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Hello,
First of all, thanks for all the work on Synchronet! I'm a former SysOp (I used to run a BBS during the 1990s), and with a Linux machine at hand, I'm slowly beginning to set up my BBS "again".
(I have also begun writing a bash script modem frontend which -- with the help of stty and socat -- hopefully should be able to transfer incoming modem connections to the Telnet parts of Synchronet, which I believe is a missing "part of the puzzle" at the moment?)
Now on to my problem:
I'm trying to build Synchronet 3.17b on a Debian 10 ("Buster") machine:
mkdir -p ~/src/sbbs317b
cd ~/src/sbbs317b
wget 'http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/install/GNUmakefile'
make install CVSTAG=sbbs317b NO_GTK=1 NO_X=1
...but I get compile errors regarding missing datatypes:
c++ -o jsanalyze.o -c -fvisibility=hidden -DOSTYPE=\"Linux4.19\" -DOSARCH=Linux -DEXPORT_JS_API -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -I. -I. -I./dist/include -I./dist/include/nsprpub -I/usr/include/nspr -I. -I./assembler -I./yarr -fPIC -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-variadic-macros -Werror=return-type -pedantic -Wno-long-long -std=gnu++98 -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O3 -DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=1 -DENABLE_ASSEMBLER=1 -DENABLE_JIT=1 -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ./js-confdefs.h -MD -MF .deps/jsanalyze.pp jsanalyze.cpp
In file included from jstypes.h:58,
from jsarena.h:50,
from jsanalyze.h:44,
from jsanalyze.cpp:40:
js-config.h:85:27: error: `WORD' does not name a type
/* #undef JS_BYTES_PER_ */WORD
^~~~
In file included from jstypes.h:338,
from jsarena.h:50,
from jsanalyze.h:44,
from jsanalyze.cpp:40:
jsinttypes.h:85:9: error: `uint8_t' does not name a type; did you mean `u_int8_t'?
typedef uint8_t JSUint8;
^~~~~~~
u_int8_t
In file included from jsarena.h:50,
from jsanalyze.h:44,
from jsanalyze.cpp:40:
jstypes.h:408:9: error: `JSUint8' does not name a type; did you mean `JSUintn'?
typedef JSUint8 JSPackedBool;
^~~~~~~
JSUintn
In file included from jstypes.h:416,
from jsarena.h:50,
from jsanalyze.h:44,
from jsanalyze.cpp:40:
jsotypes.h:80:9: error: `JSUint8' does not name a type; did you mean `JSUintn'?
typedef JSUint8 uint8;
^~~~~~~
JSUintn
...and so on. Checking ~/src/sbbs317b/3rdp/src/mozjs/js-1.8.5/js/src/config.status shows that the define "-DJS_HAVE_STDINT_H=1" is set, so it appears that it has found <stdint.h>, however this does not seem to help.
Any ideas?
I tried replacing the bundled mozjs library by installing the libmozjs-60-0 and libmozjs-60-dev packages, and specifying JSINCLUDE=/usr/include/mozjs-60/js JSLIB=libmozjs-60, but that made things worse in other aspects (smblib couldn't find the headers from "encode" and "hash", so it appears that this caused some other include path problems).
I have checked the prerequisites and I think I've got the ones required. Perhaps mozjs 1.8.5 is simply "too old" for the up-to-date software in Debian 10?
I'm using gcc/g++ 8.3.0 (8.3.0-6), pkgconf 1.6.0 (1.6.0-1), make 4.2.1 (4.2.1-1.2), libc6-dev 2.28 (2.28-10).
Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Bj”rn
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