Comment 4 for bug 2066372

Hey @mdeslaur, I am not that advanced that I understand how to do this. I already tried building it from the dedicated repo https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock.

14:38:46 hostname : swaylock ((v1.7.2)) :)
> meson --reconfigure build/ --prefix=/home/user/bin/swaylock-bin
The Meson build system
Version: 1.4.0
Source dir: /home/user/bin/swaylock
Build dir: /home/user/bin/swaylock/build
Build type: native build
Project name: swaylock
Project version: 1.7.2
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 11.4.0 "cc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.38
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Dependency wayland-client found: YES 1.20.0 (cached)
Dependency wayland-protocols found: YES 1.25 (cached)
Dependency wayland-scanner found: YES 1.20.0 (cached)
Dependency xkbcommon found: YES 1.4.0 (cached)
Dependency cairo found: YES 1.16.0 (cached)
Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 0.29.2
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.22.1)
Run-time dependency gdk-pixbuf-2.0 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Library pam found: NO
Library crypt found: YES
Library m found: YES
Library rt found: YES
Program git found: YES (/usr/bin/git)
Program scdoc found: NO
Program /usr/bin/wayland-scanner found: YES (/usr/bin/wayland-scanner)
Configuring config.h using configuration
meson.build:118: WARNING: The swaylock binary must be setuid when compiled without libpam
meson.build:119: WARNING: You must do this manually post-install: chmod a+s /path/to/swaylock
Dependency bash-completion found: YES 2.11 (cached)
Run-time dependency fish found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Build targets in project: 1

swaylock 1.7.2

  User defined options
    prefix: /home/user/bin/swaylock-bin

Found ninja-1.11.1.git.kitware.jobserver-1 at /usr/local/bin/ninja
WARNING: Running the setup command as `meson [options]` instead of `meson setup [options]` is ambiguous and deprecated.
14:38:53 hostname : swaylock ((v1.7.2)) :)
> ninja -C build
ninja: Entering directory `build'
[26/26] Linking target swaylock
14:39:12 hostname : swaylock ((v1.7.2)) :)
> sudo ninja -C build install
ninja: Entering directory `build'
[0/1] Installing files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 146, in run
    return options.run_func(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 811, in run
    installer.do_install(datafilename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 564, in do_install
    d = self.check_installdata(pickle.load(ifile))
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mesonbuild.utils'

ERROR: Unhandled python exception

    This is a Meson bug and should be reported!
FAILED: meson-internal__install
/home/user/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
14:39:20 hostname : swaylock ((v1.7.2)) :(
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Greetings,
Sebastian