| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/libpdfium-nojs.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | libpdfium-nojs |
| Description: | Open-source PDF rendering engine. |
| Upstream URL: | https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/ |
| Keywords: | pdf pdfium |
| Licenses: | BSD |
| Conflicts: | libpdfium-bin |
| Provides: | libpdfium |
| Submitter: | selmf |
| Maintainer: | selmf |
| Last Packager: | selmf |
| Votes: | 24 |
| Popularity: | 0.48 |
| First Submitted: | 2017-07-30 18:14 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-07-03 17:18 (UTC) |
I was getting ninja: error: 'ar', needed by 'obj/third_party/abseil-cpp/libabsl.a'
I have tested 2 solutions,
hacky solutions, at line 127:
gn gen out/Release --args="${_flags[*]}"
ln -sf /usr/bin/ar out/Release/ar
better solution suggested by LLM:
after cd "$srcdir/pdfium/build", git checkout, at line 67:
# GN treats a bare "ar" as out/Release/ar
sed -i 's/ar = "ar"/ar = "\/usr\/bin\/ar"/' toolchain/linux/BUILD.gn
The dependency on 'libjpeg' is broken since 2026-07-01. The easy fix is to replace the Package dependency on 'libjpeg' to SO name dependency on 'libjpeg.so'. It is also the preferred Arch way to use direct library dependencies (see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_dependencies). Then it builds again.
I locally applied the following diff in the PKGBUILD to make it build again:
-depends=(freetype2 lcms2 libjpeg openjpeg2 icu harfbuzz)
+depends=(freetype2 lcms2 libjpeg.so openjpeg2 icu harfbuzz)
libjpeg-turbo no longer provides libjpeg. Can you please update the dependency?
Since it now depend on harfbuzz, can you please add it to depends=().
been getting this error while attempting to update (started 04/06/2026). The package version bumped to 7727.r1.b34626f5fd-1 during the build, let me kow if you need anything else, thnx!
==> Starting build()...
Done. Made 534 targets from 129 files in 115ms
ninja: Entering directoryout/Release'
ninja: error: '../../third_party/harfbuzz-ng/src/src/OT/Var/VARC/VARC.cc', needed by 'obj/third_party/harfbuzz-ng/harfbuzz-ng/VARC.o', missing and no known rule to make it
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
error: failed to build 'libpdfium-nojs-7680.r2.bccc616f83-1`
System: CachyOS kernel 6.19.11-1-cachyos
The latest update has fixed the error related to the missing simdutf sources. All is well again. Thanks for updating!
I get the same error as faethon.
Fails missing simdutf under third-party:
==> Starting build()...
ERROR at //testing/BUILD.gn:204:5: Unable to load "~/.cache/paru/clone/libpdfium-nojs/src/pdfium/third_party/simdutf/BUILD.gn".
"//third_party/simdutf",
^----------------------
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
error: failed to build 'libpdfium-nojs-7632.r1.004b476195-1':
Fails at build with the following error:
==> Starting build()...
ERROR at //build/config/clang/clang.gni:63:7: Undefined identifier
build_with_chromium && !is_official_build &&
^------------------
See //BUILD.gn:5:1: whence it was imported.
import("//build/config/clang/clang.gni")
^--------------------------------------
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
This package should be libpdfium-nojs-git as there is not stable commit.
Pinned Comments
faethon commented on 2026-03-12 15:42 (UTC)
Fails missing simdutf under third-party:
selmf commented on 2021-05-24 11:20 (UTC)
Important: This package depends on libicuuc and needs to be rebuild if the icu package is updated on your system!