GLFW 3.4 does not work correctly with wayland

[roman3pm]

Describe the bug

Recently, I used glfw-wayland for my little project on OpenGL, and it worked fine. However, after the glfw 3.4 update, my application refuses to run with an error code 65537: "The GLFW library is not initialized". This definitely seems to be an issue with the new version. For comparison, glfw-wayland 3.3.8 from nixos-23.11 works flawlessly without any tinkering required.

Steps To Reproduce

I use this flake configuration

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

  outputs = { nixpkgs, ... }:
    let
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
      makeShell = pkgs.mkShell.override { stdenv = pkgs.clangStdenv; };
    in
    {
      devShells.${system}.default = makeShell {
        name = "env";
        nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
          cmake
          clang-tools
        ];
        buildInputs = with pkgs; [
          glfw-wayland
          glm
          assimp
        ];
      };
    };
}

Notify maintainers

@getchoo

Metadata

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

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.9.1, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuña), 24.11.20240524.bfb7a88`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
 - channels(roz): `"home-manager"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/z71lmgd0ydfnax1b13zbrls5idf1y7ak-source`

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[SomeoneSerge]

We maybe should make this into a broader tracking issue for the glfw fallout.

There's a libwayland-client issue encountered in a4ebe70:

❯ unset DISPLAY
~ 
❯ nix run github:NixOS/nixpkgs/master#tracy
Error 65544: Wayland: Failed to load libwayland-client
terminate called without an active exception
Aborted (core dumped)

There are variants of "the platform does not support setting ..." error:

• glfw: 3.3.10 -> 3.4 #293296 (comment) and glfw-minecraft: merge glfw-wayland-minecraft into glfw #310073

• ❯ nix run github:NixOS/nixpkgs/a4ebe70f13c1f9d422d73bfab8fdbd203d4d64b7#tracy
  Error 65548: Wayland: The platform does not support setting the window position
  Failed to initialize OpenGL loader!
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  

EDIT(2024-05-29): tracy was actually only crashing because it couldn't load libGL:

❯ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
/nix/store/jz3vvf4nsyirb25rh9dbhksm4gq6wybb-libglvnd-1.7.0/lib
❯ tracy
Error 65548: Wayland: The platform does not support setting the window position
Error 65548: Wayland: The platform does not support setting the window icon
❯ echo $?
0

[eclairevoyant]

please provide an MWE

[roman3pm]

I haven't used the unstable branch for a while. I just tried it and it seems that the libwayland-client fix mentioned above has solved the problem. I apologize for not paying attention to this earlier. Thanks!