Issue when trying to install i3wsr

[ghost]

I get this error when running 'cargo install i3wsr':

error: linking with cc failed: exit code: 1
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= note: "cc" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-m64" "-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr" "-L" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.0.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.1.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.10.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.11.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.12.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.13.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.14.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.15.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.2.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.3.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.4.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.5.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.6.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.7.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.8.rcgu.o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.i3wsr.cf9699zw-cgu.9.rcgu.o" "-o" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/i3wsr-d97f0d410688ada2.2w4h3me5ehghndzl.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-zrelro" "-Wl,-znow" "-Wl,-O1" "-nodefaultlibs" "-L" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps" "-L" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libclap-c526051765af2762.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libvec_map-aa70a9b8a46da868.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libtextwrap-fa17f008fcb6a641.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libunicode_width-788a7bb8f6848a2f.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libstrsim-0f90bfc1e86d296f.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libbitflags-ce22fd3ba40b4cc7.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libatty-7dec57944fd8b8e1.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libansi_term-87d88f946b658a4b.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libexitfailure-50dd0472c4a40bbc.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libi3wsr-625593a5eb90c448.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libtoml-f2b47329b1fc0843.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/liblazy_static-7838e4e1e8aa819d.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libfailure-5245e130a93a5f85.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libbacktrace-1461e14f88f553da.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libminiz_oxide-a8bf6954a40d2e67.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libadler-3d2dfd5868192abb.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libobject-9be1ef9b7785053d.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libaddr2line-e2f1bfbbe48e656e.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libgimli-4fabdeae3b437c69.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/librustc_demangle-f4ab8b54ec54ece8.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libitertools-9a1f466c7d95b679.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libeither-3e3b8d0bde29ae6f.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libxcb-d7a47d4a8d9f5baa.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/liblibc-84daafcb68f5c7d3.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libi3ipc-dadf7c0a61ba834c.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libserde_json-2cdac68885c45f2c.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libryu-ef2af33493f472be.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libitoa-9362a2041495c501.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libserde-57253e2c3da4cef7.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/liblog-310f65f1f10f3ea2.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libcfg_if-6443c9fece9c5a8b.rlib" "/tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1/release/deps/libbyteorder-c97e92207226d6ea.rlib" "-Wl,--start-group" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-6f77337c1826707d.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-e238540f8faf9927.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libminiz_oxide-78f8506dd5004913.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libadler-c0e64497deb085aa.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libobject-217a514dc8d845c6.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaddr2line-65e4f8df4b8bbd73.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgimli-fec1b74170245419.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_demangle-e74f867eb2f15322.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libhashbrown-72a374d36f3d0a31.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-cb9206ed96de54c3.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-33ee81149d314805.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcfg_if-2e8740599b11634b.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-241cf59851357bea.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-edc29aa8c04b480f.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-6a141406945fda5a.rlib" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-2408224b4af46d83.rlib" "-Wl,--end-group" "/home/dapper_core/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-d36087076e1dd756.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lxcb" "-lxcb" "-lxcb" "-lxcb" "-lgcc_s" "-lutil" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lm" "-ldl" "-lc"
= note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

error: aborting due to previous error

error: failed to compile i3wsr v1.3.1, intermediate artifacts can be found at /tmp/cargo-installyqQgJ1

Caused by:
could not compile i3wsr

[roosta]

Hi, that's unfortunate. It's unclear to me why it would fail but if I was to hazard a guess I'd say you're missing some dependency on your system. What distro are you running? What version of rust are you using? Are you using rustup to install the rust compiler, and if so are you using stable or nightly?

[ghost]

I'm using i3 installed on popOS, and I ran "curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh" to install what I assumed to be both cargo and rustup.

[roosta]

I was able to reproduce and fix on a clean ubuntu VM by installing:

sudo apt-get install libxcb1-dev

I'll add a note to readme if this works for you

[ghost]

Seems to have worked like a charm! Thank you!