polovy
Hi,
I am going through some tutorials, and I’m trying to generate an Identicon, but Im getting an error when trying to run the program. The program is compiling with no issues, but it looks like it errors when executing :egd.render(image) - when I comment it out there is no error. I had a look at the code and I cannot find anything wrong. EGD has been installed from the git repo.
Error:
09:55:06.606 [error] Process #PID<0.141.0> raised an exception
** (UndefinedFunctionError) function :zlib.crc32/2 is undefined or private
:zlib.crc32(#Reference<0.1358207439.4254203912.140130>, <<73, 72, 68, 82, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 0, 0, 250, 8, 2, 0, 0, 0>>)
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:102: :egd_png.create_chunk/2
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:72: :egd_png.bitmap2png/4
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:62: :egd_png.binary/3
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd.erl:240: :egd.loop/1
** (EXIT from #PID<0.140.0>) shell process exited with reason: an exception was raised:
** (UndefinedFunctionError) function :zlib.crc32/2 is undefined or private
:zlib.crc32(#Reference<0.1358207439.4254203912.140130>, <<73, 72, 68, 82, 0, 0, 0, 250, 0, 0, 0, 250, 8, 2, 0, 0, 0>>)
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:102: :egd_png.create_chunk/2
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:72: :egd_png.bitmap2png/4
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd_png.erl:62: :egd_png.binary/3
(egd 0.10.0) d:/Dropbox/Projects/Programming/Elixir/maps/deps/egd/src/egd.erl:240: :egd.loop/1
Program:
defmodule Maps do
def main(input) do
input
|> hashstring
|> pick_color
|> build_grid
|> filter_odd
|> build_pixel_map
|> draw_image
|> save_image(input)
end
def save_image(image, input) do
File.write("#{input}.png", image)
end
def draw_image(%Identicon.Image{color: color, pixel_map: pixel_map}) do
image = :egd.create(250, 250)
fill = :egd.color(color)
Enum.each pixel_map, fn({start, stop}) ->
:egd.filledRectangle(image, start, stop, fill)
end
:egd.render(image)
end
def build_pixel_map(%Identicon.Image{grid: grid} = image) do
pix_map = Enum.map grid, fn({_code, index}) ->
horizontal = rem(index, 5) *50
vertical = div(index, 5) *50
top_left = {horizontal, vertical}
bottom_right = {horizontal+50, vertical+50}
{top_left, bottom_right}
end
%Identicon.Image{image | pixel_map: pix_map}
end
def filter_odd(%Identicon.Image{grid: grid} = image) do
grid = Enum.filter grid, fn({code, _index}) ->
rem(code, 2) == 0
end
%Identicon.Image{image | grid: grid}
end
def build_grid(%Identicon.Image{hex: hex}= image) do
grid =
hex
|> Enum.chunk_every(3, 2, :discard)
|> Enum.map(&mirror_row/1)
|> List.flatten
|> Enum.with_index
%Identicon.Image{image | grid: grid}
end
def mirror_row(row) do
# [123, 34, 22]
[first, second | _tail] = row
# [123, 34, 22, 34, 123]
row ++ [second, first]
end
def pick_color(%Identicon.Image{hex: [red, green, blue | _tail]} = image) do
%Identicon.Image{image | color: {red, green, blue}}
end
def hashstring(string) do
hex = :crypto.hash(:md5, string)
|> :binary.bin_to_list
%Identicon.Image{hex: hex}
end
end
'''
Struct:
defmodule Identicon.Image do
defstruct hex: nil, color: nil, grid: nil, pixel_map: nil
end
Thanks.
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juhalehtonen
Hi @polovy !
I believe the issue you’re facing is due to the fact that the
:egdlibrary useszlib:crc32/2, but that was removed in Erlang/OTP 27. Can you confirm this is a version you’re using (viaelixir --version)?Your code seems to be working as intended when an older version of Erlang/OTP is used, as those versions still retain
zlib:crc32/2.If you “just” want to run your code to see that it is working, you can downgrade your version of Erlang/OTP to below 27. Otherwise, you’ll need to look into either patching the
:egdlibrary to use the built-in:erlang.crc32/1, or to look for other ways to perform this part of the job:egdis doing for you.polovy
It is indeed Erlang/OTP 27. As you can see from the code I’m calling sunctions and I dont quite see why those functions would call zlib:crc32/2. I’m not calling it explicitly, byt I’m calling :egd.render which seams to be using the zlib. I’m not sure why this would be.
In any case I may downgrade to test the code, as I’ve not yet the level of expertise to patch or look for other solutions.
Thanks.
thatcherhubbard
I really like the Grider Elixir course on Udemy and there’s a reasonably easy (if not best practices) way around this if you’ve got OTP27 on your machine.
You can change your
depsto refer directly to the local copy of EGD, and then change the one line that callszlib:crc32:In
mix.exs, change{:egd, github: "erlang/egd"}to{:egd, path: "deps/egd"}.In your project directory (probably
identicon), run amix deps.compile.Then find
deps/egd/src/dgd_png.erland changeCrc = zlib:crc32(Z,Bin),toCrc = erlang:crc32(Bin).I’ll see about getting a PR opened against EGD when I can figure out how to get the test suite to run properly.
nifalconi
Hello, adding to the answer of @thatcherhubbard
the change is
As there are previous references to zlib there.
Thanks @thatcherhubbard for making the suggestion. A life savior there.