoting "/showIncludes causes MSVC to output dependency information to stdout, which changes the compiler output and makes ccache treat every compilation as uncacheable. This flag is typically used for dependency tracking by build systems." |
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Recipes?how do you call chalet.yml / json? I'm calling it recipes sometimes but I want to follow your terminology when referring this. |
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I just refer to it as the build file |
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actool mismatch --minimum-deployment-targetwhen I use chalet bundle to build a macOS app it gives lots of errors. by using --show-commands I've noticed it is being called with |
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For instance, if you have two versions of Xcode ( You could also potentially pull the MacOS framework out of the xcode app, but it's a pain in the ass, and it's not supported at the moment by chalet - off the top of my head, a lot of tooling checks would be broken. |
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Hmmm, I'd have to look into it further. Maybe there's a new CLI option it wants in that version. You could try setting:
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thanks, using sips totally solved mismatch issues. |
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Also, so I can look into this: what version of Xcode are you using right now that has this actool issue? Did it have the same dylb error when the macos version was set to 11.6? Also, what version of MacOS? Tahoe? |
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I'm using 15.7.3 (24G419) and XCode 26.2 |
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today I gave another try in icons for linux, Maybe I am misunderstanding the method. I've added empty:
kind: bundle
buildTargets: empty
linuxDesktopEntry:
icon: ${var:ofPath}/scripts/ofWorks.png
template: platform/linux/app.desktopand the result was: |
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IconsI love how chalet automatically bundle icns from a png file. thanks this is great funcionality. |
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I don't do anything like that on windows due to having to embed the ico in a resource, and there's no built-in tooling to convert it to icon easily beforehand. My workaround was to install image magick separately, and use that to make an ico, either from a single png, or from pngs of various sizes. See here for example: https://github.com/chalet-org/chalet-example-sdl/tree/SDL3/platform/windows |
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Nice. I'll take a try implementing this in ofGen using stb_image. A basic claude.ai sketch of this functionality: |
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Zip bundle with exclusionsit would be great to have a way of excluding folders from compressing when bundling libs, something like this: distribution:
cairo:
kind: archive
format: zip
include:
- ${external:${name}}/COPYING*
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/include
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib
exclude:
- ${externalBuild:${name}}/install/lib/cairo |
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"include" paths in archive targets is relative to the distribution directory, so you should put that include/exclude in a separate |
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MSVC /ZiI'm now trying to make msvc work with ccache by appending /Z7 compileOptions[toolchain:msvc]:
- /MT
- /Z7
- /MP1and it seems to be postpending /Zi in command line, so both are there |
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Chalet ignores -mmacosx-version-min in chalet.yaml, injects conflicting --os-target-version flagActual: Chalet appends its own -mmacosx-version-min after user flags, overriding them |
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Windows .icowindows ico here shows in explorer but not in taskbar, windows status bar. From: Assistant <assistant@example.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2026 17:07:19 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Windows icon resource ID for taskbar/status bar display
Windows taskbar and status bar specifically look for the first icon
resource (ID 1) in an executable. Explorer is more lenient and works
with any icon ID. Change icon resource ID from 2 to 1 so icons appear
correctly in taskbar, status bar, and Alt-Tab switcher.
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src/FileTemplates/PlatformFileTemplates.cpp | 2 +-
src/Win32/Resource.rc | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/FileTemplates/PlatformFileTemplates.cpp b/src/FileTemplates/PlatformFileTemplates.cpp
index 1234567..abcdefg 100644
--- a/src/FileTemplates/PlatformFileTemplates.cpp
+++ b/src/FileTemplates/PlatformFileTemplates.cpp
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ std::string PlatformFileTemplates::windowsIconResource(const std::string& inIcon
{
auto file = Files::getCanonicalPath(inIconFile);
return fmt::format(R"rc(#pragma code_page(65001)
-2 ICON "{iconFile}"
+1 ICON "{iconFile}"
)rc",
fmt::arg("iconFile", file));
}
diff --git a/src/Win32/Resource.rc b/src/Win32/Resource.rc
index 1234567..abcdefg 100644
--- a/src/Win32/Resource.rc
+++ b/src/Win32/Resource.rc
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
// 1 24 "platform/windows/app.manifest"
// #endif
-2 ICON "platform/windows/chalet.ico"
+1 ICON "platform/windows/chalet.ico"
/*****************************************************************************/
// Declare Version Info
--
2.43.0
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I'm not able to reproduce that. The icon can be set to Here's a complete example that I put together just now: 
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Thanks for the testing and explanation. |
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You can sort of pick whatever size you want to include in the icon file, but Windows will pick an icon based on the screen resolution and scaling factor, as well as the icon's purpose. See the chart here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/iconography/app-icon-construction In your case, I don't think you need 24, but there may be some situation where it's used. It's definitely not used in Explorer. It goes from 16 right to 32 in situations where you'd expect to see 24 (ie. a scaling factor of 125% or 150%) |
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I suspect compiler detection is failing in an non En locale system, I'm now investigating with a remote user using |
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confirmed:
g++ is present and working — confirmed by the localized banner: |
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Thanks! It's probably a quick fix. I'll look into it in the next day or so. |
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Not sure if it is universal but there is |
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Fixed in v0.8.19. This is the commit if you're interested: 5f76a2b Historically, I used |
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Brew CaskNow we should use |
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Bundle by target.It would be great to be able to run "chalet bundle " much like buildrun here is the huge chalet.yaml I'm working |
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chalet bundle targetname |
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Fixed in: #417