[Slackbuilds-users] libopenshot not building

[Luveh Keraph]

Thanks. I rebuilt protobuf3 (and absel-cpp, for good measure) and after
doing so the libopenshot build process is ongoing without choking as I
described.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 12:04 PM Jeremy Hansen <jebrhansen+SBo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 10:22 AM Luveh Keraph <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For a few weeks now libopenshot has been refusing to build for me:
>>
>> -- The following features have been disabled:
>>
>>  * Coverage, analyze test coverage and generate report
>>  * IWYU (include-what-you-use), Scan all source files with 'iwyu'
>>  * Wayland screen capture, Use the optional xdg-desktop-portal and
>> PipeWire capture module
>>
>> -- The following OPTIONAL packages have not been found:
>>
>>  * Resvg
>>
>> -- Configuring done
>> -- Generating done
>> -- Build files have been written to: /tmp/SBo/libopenshot-1.0.1/build
>> [  1%] Running cpp protocol buffer compiler on trackerdata.proto
>> /usr/bin/protoc: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libabsl_die_if_null.so.2508.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
>> file or directory
>> make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/openshot_autogen.dir/build.make:97:
>> src/trackerdata.pb.h] Error 127
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2929:
>>
>
> 127 errors are usually due to mismatched APIs. This probably means
> something was upgraded that broke existing compatibility without rebuilding
> the packages that rely on it.
>
> protoc is from the protobuf3 package and it refers to
> libabsl_die_if_null.so.2508.0.0 from the absel-cpp package. However,
> the 2508.0.0 in the filename tells me it is trying to reference the
> 20250814.0 version from August of 2025. It's now on 20260817.0 from August
> 2026.
>
> You should just need to rebuild protobuf3 (so it can properly link to the
> newer absel-cpp) to get the protoc command to work. Hopefully that will be
> enough to get the build to complete.
>
> Jeremy
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