Trying to compile on Raspberry Pi Debian Jessie

[hmax42]

What I want to do: Compile Proxmark3 on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Debian Jessie.

Why do I want to do this on this old platform: I have a Pimoroni Hyperpixel Display ( https://github.com/pimoroni/hyperpixel ) for Raspberry Pi which is incompatible with anything beyond Jessie. I'd like to use this RasPi with the display as a small mobile cli-client for various hardwares. I do not want to accept that the display is a piece of trash now.

What did i do:

1. Run 'apt-get upgrade' (/etc/apt/sources.list was updated to contain the archive and security hosts)
2. Clone https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3
3. Create makefile.platform with PM3GENERIC
4. run 'make'

   =================================================================== Version info: RRG/Iceman/HEAD/v4.14831-259-g3169bf2-dirty Platform name: Proxmark3 generic target PLATFORM: PM3GENERIC PLATFORM_FPGA: xc2s30 PLATFORM_SIZE: 512 Platform extras: No extra selected Included options: LF HITAG EM4x50 EM4x70 ZX8211 ISO15693 LEGICRF ISO14443b ISO14443a ICLASS FELICA NFCBARCODE HFSNIFF HFPLOT Standalone mode: LF_SAMYRUN

   [*] MAKE client/all

   Version info: RRG/Iceman/HEAD/v4.14831-259-g3169bf2-dirty Client platform: Linux GUI support: QT5 found, enabled (Qt version 5.3.2 in /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf) native BT support: Bluez found, enabled Jansson library: system library not found, using local library Lua library: system library not found, using local library Python3 library: Python3 v3.4 found, enabled Readline library: enabled Whereami library: system library not found, using local library Lua SWIG: wrapper found Python SWIG: wrapper found compiler version: gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2) 4.9.2

   [-] CC src/mifare/aiddesfire.c src/mifare/aiddesfire.c: In function ‘print_aiddf_description’: src/mifare/aiddesfire.c:282:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 or C11 mode for (uint32_t idx = 0; idx < json_array_size(root); idx++) { ^ src/mifare/aiddesfire.c:282:5: note: use option -std=c99, -std=gnu99, -std=c11 or -std=gnu11 to compile your code Makefile:901: recipe for target 'obj/mifare/aiddesfire.o' failed make[1]: [obj/mifare/aiddesfire.o] Error 1 Makefile:157: recipe for target 'client/all' failed make: [client/all] Error 2

following this advice i get this error

[-] CC src/cmdhficlass.c src/cmdhficlass.c: In function ‘CmdHFiClassDump’: src/cmdhficlass.c:1777:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_elite’ of ‘i class_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_elite = elite, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:58:10: note: ‘use_elite’ declared here bool use_elite; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1778:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_credit_key’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_credit_key = false, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:59:10: note: ‘use_credit_key’ declared here bool use_credit_key; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1779:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_replay’ of ‘ iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_replay = use_replay, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:60:10: note: ‘use_replay’ declared here bool use_replay; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1780:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘send_reply’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.send_reply = true, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:61:10: note: ‘send_reply’ declared here bool send_reply; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1781:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘do_auth’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.do_auth = auth, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:62:10: note: ‘do_auth’ declared here bool do_auth; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1782:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘blockno’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .end_block = app_limit1, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:63:13: note: ‘blockno’ declared here uint8_t blockno; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c: In function ‘iclass_write_block’: src/cmdhficlass.c:1947:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_elite’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_elite = elite, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:58:10: note: ‘use_elite’ declared here bool use_elite; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1948:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_credit_key’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_credit_key = use_credit_key, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:59:10: note: ‘use_credit_key’ declared here bool use_credit_key; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1949:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘use_replay’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.use_replay = replay, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:60:10: note: ‘use_replay’ declared here bool use_replay; ^ src/cmdhficlass.c:1950:9: error: missing initializer for field ‘send_reply’ of ‘iclass_auth_req_t’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers] .req.blockno = blockno, ^ In file included from src/cmdhficlass.h:23:0, from src/cmdhficlass.c:19: ../include/iclass_cmd.h:61:10: note: ‘send_reply’ declared here bool send_reply; ^ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Makefile:901: recipe for target 'obj/cmdhficlass.o' failed make[1]: [obj/cmdhficlass.o] Error 1 Makefile:157: recipe for target 'client/all' failed make: [client/all] Error 2

