Request: additional setup documentation for AWS Amazon Linux 2

[HarmlessDave]

Request: additional setup documentation for AWS Amazon Linux 2.

So far I've figured out that It's necessary to run these, at least if you have not brought in "everything" using sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

sudo yum install openssl-devel sudo yum install libcurl-devel sudo yum install gcc sudo yum install gcc-c++ sudo yum install cmake3

cmake3 .. -Dssl-path=/usr/ -Dcurl-path=/usr/

-- makecerts.sh:
/var/www/phpfiles/osslsigncode-2.3/build/Testing/certs/cert.der: No such file or directory
CMake Error at cmake/CMakeTest.cmake:37 (string):
  string sub-command SUBSTRING requires four arguments.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:49 (include)

[sebthom]

@HarmlessDave the build instructions in the readme are not complete. I am having difficulties building the code on Debian. Anyways, the reason for the error message string sub-command SUBSTRING requires four arguments. is that the faketime command is missing. No idea how to install it on Amazon Linux, but maybe this helps: https://command-not-found.com/faketime

[mtrojnar]

@olszomal Maybe we should check for prerequisites, such as faketime, and produce more informative errors. What do you think?

[olszomal]

Thanks for your feedback, I'm working on it.

[HarmlessDave]

Thanks for the responses. For me, adding a more complete list of prerequisites into the readme file would be "good enough" but I agree that adding additional checks and more details to the error messages would be even better.