Compilation fails on Archlinux

[jonas-w]

I ran:

./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-lz4
make -j4

And this error occurs on '0.7.61.6':

template_db/file_tools.cc: In member function ‘uint32 Blocking_Client_Socket::get_command()’:
template_db/file_tools.cc:82:28: error: ‘uint8_t’ was not declared in this scope
   82 |       socket_descriptor, ((uint8_t*)&buffer[0])+bytes_in_buffer, buffer.size()*sizeof(uint32) - bytes_in_buffer, 0);
      |                            ^~~~~~~
template_db/file_tools.cc:38:1: note: ‘uint8_t’ is defined in header ‘<cstdint>’; did you forget to ‘#include <cstdint>’?
   37 | #include <iostream>
  +++ |+#include <cstdint>
   38 | #include <vector>
template_db/file_tools.cc:82:36: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
   82 |       socket_descriptor, ((uint8_t*)&buffer[0])+bytes_in_buffer, buffer.size()*sizeof(uint32) - bytes_in_buffer, 0);
      |                                    ^

Same thing works on Debian. Is there a way to compile it on Archlinux?

[mmd-osm]

Can you try to reach out to your Archlinux community and discuss it with them in a first step? They might be in a better position to point you to Archlinux specific issues.

[drolbr]

Can you try to reach out to your Archlinux community and discuss it with them in a first step? They might be in a better position to point you to Archlinux specific issues.

No, Jonas is correctly reporting here. There is a missing

#include <cstdint>

in apparently more places than it looked like from the Kali problem.

I do not know why neither GCC nor Clang detect this even in pedantic mode on other platforms, but it makes it rater tricky to sport all places.

A workaround would be to add

#include <cstdint>

in all files where the compiler complains, but that could be as well subject of a patch release.

[mmd-osm]

I thought this might be something ArchLinux specific, like in https://github.com/AirenSoft/OvenMediaEngine/issues/1271 ... The issue suggests that the missing "std::" namespace for uint8_t is causing the issue. However, the error message there is slightly different.

Maybe worth noting: They have resolved the issue by including stdint.h since they prefer using uint8_t over std::uint8_t.

[drolbr]

On 22.08.23 00:24, Jonas Wunderlich wrote:

I ran:

|./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-lz4 make -j4 |

And this error occurs on '0.7.61.6': [..]

Thank you for reporting this. It should be fixed in 0.7.61.7

[jonas-w]

Thanks for investigating my issue, but this does not seem to have fixed it, also looking at the diff between the .6 and .7 tar file, there is no code change except the version number.

[mmd-osm]

I tested this on an ArchLinux docker image now. Like the compiler error message above states, the only missing thing was an #include <cstdint> in template_db/file_tools.cc line 38.

template_db/file_tools.cc:38:1: note: ‘uint8_t’ is defined in header ‘<cstdint>’; did you forget to ‘#include <cstdint>’?

[drolbr]

I'm sorry for putting it in the wrong branch. Should be fixed in 0.7.61.8

[jonas-w]

@drolbr sorry for the late response, just tested it, except of the lz4 deprecation warning there are no errors and it compiles. Thank you!