Error while building Premake 5 on CentOS 7

[anr2me]

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What are you trying to do? A short, concise description of the outcome you are trying to achieve, ex. "Add build settings to a specific file".

I want to try building premake5 from release source:

cd build/gmake2.unix
make config=release

Due to the pre-built binary requires a different version of shared libm.so.6 and libc.so.6 (the one i have are a different GLIBC versions, and i'm not sure how to get those missing specific version properly):

# /root/premake5
/root/premake5: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /root/premake5)
/root/premake5: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /root/premake5)

# ldd /root/premake5
/root/premake5: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /root/premake5)
/root/premake5: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /root/premake5)
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffc0bbc5000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fde7fd18000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fde7fb14000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fde7f90f000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fde7f541000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fde80220000)

# strings /lib64/libm.so.6 | grep GLIBC_
GLIBC_2.2.5
GLIBC_2.4
GLIBC_2.15
GLIBC_PRIVATE
...

# strings /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 | grep GLIBC_
GLIBC_2.2.5
GLIBC_2.2.6
GLIBC_2.3
GLIBC_2.3.2
GLIBC_2.3.3
GLIBC_2.3.4
GLIBC_2.4
GLIBC_2.5
GLIBC_2.6
GLIBC_2.7
GLIBC_2.8
GLIBC_2.9
GLIBC_2.10
GLIBC_2.11
GLIBC_2.12
GLIBC_2.13
GLIBC_2.14
GLIBC_2.15
GLIBC_2.16
GLIBC_2.17
GLIBC_PRIVATE
...

What problem are you having? A clear and concise description of the problem that is blocking you from your desired outcome, ex. "Premake is crashing with this error message: ..." or "I don't know how to do it."

Getting this error while doing make config=release

ssl_cache.c
ssl_ciphersuites.c
ssl_cli.c
ssl_cookie.c
ssl_msg.c
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c: In function ‘mbedtls_ssl_cf_memcpy_if_eq’:
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c:1169:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
     for( size_t i = 0; i < len; i++ )
     ^
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c:1169:5: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code
make[1]: *** [obj/Release/mbedtls-lib/ssl_msg.o] Error 1
make: *** [mbedtls-lib] Error 2

I've also tried make -f Bootstrap.mak linux but getting a different error:

# make -f Bootstrap.mak linux
rm -rf ./bin
rm -rf ./build
rm -rf ./obj
mkdir -p build/bootstrap
cc -o build/bootstrap/premake_bootstrap -DPREMAKE_NO_BUILTIN_SCRIPTS -DLUA_USE_POSIX -DLUA_USE_DLOPEN -I"contrib/lua/src" -I"contrib/luashim" src/host/*.c contrib/lua/src/lapi.c contrib/lua/src/lbaselib.c contrib/lua/src/lbitlib.c contrib/lua/src/lcode.c contrib/lua/src/lcorolib.c contrib/lua/src/lctype.c contrib/lua/src/ldblib.c contrib/lua/src/ldebug.c contrib/lua/src/ldo.c contrib/lua/src/ldump.c contrib/lua/src/lfunc.c contrib/lua/src/lgc.c contrib/lua/src/linit.c contrib/lua/src/liolib.c contrib/lua/src/llex.c contrib/lua/src/lmathlib.c contrib/lua/src/lmem.c contrib/lua/src/loadlib.c contrib/lua/src/lobject.c contrib/lua/src/lopcodes.c contrib/lua/src/loslib.c contrib/lua/src/lparser.c contrib/lua/src/lstate.c contrib/lua/src/lstring.c contrib/lua/src/lstrlib.c contrib/lua/src/ltable.c contrib/lua/src/ltablib.c contrib/lua/src/ltm.c contrib/lua/src/lundump.c contrib/lua/src/lutf8lib.c contrib/lua/src/lvm.c contrib/lua/src/lzio.c  -lm -ldl -lrt -luuid
src/host/os_uuid.c:12:23: fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
 #include <uuid/uuid.h>
                       ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [linux] Error 1

What have you tried so far? Describe any steps you've already taken to try to get past this issue.

Not sure what to do here, i wished there is an easier way to get premake on CentOS 7 (eg. through yum or something) or at least the pre-built binary doesn't relies on specific version of shared libs (specific major version are okay) or use static libs.

What version of Premake are you using? premake5 --version will show you the version. If you are running a "-dev" version, please make sure you are up to date with the latest master branch. Doesn't have any working premake.

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Btw, I'm using gcc & g++ 4.8.5 which came from yum install gcc g++, and libc from yum install glibc, not sure what else needed to be installed as there are no library/package prerequisites that need to be installed first on premake's build guide/wiki.

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[nickclark2016]

For the uuid header issue, you'll need to install libuuid. I believe for CentOS/RedHat based distros, it is the following install: sudo yum install libuuid libuuid-devel

[anr2me]

Since make config=release failed with an error. Will the make -f Bootstrap.mak linux creates a release version? or build version?

[nickclark2016]

I'm not 100% sure, what you can do is run make -f Bootstrap.mak to create a premake binary, use that premake binary to generate new makefiles with the gmake2 exporter, then run make on the newly generated makefiles to ensure you've built release. A bit of a roundabout way to do it, but it works well (and is how you would do it if you're building from repository sources instead of release sources).

[nickclark2016]

Just following up to see if this resolved your question.

[anr2me]

Sorry i didn't had the chance to try it yet (kinda busy with other things), i will update/close this issue if it works.

[anr2me]

Apparently, doing make -f Bootstrap.mak linux gets the same error to make config=release

ssl_msg.c
select.c
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c: In function ‘mbedtls_ssl_cf_memcpy_if_eq’:
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c:1169:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
     for( size_t i = 0; i < len; i++ )
     ^
../../contrib/mbedtls/library/ssl_msg.c:1169:5: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code
sendf.c
share.c
make[2]: *** [obj/Release/mbedtls-lib/ssl_msg.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Btw, I can get a working premake4 binary by installing rpm from opensuse leap 15.5 https://opensuse.pkgs.org/15.5/opensuse-oss-x86_64/premake4-4.4beta4-bp155.2.10.x86_64.rpm.html

And do premake4 gmake (since gmake2 is not valid on premake4), followed by make But getting an error:

==== Building Premake5 (release) ====
Creating obj/Release
ldump.c
lmem.c
lstate.c
liolib.c
loslib.c
lapi.c
lparser.c
ltable.c
...
os_copyfile.c
lua_auxlib.c
path_normalize.c
Linking Premake5
obj/Release/os_uuid.o: In function `os_uuid':
os_uuid.c:(.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `uuid_generate'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [bin/release/premake5] Error 1
make: *** [Premake5] Error 2

I've also tried to do make clean before make but still getting the same error.