[vbox-dev] VirtualBox-5.0.16 fails to compile - linux 64-bit

[John Frankish]

On Saturday 26 March 2016 16:47:00 John Frankish wrote:
> > Compiling VirtualBox-5.0.16 using linux 64-bit initially fails with 
> > (despite using the patch from ticket #7763):
> > 
> > kmk all
> > ...
> > :18: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory
> > 
> > compilation terminated. [glib.h is under /usr/local/include/glib-2.0]
> >
> The patch from this ticket will not work.
> Neither SDK_VBOX_LIBGLIB2_INCS nor SDK_VBOX_LIBGLIB2_LIBS are evaluated. On Linux systems,
> glib2.0-dev is normally installed as a dependency of libIDL-dev (which is detected in configure / check_libidl()).
> 
> You might want to set
> 
>  VBOX_PATH_GLIB = /usr/local
> 
> in your LocalConfig.kmk.
>
Thanks for the suggestion, but this doesn't change anything - as per the configure output, everything prior to this looked OK anyway:

Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
Checking for gcc: found version 5.2.0, OK.
Checking for Open Watcom: 
  ** Open Watcom was not found!
Checking for iasl: found version 20160318, OK.
Checking for xslt: found, OK.
Checking for mkisofs: found mkisofs 3.01a26 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale (C) 1997-2015 Joerg Schilling, OK.
Checking for pthread: found, OK.
Checking for libxml2: found version 2.9.2, OK.
Checking for libIDL: found version 0.8.14, OK.
Checking for ssl: found version OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015, OK.
Checking for libcurl: found version 7.33.0, OK.
Checking for libvpx: found version 1.2.0, OK.
Checking for zlib: found version 1.2.8, OK.
Checking for libpng: found version 1.6.13, OK.
Checking for SDL: found version 1.2.15, OK.
Checking for X libraries: found, OK.
Checking for Xcursor: found, OK.
Checking for Xinerama: found, OK.
Checking for Xrandr: found, OK.
Checking for Xmu: found, OK.
Checking for Mesa / GLU: found (inactive), OK.
Checking for Qt4: found version 4.8.6, OK.
Checking for Qt4 devtools: found version 4.8.6, OK.
Checking for Python support: found version 2.7.10, OK.
Checking for PulseAudio: found version 5.0.0 API version 12, OK.
Checking for static stc++ library: found, OK.
Checking for ALSA: found version 1.1.0, OK.
Checking for libdevmapper: found version 1.02.83 (2013-11-13), OK.
Checking for libcap library: found, OK.
Checking for compiler.h: compiler.h not found, OK.
Checking for makeself: found version 2.2.0, OK.

Successfully generated '/usr/src/VirtualBox-5.0.16/AutoConfig.kmk'

>
> sorry, I have no idea either. You should run
>
>  kmk KBUILD_VERBOSE=2 -j1
>
> and check the command line.
> 
I tried this:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/glib-2.0/* /usr/local/include
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include/* /usr/local/include
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/libIDL-2.0/libIDL /use/local/include

$ kmk KBUILD_VERBOSE=2 -j1

..but the build fails with a bunch of undefined references to various libIDL functions.

Build logs attached.


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