unable to build/run lnd app: error "unknown field ChanID in struct literal"

[99Percent]

I was using an outdate version of LND (0.15.3) and need to update to 0.18.3

However when I try to compile my testing lnd app I get the following error:

# github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/invoices
../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/lightningnetwork/[email protected]/invoices/sql_store.go:1140:4: unknown field ChanID in struct literal of type sqlc.UpdateAMPSubInvoiceHTLCPreimageParams

This is at top of my go.mod file:

go 1.23.3

require (
	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd v0.18.3-beta
	google.golang.org/grpc v1.59.0
	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.35.2
	gopkg.in/macaroon.v2 v2.1.0
)

Also I couldn't find a clear updated installation guide for LND development.

Working on regular Debian 12 amd64

[ViktorTigerstrom]

Hi @99Percent! Check if there's an indirect dependency of github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/sqldb in the go.mod file, and if updating that helps with the issue. github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/sqldb v1.0.5 is the latest tagged version, and I think either that or v1.0.4 should hopefully work.

[99Percent]

yes, I had

	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/sqldb v1.0.3 // indirect

changed it to:

	github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/sqldb v1.0.5 // indirect

And resolved the issue. Another error came up which was:

# github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/lnrpc
../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/lightningnetwork/[email protected]/lnrpc/rpc_utils.go:32:3: unknown field UseHexForBytes in struct literal of type protojson.MarshalOptions
../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/lightningnetwork/[email protected]/lnrpc/rpc_utils.go:40:3: unknown field UseHexForBytes in struct literal of type protojson.UnmarshalOptions

but I fixed it by adding:

replace google.golang.org/protobuf => github.com/lightninglabs/protobuf-go-hex-display v1.30.0-hex-display

at the end of the go.mod file.

[ViktorTigerstrom]

Awesome!

Just FYI, the latest tag for github.com/lightninglabs/protobuf-go-hex-display is v1.34.2-hex-display. But if v1.30.0-hex-display works for your app feel free to use that as well :)