i removed the -Werror=missing-field-initializers from makefile.defs which led to

[-] CC src/cmdhficlass.c [-] CC src/cmdhflegic.c [-] CC src/cmdhfjooki.c [-] CC src/cmdhflist.c src/cmdhflist.c:58:1: error: missing braces around initializer [-Werror=missing-braces] static uint8_t gs_mfuc_authdata[3][16] = {0}; ^ src/cmdhflist.c:58:1: error: (near initialization for ‘gs_mfuc_authdata[0]’) [-Werror=missing-braces] cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Makefile:901: recipe for target 'obj/cmdhflist.o' failed make[1]: [obj/cmdhflist.o] Error 1 Makefile:157: recipe for target 'client/all' failed make: [client/all] Error 2

i did not find the missing-braces parametre in Makefile.def so that became the moment i stopped fiddling around and asked on discord, where i was advised to make a ticket. i did not make a ticket at first, but went to discord, because i suspect my old platform is at fault here

Further experiments I also tried to compile at an older commit revision 3169bf2763d6bfdfafc6b077ffac1cf839ff0a77 but that changes nothing

Why this old revision: it compiles on my old macbook core2duo with kali linux and this is the firmware i have currently on my proxmark 3 easy 512

Note the only c-programming i do usually is on arduino i am a java-programmer by profession

I hope this is a not doomed cause!

[iceman1001]

First, you say you cloned the repo, but the source seems to a very old project You have 259 compared to my latest source which is 939

Version info: RRG/Iceman/HEAD/v4.14831-259-g3169bf2-dirty
                                       ^^^

Second and the most disturbing is the fact you are using an ancient GCC compiler. compiler version: gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2) 4.9.2

GCC is up on v12 now, I think we support 7.9 and forward. I recommend you upgrade to a modem compiler and try again.

[iceman1001]

On my ubuntu setup:

Version info:      Iceman/master/v4.14831-963-gba1def240-dirty
compiler version:  cc (Ubuntu 11.1.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) 11.1.0

[hmax42]

Thank you for explaining

your note about the gcc version explains a lot, and the version of gcc is the main culprit, i think the gcc i am using is the latest, the apt-get repo for jessie is providing

the revision of the proxmark code does not make any differences, i started with a clean "newest" clone, then changed to "my" older revision which seems to have the number 259 i just not switch back to the newest version, when i created the log out put today for the git issue

[iceman1001]

hm, does make clean; make -j; do a difference for your revision output?

Let me know how a more modern GCC works for you

[hmax42]

will try gcc 8.3.0 as a start it will be interesting, i have never built a compiler with itself.

but i have to take a detour first, because

configure: error: Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.4.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+.

[iceman1001]

usually you can download gcc binaries.
But compiling it also works.

[hmax42]

where would i download binaries for a raspberry 2 armhf platform? i thought that if apt-get cannot supply any newer version of gcc for this old platform than already installed (4.9...), i have to compile them myself. remember i am not on an regular linux pc, but on a raspberry pi.

and the same goes for the 3 libs gmp, mpfr & mpc. the versions of these libs apt-get would install were older than what gcc demanded for each i did

make sudo make install that worked for all 3

at some point i got

libmpc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so i googled and then

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib" sudo ldconfig

then it failed at

In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:27, from ../../../gcc-8.3.0/libgcc/../gcc/tsystem.h:87, from ../../../gcc-8.3.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:27: /usr/include/features.h:374:12: fatal error: sys/cdefs.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

i found this file in gcc-8.3.0/fixincludes/tests/base/sys/cdefs.h and someone on stackoverflow suggested

sudo cp /home/pi/gcc/gcc-8.3.0/fixincludes/tests/base/sys/cdefs.h /usr/include/sys/

then

gnu/stubs.h s missing

and i can't find that so thats all for today

i see it this way: if i cannot build the old versions of gcc on this old platform, then i surely won't be able to build a more current version as well! i did download the tar.gz for gcc 8, 9 & 12.

ps: sorry, i forgot this is not a issue tracker for building gcc

[hmax42]

i gave up - with jessie

i asked in the github for the hyperpixel(my reason for jessie) about the current state and seems like it works in buster now

https://github.com/pimoroni/hyperpixel/issues/58

buster comes with gcc 8, which compiles the current version

Iceman/master/v4.14831-971-geeb83e112

but thank you for the support anyway

[iceman1001]

Things gets EOL:d eventually. Hard to keep backward compatibility in the long run.

At least you tried.