Won't build on a mac - several issues about puzzlebox HOT 11 CLOSED

I am not at all surprised - if you know how to get the gcc extensions working on a Mac that would be a great update.

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Which extension is that?

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Err - all the things that did not work for you... E.g. functions inside functions is a gcc special, and strdupa, and asprintf are extensions set with _GNU_SOURCE on a linux build.

Basically, no, it does not build on Mac.
And yes, if you know how to make such build on mac, that would be nice.
I gather it may be possible using homebrew, and some googling may help.

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Seems like the first issue I had, was that this has another version of indent, which messed up the source code rather than fix it, and then stumbled on those things you mentioned here. I guess I'll use a linux machine for this, then - worked well there.

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Ah, OK, indent did cause some of those, I see. I might remove that from make.

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maybe it will help.
https://www.macports.org/
http://www.newthinktank.com/2013/08/how-to-install-gcc/

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Quick-and-dirty-fix (works)

• brew install gcc
• edit Makefile and change cc to /usr/local/opt/gcc/bin/gcc-8
• Add attached header file apple-strdupa.h
• Include it from puzzlebox.c

Build! :)
apple-strdupa.h.txt

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I may have to try that, thanks.

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The code for strdupa() was snipped from https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/string/string.h.html

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Could you add the apple header to the source, please?

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Do make a pull request with any suggested changes. As long as they don't break linux builds, I'm happy to include them.

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