Where is "malloc.h"?

[leighosx]

Hi All,

I'm trying to compile Internet Junkbuster under 10.1.3 and everything compiles fine except the following:

[dhcp2:/usr/local/ijb20] leigh% make
cc -I. -DREGEX -DSTDC_HEADERS -DHAVE_STRING -g -c -o loaders.o loaders.c
loaders.c:11: header file 'malloc.h' not found
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode
make: *** [loaders.o] Error 1


I think "malloc" is a standard function so the header file must be somewhere. Where is it and how would I set some path variable so the compiler could find it?

Thanks.

**Leigh

[Dr.Evil]

/usr/include/sys/malloc.h is the file you're looking for. As for telling the build process where to find it, that's a little trickier, since it can change from makefile to makefile. Is there a configure script for the package? If so, did you run it?

[leighosx]

The file is in /usr/include/sys/. There is no configure script and there is nothing in the Makefile about include paths.

Here's the Makefile with some commented-out stuff for Win, OS/2, BeOS, etc. omitted:

REGEX = -DREGEX

DEFAULT_CFLAGS = -I. $(REGEX) -DSTDC_HEADERS -DHAVE_STRING

PROG = junkbuster
O = o
RM = rm -f
MORE_CFLAGS = -g

# use this for BSD/OS 3.0
#CC=shlicc2

CFLAGS = $(DEFAULT_CFLAGS) $(MORE_CFLAGS)

OBJS = jcc.$(O) parsers.$(O) filters.$(O) loaders.$(O) bind.$(O) conn.$(O) \
encode.$(O) ssplit.$(O) socks4.$(O) acl.$(O) gnu_regex.$(O) win32.$(O)

$(PROG): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(PROG) $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS)

clean:
$(RM) a.out core *.o *.obj

clobber: clean
$(RM) junkbuster junkbuster.xMAP junkbstr.exe *.pdb *.lib *.exp

[blb]

Actually, you shouldn't need malloc.h at all, it's obsolete; including stdlib.h should take care of what malloc.h used to handle. Basically, just remove it, or #if it out

#if !defined(__APPLE__)
#include <malloc.h>
#endif

[leighosx]

Quote: Originally posted by blb Actually, you shouldn't need malloc.h at all, it's obsolete; including stdlib.h should take care of what malloc.h used to handle. Basically, just remove it, or #if it out #if !defined(__APPLE__) #include <malloc.h> #endif

That worked! The include for stdlib.h was in the file ahead of malloc.h so I just commented out malloc.h and it's now up an running.

Thanks a lot!

**Leigh

[WillyT]

Leigh

Junkbusters is available on fink in the unstable section. But I know its sometimes more fun to DIY.

Willy

[leighosx]

Hi Willy,

What's the URL for fink?

**Leigh

[sao]

leighosx,

fink download at:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

-----------------------------
Package junkbuster

In 0.3.2a-stable: *** not present
In current-stable: *** not present
In current-unstable: *** Version 2.0.2-1

Description: *** The Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM)

The Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM) blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy from cookies and other threats.

------------------------------

Cheers...

[leighosx]

Hi Willy & sao,

Thanks to you both, I've got junkbuster running!

And thanks for letting me know about fink--what a great resource.

This is the net at its best!

**Leigh

[daeley]

Well, it's been over six years since the last message in this topic, but I was googling for info and ran across this near the top of the results. Just in case any other googlers come here in the future, I though I'd post what I wound up doing to fix the malloc.h issue on Mac OS X Leopard.

I was trying to compile the Word War vi game and got the same "can't find malloc.h" message. Basically, it was expecting it to be in the /usr/include directory, when it was actually in the /usr/include/malloc directory.

So on any lines where it says

#include <malloc.h>

change it to

#include <malloc/malloc.h>

It was in multiple files for wordwarvi, so you might want to grep for "malloch.h" in your directory just to make sure you find all the instances you need to change.

More info here: http://www.celsius1414.com/node/1793

Chaps,

Another two winters fly by and another googler stumbles upon the post.

Here's my alternative malloc.h workaround to get the Cloudera Hadoop User Experience flying...

sudo ln -s /usr/include/malloc/malloc.h /usr/include/malloc.h

It's a bit cleaner than hacking at the .c files