"Missing required native library dependency: libsignal-client"

[sersorrel]

Whenever I try to e.g. register an account, I get an error:

$ signal-cli --verbose -u ... register
2021-04-19T22:51:54.772+0100 [main] INFO LibSignal - [libsignal-client]: rust/bridge/jni/src/logging.rs:173: Initializing libsignal-client version:0.4.0
Missing required native library dependency: libsignal-client

I've followed the instructions on the wiki about building the native libraries, since I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4.

AIUI, the lack of a "Support for new group V2 is disabled" message means that it's successfully found libzkgroup (since it checks for that first), which is supported by the fact that it literally prints a log message from libsignal-client before it gives up.

So why on earth is this not working?

[sersorrel]

the answer: I was using a too-new version of libsignal-client – you must use a version from before this commit, the best version is probably the tag java-0.2.3, since that matches the bundled one afaik.

[chenrui333]

Yeah, I have run into the similar issue with the homebrew build, the version scheme change is indeed the root cause.