[Libguestfs] Missing hivex.h error when compiling on macOS 10.14 (Mojave)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:38:19AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> 
> On Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:31:58 CEST Tim Perfitt wrote:
> > I am attempting to compile Hivex (v1.3.18) and am getting a "handle.c:47:10: fatal error: 'hivex.h' file not found" error. I see that hivex.h is not included in the source and I suspect it is created during the configure phase. Full build log below. Any ideas of how this file is created and why it wasn't created?
> 
> lib/hivex.h is generated by the OCaml generator, see
> generator/generator.ml.  However, the files generated by that tool are
> statically shipped in the release tarballs to avoid requiring OCaml to
> build hivex.
> 
> It looks to me you are not building a release tarball -- perhaphs you
> are building some autogenerated source tarball from github?  If so,
> do not use them.

In addition to what Pino said above, you can also generate those files
by running the generator:

  ./generator/generator.ml

It doesn't run automatically in hivex.

Rich.

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