Introduction
Most of the time all you need to do to port an application to StormOS/Nexenta/Solaris is add a few headers and define a few missing types/functions. Other times things are a little more complicated, but usually the changes needed are minimal.
Common problems
| Problem | Solution | |
|---|---|---|
| error: 'vasprintf' was not declared in this scope | Include this file. | |
| error: 'rindex' was not declared in this scope |
#include <strings.h> |
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| error: 'strcasestr' was not declared in this scope | Include this file (may need slight modification). | |
| error: 'bzero' was not declared in this scope |
#include <strings.h> |
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| ld: fatal: auxiliary filter option (-f, --auxiliary) is incompatible with building a dynamic executable | remove -fno-strict-aliasing from CFLAGS | |
| _pam_macro.h not found | change to pam_appl.h | |
| "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" |
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 |
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| warning: implicit declaration of function 'strdup' |
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 1 #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 |
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| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldemangle |
apt-get install nevada-compat ln -s usr/lib/libdemange.so.1 /usr/lib/libdemangle.so | |
| App builds fine but segfaults on start. | If running the app with LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libpthread.so works then you need to move -lpthread to the front. | |
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error: 'struct msghdr' has no member named 'msg_flags'
error: 'struct msghdr' error: 'struct msghdr' has no member named 'msg_controllen' |
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 1 #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 |
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