Hello all,
I’m trying to build on Mac OS X Sequoia and running into an issue that Google is not making clear to me.
I’m getting a warning when I run
karamcnair@mymac libdivecomputer % autoreconf --install
configure.ac:65: warning: AC_PROG_CC_C99 is obsolete; use AC_PROG_CC
configure.ac:68: warning: ac_ext=c
When I run ./configure I get:
checking whether gcc -std=gnu23 understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc -std=gnu23... (cached) gcc3
./configure: line 15860: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./configure: line 15860: `yes:'
I’m suspicious those two things are related, since I’ve found a similar issue someone else was having with a different project. https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa/issues/495
The proposed fix for their situation apparently worked but I confess that build & makefiles and all the automation around that is really something I don’t know anything about (I always worked with build tools and systems that were maintained by specialists in those areas - I was purely application dev).
I am suspicious that my build setup maybe isn’t using the correct gcc or clang (because on your documentation page https://www.libdivecomputer.org/documentation.html there’s a paragraph that says:
"Building the library on Windows, requires an up-to-date mingw/msys build environment. Building with the msvc compiler is also possible, but requires you to compile in C++ mode, due to the missing C99 support. A working msvc project file for the free Express Edition (version 2008) is included in the source code.”
If there’s someone who has been working on the Mac build of this, would you be able to point me in the right direction for what gcc and/or clang I should be making sure I’m using? (And if you were able to give me a gentle shove in the direction of how to do that (macports?) I would be grateful.
Thank you!
Kara
