[vbox-dev] FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE build problems

Thu Oct 16 14:32:45 GMT 2008

Sending the patch again as I hadn't mentioned that I would like to license
it under the MIT License model.

- Nolan.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:01 PM, nolan de souza <nolandsouza at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Matt <datahead4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:52 AM, nolan de souza <nolandsouza at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:06 PM, nolan de souza <nolandsouza at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Knut St. Osmundsen <bird at sun.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> nolan de souza wrote:
>> >>> > I'm hitting build problems in src/VBox/Runtime:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > kBuild: Compiling RuntimeR0 -
>> >>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/common/checksum/crc32.cpp
>> >>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/timer-posix.cpp:
>> >>> > In
>> >>> > function 'int rttimerThread(RTTHREADINT*, void*)':
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/timer-posix.cpp:379:
>> >>> > error: 'struct siginfo_t' has no member named '_sifields'
>> >>>
>> >>> Overlooked that when reviewing the code. It's fixed now and will be
>> out
>> >>> in the external svn repository before long.
>> >>
>> >> Knut,
>> >> Thanks for the sync, I've picked up the latest code today. However, I'm
>> >> hitting another issue now. Pasting the build output quickly before I
>> work on
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> kmk[4]: Leaving directory
>> >> `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/PC/Etherboot-src'
>> >> kBuild: Compiling PcBiosBin -
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/_rombios_.c
>> >> => /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/relea
>> >> se/obj/PcBiosBin/rombios0.s
>> >> /usr/local/bin/bcc -B /usr/local/bin/ -o
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/rombios0.s
>> >> -C-c -D__i86__ -0 -S /usr/home/nolan/vbox
>> >> /trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/_rombios_.c
>> >>
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/_rombios_.c:473.66:
>> >> error: need ';'
>> >>
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/_rombios_.c:473.66:
>> >> error: need variable name
>> >> kBuild: Installing DevicesR3 =>
>> >> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/lib/DevicesR3.a
>> >> kmk_builtin_install -m 0644 --
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/DevicesR3/DevicesR3.a
>> >> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release
>> >> /lib/DevicesR3.a
>> >> kmk[3]: ***
>> >>
>> [/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/rombios0.s]
>> >> Error 1
>> >> kmk[3]: *** Deleting file
>> >>
>> `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/rombios0.s'
>> >> kmk[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices'
>> >> kmk[2]: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> >> kmk[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox'
>> >> kmk[1]: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> >> kmk[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src'
>> >> kmk: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Line 473 of the file
>> >>
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/_rombios_.c
>> >> shows the following:
>> >>
>> >> static char bios_cvs_version_string[] = "VirtualBox " "2.0.51_OSE";
>> >>
>> >> I think the bcc compiler does not know how to concatenate these 2
>> strings
>> >> into one. I have also verified this with a small test prog and tried
>> >> compiling it with bcc, resulting in a failure with the same error msg
>> and
>> >> err code 66.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> - Nolan.
>> >
>> >
>> > Knut,
>> >
>> > I managed to work around this by fixing the string to VirtualBox
>> 2.0.51_OSE"
>> > for now, but am hitting issues in the Devices/PC/BIOS region:
>> >
>> > kBuild: Generating PcBiosBin -
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.lst
>> >         /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/kBuild/bin/freebsd.x86/kmk_sed \
>> >                 -e  '/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
>> > 000[0-9A-F]*            [[:space:]]*[a-zA-Z0-9_]*:/!d' \
>> >                 -e 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
>> > \(000[0-9A-F]*\)            [[:space:]]*\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\):.*$/
>> > DEFSYM(0x\1, "\2"),/' \
>> >                 --output
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios-syms.h
>> > \
>> >
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.lst
>> > kBuild: biossums PcBiosBin -
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.tmp
>> > /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/biossums/biossums
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.tmp
>> >
>> /usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.bin
>> > Size of system BIOS is not 64KB!
>> > kmk[3]: ***
>> >
>> [/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.bin]
>> > Error 255
>> > kmk[3]: *** Deleting file
>> >
>> `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/PcBiosBin/pcbios.bin'
>> > kmk[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices'
>> > kmk[2]: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> > kmk[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src/VBox'
>> > kmk[1]: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> > kmk[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/nolan/vbox/trunk/src'
>> > kmk: *** [pass_libraries_before] Error 2
>> >
>> >
>> > It says... "Size of system BIOS is not 64KB!"
>> >
>> Try using the devel/dev86 port instead of the devel/bcc port to get a
>> bcc binary to work with.  This has worked for me in the past.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
>  Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks! Your email hadn't reached the entire vbox-dev group so including
> them.
>
> On FreeBSD 7.0, it seems that the devel/dev86 port conflicts with devel/bcc
> & devel/bin86. So I had to remove those 2 ports to install the devel/dev86
> port.
>
> Things are looking good now and the above build errors have been
> eliminated.
>
> I have a patch for the main "trunk/configure". Can this be applied to
> trunk. It will ease a few build problems.
>
>
> - Nolan.
>
>
>> > Any thoughts about that?
>> >
>> > - Nolan.
>> >
>> > --
>> > nolan de souza, mobile: +91 9886 44 6962.
>> >
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>> >
>>
>
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>
> --
> nolan de souza, mobile: +91 9886 44 6962.
>

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