Tracking issue for enabling to build more packages directly

[Leonidas-from-XIV]

We want to make sure that as many projects can be built out of the box (modulo metadata fixes) with Dune. As such these are the issues that we're encountering.

• fix: support package pinning via http+tar #11446
• fix: use build and install instructions from opam on pinning #11513
• pkg: support for dependencies compressed with zip #11511
• pkg: fix opam conflicts "expected formula to be a conjunction" #11515
• pkg: handle case where dune violates project deps #11554
• fix(pkg): use available local package version to satisfy =version opam constraints #11517
• fix: package management working with ocaml.5.3.0 #11310
• Fix handling of missing optional directories in findlib #11569
• pkg: minimize number of packages flagged avoid-version #11494
• pkg: Display error message when no dependencies exist in dune-project #11573
• pkg: remove broken symlinks from package sources #11582
• pkg: handle undefined vars in command filters #11512
• Packages depending on ez-conf-lib can't find the ez-conf-lib script #11598
• Add ocaml dependency to zlist opam-repository#27773
• Add ocaml dependency hakuch/zlist#1
• Add ocaml dependency to xmelly.1.0.0 opam-repository#27774
• Add ocaml dependency for roman packages opam-repository#27775
• Add ocaml dependency johnwhitington/roman#1
• Add ocaml dependency to ockt.0.0.1 opam-repository#27776
• Add ocaml dependency to huffman.0.1.2 opam-repository#27777
• Update dependencies to include ocaml acorrenson/huffman#1
• Add ocaml as a dependency of globlon.1.0 opam-repository#27778
• Add ocaml as dependency bleepbloopsify/globlon#1
• Add ocaml dependency to dkml-option-vcpkg opam-repository#27781
• Add an ocaml dependency to the package diskuv/dkml-option-vcpkg#1
• Add ocaml dependency to pure-splitmix opam-repository#27779
• Add ocaml dependency Lysxia/pure-splitmix#1
• Add ocaml dependency to dkml-runtime-common.2.0.3 opam-repository#27780
• Add ocaml dependency to vpt.5.0.0 opam-repository#27782
• Add a dependency on ocaml UnixJunkie/vp-tree#22
• Add ocaml dependency to rust-staticlib-virtual opam-repository#27784
• Add ocaml dependency to rust-staticlib-virtual Lupus/rust-staticlib-gen#7
• Mark guile.1.0 as unavailable on systems shipping with new GCC opam-repository#27772
• Disable gluon on GCC 14 opam-repository#27771
• Add ocaml dependency to make-random opam-repository#27807
• Add ocaml dependency LesBoloss-es/xoshiro#3

[Sudha247]

We've been keeping track of the build status through the dune instance of opam-health-check. As noted above, thanks to the hardwork of @Leonidas-from-XIV, @maiste, @art-w, @mtelvers (and more, apologies if I missed anyone!), a lot of the issues have been addressed. The remaining ones broadly fall into these categories:

Error Type
pkg-config not found in the tree or in PATH
Library "hacl-star-raw" not found
Hint: You may want to verify the following depexts are installed:- libgmp-dev
You may want to verify the following depexts are installed:- python3
Hint: You may want to verify the following depexts are installed:- libev-dev
Error: Logs for package conf-rdkit
Error: No rule found for
Error: Package X doesn't define a site
Error: Program npm not found in the tree or in PATH
Error: Unknown package "ocaml-base-compiler"
Error: Library "ffmpeg-swresample" not found.
Error: Library "gitlab-unix" not found.
makes integer from pointer without a cast
The destdir reported by ocamlfind
You need to add the following field to this stanza:
error: implicit declaration of function
fatal error: config.h: No such file or directory
Error: curl returned an invalid
Error: Logs for package linksem