compiling from source fails

[philippe-chartrand]

on Ubuntu 25.10, compiling from github

commit 9b36dd9 - Mon Feb 9 22:39:47 2026 +0100

following instructions found on https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html

Dependent libraries are installed (attaching meson log), but compilation fails complaining for a missing header file.

ninja: Entering directory `output/release'
[3/11] Compiling C++ object mpd.
configuration.txt

ninja: Entering directory `output/release'
[3/11] Compiling C++ object mpd.p/src_CommandLine.cxx.o
FAILED: mpd.p/src_CommandLine.cxx.o 
c++ -Impd.p -I. -I../.. -Isrc -I../../src -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -fdiagnostics-color=always -DNDEBUG -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Wextra -Wpedantic -std=c++23 -O2 -g -ffast-math -ftree-vectorize -Wcast-qual -Wdouble-promotion -Wmissing-declarations -Wshadow -Wunused -Wvla -Wwrite-strings -Wno-stringop-overflow -fno-threadsafe-statics -fmerge-all-constants -Wcomma-subscript -Wextra-semi -Wmismatched-tags -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsign-promo -Wsuggest-override -Wvolatile -Wvirtual-inheritance -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fvisibility=hidden -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=0 -MD -MQ mpd.p/src_CommandLine.cxx.o -MF mpd.p/src_CommandLine.cxx.o.d -o mpd.p/src_CommandLine.cxx.o -c ../../src/CommandLine.cxx
../../src/CommandLine.cxx:27:10: fatal error: event/Features.h: No such file or directory
   27 | #include "event/Features.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

It seems to me that file should be generated at configuration, as hinted in the log, but I'm no expert.
Configuring Features.h using configuration

Looking for the missing header file,

There are 10 Features.h files in the /output/release/src/
in archive, decoder, encoder, input, io, lib, output, pcm, playlist, system
and there is a /output/release/src/event dir, containing libevent.a, config.h and libevent.a.p subdir,
but no Features.h

Can someone explain me what is missing or is incomplete ?
I use mpd to manage a collection of 100 000 files and would like to add a search by conductor, which is not feasible right now with version shipped with ubuntu 24.04.

Thanks in advance,

[philippe-chartrand]

Issue not encountered with version 0.24.8 (stable tarball). Compilation went smoothly.

[MaxKellermann]

Whoops! I wonder why my builds continued working after the incomplete commit.
Fixed by 227ccd8

[philippe-chartrand]

It Works. Thanks.