[vbox-dev] Difficulties with building VirtualBox 4.3.18 for Linux

[Michael Thayer]

On 15.11.2014 10:11, Markus Elfring wrote:
> How should I resolve the following error message?
>
> ...
> kmk: *** [/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1
> The failing command:
> @gcc -c -O2 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -include /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/kconfig.h -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused -Wno-trigraphs -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-sign-compare -fdiagnostics-show-option -fno-stack-protector -O2 -mtune=generic -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -include /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/include/VBox/SUPDrvMangling.h -m64 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -fno-reorder-blocks -ffreestanding -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -funit-at-a-time -Wno-sign-compare -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include
/a
> sm-i386/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/asm-x86/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/drm -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/asm/mach-default -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/generated -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/generated/uapi -I/lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/dtrace -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/include -I/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release -DVBOX -DVBOX_OSE -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DVBOX_WITH_DEBUGGER -DRT_OS_LINUX -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -D__AMD64__ -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -DRTPATH_APP_PRIVATE=\"/usr/local/share/virtualbox\" -DRTPATH_APP_PRIVATE_ARCH=\"/usr/local/lib/virtualbox\" -DRTPATH
_S
> HARED_LIBS=\"/usr/local/lib/virtualbox\" -DRTPATH_APP_DOCS=\"/usr/local/share/doc/virtualbox\" -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0 -DHC_ARCH_BITS=64 -DGC_ARCH_BITS=64 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DIN_RT_R0 -DRT_WITH_VBOX -DRT_WITHOUT_NOCRT_WRAPPERS -DRT_NO_EXPORT_SYMBOL -DMODULE -DKBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DIN_SUP_R0 -Wp,-MD,/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o.dep -Wp,-MT,/home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o -Wp,-MP -o /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/RuntimeR0Drv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.c
> In file included from /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/cred.h:17:0,
>                   from /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/sched.h:56,
>                   from /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:92,
>                   from /home/elfring/Projekte/VirtualBox/4.3.18/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.c:31:
> /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/key.h: At top level:
> /lib/modules/3.8.13/build/include/linux/key.h:210:22: error: field 'keys' has incomplete type
>     struct assoc_array keys;

The only result<1> I got when searching for that error message was an 
error ticket building NVIDIA modules, and the answer was that the 
maintainer could not support custom kernels.  If you are using a custom 
kernel we would probably have to give you the same answer, but if that 
is your case do check that you have CONFIG_ASSOCIATIVE_ARRAY enabled in 
your kernel configuration.  (Found by quickly looking at the headers 
listed in your error message.)

Regards,

Michael

<1> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730863
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