Build failure: distrho

[bendi-github]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix build https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/master.zip#distrho

Build log

https://gist.github.com/bendi-github/c2e07355f4078f8188a7d900a204f914

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Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.11.2-xanmod1, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241009.5633bcf`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/60sn02zhawl3kwn0r515zff3h6hg6ydz-source`

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[minijackson]

It seems the same issue is present in the helm package, (invalid pointer conversion in JUCE)

[TheRedstoneDEV-DE]

I am facing the exact same issue over here, it seems to be an upstream issue (in JUCE), because it wasn't updated in a longer time and multiple other plugins also have similar issues. I'm going to try to find a solution to the error and may open a PR / Issue at upstream when I'm done.

[TheRedstoneDEV-DE]

Update: I did manage to successfully build Distrho-Ports manually by setting up a nix-shell environment with all of the dependencies. It wasn't a really problematic issue, just a type mismatch with the new version of the freetype font (library) in the rather old JUCE 5 library, that is used for Distrho-Ports and some other audio plugins. I opened an issue and a draft PR at the according repository.
I hope it gets resolved soon, so we can move on to updating the nixpkg for it.
(I personally moved to stable for now, so I can still use the plugin)

[SigmaSquadron]

So, I've been targeting distrho for this release's ZHF, and just adding the -fpermissive flag is enough to fix the build for now. Still, considering the last release of -ports was in 2021, I'm inclined to just drop the package as unmaintained upstream.