macOS build failed - yaracpp-project

[don1001]

Hi, I'm trying to build retdec on macOS unfortunately I get build failed when its get to building
yaracpp-project is this know issue ?

[  8%] No patch step for 'yaracpp-project'
[  8%] No update step for 'yaracpp-project'
[  8%] Performing configure step for 'yaracpp-project'
-- yaracpp-project configure command succeeded.  See also /Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-stamp/yaracpp-project-configure-*.log
[  9%] Performing build step for 'yaracpp-project'
CMake Error at /Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-stamp/yaracpp-project-build-Release.cmake:16 (message):
  Command failed: 2

   '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make'

  See also

    /Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-stamp/yaracpp-project-build-*.log


make[2]: *** [external/src/yaracpp-project-stamp/yaracpp-project-build] Error 1
make[1]: *** [deps/yaracpp/CMakeFiles/yaracpp-project.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

--
don1001s-MBP:retdec don1001$ cat  /Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-stamp/yaracpp-project-build-*.log
./bootstrap.sh: line 2: autoreconf: command not found
make[5]: *** [deps/yara/src/yara-stamp/yara-configure-linux] Error 127
make[4]: *** [deps/CMakeFiles/yara.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
Scanning dependencies of target yara
[  7%] Creating directories for 'yara'
[ 14%] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'yara'
-- Downloading...
   dst='/Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-build/deps/yara/src/yara-v1.0-retdec.zip'
   timeout='none'
-- Using src='https://github.com/avast-tl/yara/archive/v1.0-retdec.zip'
-- [download 0% complete]
-- [download 1% complete]
...
-- [download 100% complete]
-- Downloading... done
-- extracting...
     src='/Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-build/deps/yara/src/yara-v1.0-retdec.zip'
     dst='/Users/don1001/Desktop/my_dev/retdec/build/external/src/yaracpp-project-build/deps/yara/src/yara'
-- extracting... [tar xfz]
-- extracting... [analysis]
-- extracting... [rename]
-- extracting... [clean up]
-- extracting... done
[ 21%] No patch step for 'yara'
[ 28%] No update step for 'yara'
[ 35%] No configure step for 'yara'
[ 42%] Performing configure-linux step for 'yara'
don1001s-MBP:retdec don1001$

[metthal]

It seems like autoreconf is missing in your system. Please, make sure you have installed every single dependency mentioned here. Let us know if it helps.

[don1001]

I do have autoreconf version 2.69 installed

[metthal]

Make sure you have your PATH properly set up so even newly started shell can find your autoreconf. I would advise you following:

1. Clone yaracpp separately.
2. Replace line 48 in yaracpp/deps/CMakeLists.txt with ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E environment.
3. Build yaracpp. It should fail and print you out all variables from your environment. Check whether PATH contains path to your autoreconf.

[don1001]

seems I need to do some stuff with autoreconf

[ 42%] Performing configure-linux step for 'yara'
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [deps/yara/src/yara-stamp/yara-configure-linux] Error 1
make[1]: *** [deps/CMakeFiles/yara.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
don1001-Mac-mini:build bob$ autoreconf
autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required

[metthal]

Now it seems like autoreconf was found but it didn't find aclocal. Do you have it installed? It should be part of automake package.

[don1001]

you're right I was missing automake for some reason I believed it was already installed with autotools
but brew install automake solve the issue. Thank you for help.

It build successfully but when I try to run it I get gibberish:

bash-4.4$ ./retdec-decompiler.sh --help
Error: Invalid options: 'a:e:hkl:m:o:p:', '-l' ...

I need to read build and installation perhaps I missed something again

[metthal]

This is caused by different version of getopt. You need to have GNU getopt in your PATH before getopt that comes with Mac OS X. Follow these instructions.

[don1001]

thanks! seems to work now

bash-4.4$ brew install gnu-getopt
bash-4.4$ export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"
bash-4.4$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile