Unable to build sui from source, To run sui-test-validator.

[aravinddojima]

Steps to Reproduce Issue

1. Clone the repo [https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui]
2. cargo --config net.git-fetch-with-cli=true fetch
3. ran this command RUST_LOG="off,sui_node=info" cargo run --bin sui-test-validator

Compilation error

Compiling sui-test-validator v0.0.0 (/Users/aravind/sui/crates/sui-test-validator)
error: linking with cc failed: exit status: 1

= note: ld: library not found for -lpq
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

error: could not compile sui-test-validator (bin "sui-test-validator") due to previous error

Unable to paste full error as it is greater than 65536 characters.
Pls find a snippet of trace below -

= note: env -u IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET -u TVOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET LC_ALL="C" PATH="/Users/aravind/.rustup/toolchains/1.75-aarch64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/aarch64-apple-darwin/bin:/Users/aravind/.pyenv/shims:/Users/aravind/.gvm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Users/aravind/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/Users/aravind/.cargo/bin:/Users/aravind/go/bin:/Users/aravind/Library/Python/3.11/bin:/Users/aravind/bitcoin-24.0/bin:/Users/aravind/bitcoin-22.1/bin:/Users/aravind/bitcoin-25.0/bin" VSLANG="1033" ZERO_AR_DATE="1" "cc" "-arch" "arm64" "/var/folders/gq/1ftrw9cn6675lrrtvknxs4280000gn/T/rustc7MAotv/symbols.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.11xukhy9i6xi4l3q.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.12mkwr9qg72n7zpd.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.13h7nvxdyxpqizsp.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.13lbbqdc5tgwlp7w.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.13ork5r6kak4p15k.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.13z1rhi86m5o4bzf.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.15zansvy5usfxywp.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.162oszfm69llyxfi.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.165nfuwyf0zm6v0f.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.19zvmajcuswacys2.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1b20e9dkrxli23xu.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1b8abst2zm9qiwqq.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1bc4bijcxyrs6r2c.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1cmsxz7vyuxberso.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1e0rgnckdvqvs3wd.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1e2nl8zh3up5zp40.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1eetldnkwg7stezu.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1exi7vo8n2hv0sj8.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1g4dqyvkzppsya7a.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1gnb89aiic3nfl44.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1i0n48grz3qv5m7a.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1ietj4hf4o98m7k0.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1k435ib8jazt2yx0.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1lp0b9xliagchybh.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1m15g0ekxrdm857q.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1m2j1a2dc8y2utoy.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1m8nx59u64alm50d.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1n71x6d0kll3uatf.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1ntl71oz6lysdfkd.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1o3475ulo34j0lpz.rcgu.o" "/Users/aravind/sui/target/debug/deps/sui_test_validator-ae6f2d6b90999227.1o7wycs465zjsppk.rcgu.o"

System Information

• OS: Mac Os (Ventura 13.1)
• Compiler: 1.75-aarch64-apple-darwin (result from rustup show)

[hyd628]

Based on the error message, might be related to a missing library:

try:

brew install libpq
brew link --force libpq

[aravinddojima]

@hyd628 no luck, I ran build command after executing the above commans. Still no luck.

[stefan-mysten]

@aravinddojima
What do you get when you run:
ls -l /opt/homebrew/opt | grep "postgres"
and
ls -l /opt/homebrew/opt | grep "libp"

[stefan-mysten]

After installing libpq, you might need to install postgresql@16 and then export some directories to your path.

brew install postgresql@16
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@16/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/bin/:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@16/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@16/include"