Problem installing Xake on Mac OS

[minarzp]

I'm trying to install xake by following the instructions here: https://ximera.osu.edu/introduction/gettingStarted/installingLocallyMac/installingLocally

First, for installing go, the "cross-compile-common" option doesn't seem to exist anymore, so I just installed it without the option ("brew install go"). Then trying to install Xake by
"brew install ximeraproject/xake/xake"
I get the following error:

Last 15 lines from /Users/mina/Library/Logs/Homebrew/xake/04.go:
cli.BoolFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:113:15: cannot use cli.BoolFlag literal (type cli.BoolFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.BoolFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:117:15: cannot use cli.BoolFlag literal (type cli.BoolFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.BoolFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:121:14: cannot use cli.IntFlag literal (type cli.IntFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.IntFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:126:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:131:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:136:17: cannot use cli.StringFlag literal (type cli.StringFlag) as type cli.Flag in slice literal:
cli.StringFlag does not implement cli.Flag (Apply method has pointer receiver)
./main.go:165:11: invalid argument c.Args() (type cli.Args) for len
./main.go:165:11: too many errors

I have OS X Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287) and golang version go1.14.2 darwin/amd64.

Could you please advise what is the problem? I've also tried building Xake from source using the instructions in https://github.com/XimeraProject/xake/blob/master/docs/install.md,
and I get the same error.

Thanks a lot.

--Mina

[chemprofra]

I have the same issue.

I ran the install with the debug option:

brew install ximeraproject/xake/xake -d

In additional to the message @minarzp produced, this was added on (I choose "raise" option):
./main.go:165:11: invalid argument c.Args() (type cli.Args) for len
./main.go:165:11: too many errors
/usr/bin/curl --version
/usr/libexec/java_home --xml --failfast
/usr/libexec/java_home --xml --failfast
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/debrew.rb:13:in `raise'
BuildError: Failed executing: go get -tags static .

1. raise
2. ignore
3. backtrace
4. irb
5. shell
   Choose an action: 1
   ==> Kept temporary files
   Temporary files retained at /private/tmp/xake-20200515-28289-w1jnzk

If reporting this issue, please do so at (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core):
https://github.com/ximeraproject/homebrew-xake/issues

/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/2.2.16\ (Macintosh;\ Intel\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.14.6)\ curl/7.54.0 --retry 3 --location https://api.github.com/search/issues\?q=xake\+state\%3Aopen\+repo\%3Aximeraproject\%2Fhomebrew-xake\+in\%3Atitle\&per_page=100 --header Accept:\ application/vnd.github.v3+json --write-out '
'%{http_code} --header Accept:\ application/vnd.github.antiope-preview+json --dump-header /private/tmp/github_api_headers20200515-27660-5y9eqj

Thanks for help.
Rodney

[minarzp]

Update: I managed to install xake from source (https://github.com/XimeraProject/xake/blob/master/docs/install.md), with a couple small modifications:

1. This error:

   "cli.BoolFlag does not implement cli.Flag"
   

There has been a change to cli API since the last Xake update and the code is no longer compatible (see urfave/cli#925). Short of migrating to cli v2, we need to pin to v1 by importing the following in main.go:

    "gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1" 

2. After fixing this I get the error:

    ./data.go:76:23: cannot convert resp.Size (type func() int64) to type int
   

   Fix this by explicitly casting "resp.size" to int64:

     import(
      ...
      "github.com/reiver/go-cast"
       ....
       )
       ...
       respSize, err := cast.Int64(resp.Size) // Line 77
       bar = pb.StartNew(int(respSize)) 
   

I'll see if I can send a commit with these 2 fixes.

[chemprofra]

Thanks for this update. I was able to download and install xake. I hope to work out the bugs in deploying, now.

[moorewf]

Any updates on this? I tried to follow the default instructions and had the same issue as @minarzp originally. Will try the fix mentioned above as well.

Edit: The instructions given in the May 17th post work for me.