[vbox-dev] VirtualBox-5.1.20a fails to compile - linux 32-bit

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi John,

On Samstag, 22. April 2017 07:03:41 CEST John Frankish wrote:
> After adjusting src/libs/xpcom18a4/Makefile.kmk to look for libIDL-config-2, compiling vbox fails with:
> 
> kBuild: bin2c iPxeBiosBin - /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.rom => /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.c
> /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/bin2c/bin2c -min 32 -max 56 -mask 0x1ff -export NetBiosBinary /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.rom /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.c
> /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/bin2c/bin2c: size=54171 - Not aligned!
> kmk: *** [/usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.c] Error 1
> 
> Is it possible to perform this step manually with different parameters to fix things?

could you do the following:

  $ rm /usr/src/VirtualBox-5.1.20/out/linux.x86/release/obj/iPxeBiosBin/iPxeBiosBin.rom
  $ kmk KBUILD_VERBOSE=2 -j1

and post the output? The error you get shouldn't be possible because the .rom image is
512-byte-aligned by calling

  src/VBox/Devices/PC/ipxe/src/util/padimg.pl --blksize=512 --byte=0xff path_to_/iPxeBiosBin.rom

Kind regards,

Frank
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