Thread: What do we think about Proxygen?

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

I think there's a very strong reason why Facebook decided to target Linux specifically, even if it does fail to build on my machine.

Because they did it for their own personal use, and then published the source code under a BSD license for people to do with it whatever they want. Including porting it to other platforms.

But you know what, when you face a thinking wall like Elysia, you can either ram through it like in the good old days, or just ignore it and go around. The first will only get me banned in this politically correct internet. So the second option is better. It comes at some cost, because I do have to swallow the anger that comes from realizing I never learn and once again engaged with perhaps one of the most ignorant and stupid person I have ever met in 25 years of online presence. But I am not ready *yet* to be banned from cboard.

What you think is your prerogative. I don't insult you, and I expect the same out of you.

Ok, so we've heard from people who don't like it, because they don't see a reason for it to exist, and we've also heard from people who disagree with that opinion.

What about the library itself. Has anyone actually tried it? Gotten it to work? Likes? Dislikes?

Are you following the instructions? Did you update folly? Have you tried rebasing the deps?

Although I wouldn't want to touch anything in C++ coming from a company like Facebook, I seriously doubt they would release something this broken. Either your dependencies are wrong, or your environment has some conflicting properties, like the wrong variable value, or something. Also, since they only tested this on Ubuntu 14.04 (and very likely on the server edition), check if by any chance you are using anything else other than a Debian distribution and those scripts are relying on non-standard shell features or a distro variant specific environment. You may be able to incrementally fix any shell or environment compatibility... I wouldn't care about the building tools versions, though. Unless they are lower than the recommended by the project.

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

I was finally able to get it to build once I set g++ to g++-5.4.

Maybe there's something broken about earlier versions of GCC, and building Proxygen exposes it.

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

I'm gonna chalk that up to #JustC++Things

Reminds me that time I forgot where I put my shirt and was already running late. It was driving me nuts, since things don't just disappear. I had left it after all inside the fridge. True story.

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

I need a new way of managing the g++ symlink because this is getting ridiculous!

If you're running ubuntu, this link might help.