[Podman] Re: Golang to use Podman REST API

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021, at 8:30 PM, Brent Baude wrote: When using the above bindings, I am getting below error: <snip> # pkg-config --cflags -- devmapper Package devmapper was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `devmapper.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'devmapper', required by 'virtual:world', not found pkg-config: exit status 1 # github.com/containers/storage/drivers/btrfs ../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/containers/storage@v1.36.0/drivers/btrfs/btrfs.go:8:10: fatal error: btrfs/ioctl.h: No such file or directory #include <btrfs/ioctl.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. </snip> Versions: Go: go version go1.15.14 linux/amd64 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa) (CSB) Go.mod: module example.com go 1.15 require ( github.com/containers/podman/v2 v2.2.1 // indirect github.com/containers/podman/v3 v3.4.2 ) Code: <snip a2.go> package main import ( "context" "fmt" "os" "github.com/containers/podman/v3/pkg/bindings" "github.com/containers/podman/v3/pkg/bindings/images" ) const ( socketPath = "unix://run/user/11567/podman/podman.sock" imageName = "registry.redhat.io/openshift4/performance-addon-rhel8-operator:v4.9" ) func main() { conn, err := bindings.NewConnection(context.Background(), socketPath) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) os.Exit(1) } fmt.Printf("conn is of type: %T\n", conn) _, err = images.Pull(conn, imageName, nil) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) os.Exit(1) } } </snip> When i execute the above code , i get the error described above.