[matrix-signal] new guide

[Thorgrimson]

hello,
i just installed an instance of a matrix-signal-bridge (mautrix-signal); I try to document my work so there could be made a guide out of it. But before i think i need some help because i got stuck...

my problem is that eventhough everything is running fine. the function of having my signal messages in matrix is not there and I dont know why. Maybe if someone have interest to try my guide, maybe we could find the issue.
signal-bridge Anleitung.docx

[thisven]

Hi,
it's great to find another one interested in setting up this bridge. I just tried your guide, but couldn't even compile with make installDist after editing the Makefile to use /var/run/ hierarchy in my home directory:

./gradlew installDist

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Settings file '/home/isabell/signald/settings.gradle'

• What went wrong:
  Could not compile settings file '/home/isabell/signald/settings.gradle'.

startup failed:
General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 60

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 60
at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:196)
[...]

1 error

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 1s
make: *** [Makefile:16: installDist] Error 1

Full error message

[thisven]

As long as signald doesn't use Gradle 7, compilation will fail. This is because Gradle 6 doesn't support Java 16, which is used at Uberspace (7).

[Thorgrimson]

This cant be completely true; because i have a running instance of signald.

[thisven]

Ok, so what's the trick? Refering to your guide, compilation fails with Unsupported class file major version 60 error described above.

[Thorgrimson]

For me there was no trick; i will try to compile it another time and look closer; maybe i find something i do what i dont write in the guide

[Thorgrimson]

Ok i have the same problem if I recompile it. Sorry I missed that i havent updated. so its as you write above 🙈

[thisven]

Maybe we can investigate this issue when the bridge has support for recent Gradle/Java and come up with a guide. 😀

[Fobhep]

Hey there - I recently started to work on getting this to run on uberspace 7.
Thanks to your guide @Thorgrimson I managed to get signald (0.23.1) up and running and also
the mautrix-signal bot. Unfortunately signald (0.23.1) does not want to work with GLIBC 2.17 which is installed on my uberspace host - apus

And thus the linking step is failing - does anybody have any other information on this?
Like - would it be possible to get a newer GLIBC version? Or did anybody try with an older signald version?
I'd be more than happy to share the steps I did so far