Fuse not needed, but building fails without it on Monterey

[startergo]

configure: error: FUSE >= 2.6.0 was not found. Either older FUSE is still present, or FUSE is not fully installed (e.g. fuse, libfuse, libfuse2, libfuse-dev, etc packages). Source code: http://fuse.sf.net

[startergo]

Went further by installing Macfuse with macports.
Executing sudo ./configure --exec-prefix=/ && sudo make && sudo make install gives me this error:

ntfs-3g.c:30:10: fatal error: 'fuse.h' file not found
#include <fuse.h>
         ^~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [ntfs_3g-ntfs-3g.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

[unsound]

I'm not sure what you mean by "FUSE not needed" in the title. If you're intending to build ntfs-3g, it's definitely needed. If you only want the tools and not the FUSE driver then the --disable-ntfs-3g option should be used.

You'd have to check with macports where they install the libfuse headers, ntfs-3g just uses the information in the supplied .pc file and if that information is incorrect then it won't find the headers.
I'd recommend installing macFUSE from the official package instead: https://osxfuse.github.io

[startergo]

After installing macFuse all the required libraries were installed and compilation succeeded, but sudo make install is broken due to the read only file system:

sudo make install
Making install in include
Making install in ntfs-3g
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 ../.././install-sh -c -d '/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 acls.h attrib.h attrlist.h bitmap.h bootsect.h cache.h collate.h compat.h compress.h debug.h device.h device_io.h dir.h ea.h efs.h endians.h index.h inode.h ioctl.h layout.h lcnalloc.h logfile.h logging.h mft.h misc.h mst.h ntfstime.h object_id.h param.h plugin.h realpath.h reparse.h runlist.h security.h support.h types.h unistr.h volume.h xattrs.h '/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g'
Making install in fuse-lite
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
Making install in libfuse-lite
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
Making install in libntfs-3g
 .././install-sh -c -d '//lib'
mkdir: //lib: Read-only file system
mkdir: //lib: Read-only file system
make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

How can it be installed manually?

[themightyoarfish]

You can try setting your --prefix (maybe also --exec-prefix) to something other than root so it's writeable, though that doesn't work on my system either.

[startergo]

I just want to copy the required files to the systemwide folder, but I need to know which files are needed. If I just copy ntfs-3g to the /usr/local/bin it complains that some file is missing.

[unsound]

@startergo ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install should really be all that's needed to install the binaries. I just tested this command sequence on a fresh macOS Monterey VM instance and there was no error returned.

[startergo]

@unsound Thanks for this. It would be nice to add it to the Readme. Here is an Apple Script for it, which can be saved as an application:

on run {input, parameters}

    do shell script "diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s3 && /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g -o auto_xattr  /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/Bootcamp" with administrator privileges
    return input
end run

Where /dev/disk0s3 is the Bootcamp BSD device node in Disk Utility.

[startergo]

ran into another issue during compilation. Fixed it with:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -lintl" ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

Based on #5 (comment)