Compile Error with Zabbix 5.2 source code

[antonievonk]

Compile error on Centos 8.2 with zabbix source code version 5.2

src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘)’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: error: unknown type name ‘s’
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: error: exponent has no digits
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: error: too many decimal points in number
src/sysinc.h:36: error: stray ‘#’ in program
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before '\x63757473'
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘,’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘,’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\/'
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘,’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘,’ token
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\/'
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: warning: character constant too long for its type
src/sysinc.h:36: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘<’ token
src/effluence.c:10:10: fatal error: module.h: No such file or directory
 #include "module.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [<builtin>: src/effluence.o] Error 1

[i-ky]

Hi @antonievonk!

These errors are very surprising. Are you following compilation instructions? Please make sure that all steps complete without errors.

I had to do some wrestling, but I managed to compile module with Zabbix 5.2 on CentOS 8 using Docker. Here is what I did:

docker run --rm --tty --interactive centos:8

yum install git
git clone https://git.zabbix.com/scm/zbx/zabbix.git --depth 1 --branch release/5.2 /path/to/zabbix/source
cd /path/to/zabbix/source
yum install automake gcc make
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
yum install libcurl-devel
yum --enablerepo=PowerTools install libyaml-devel
git clone https://github.com/i-ky/effluence --depth 1 /path/to/effluence/source
cd /path/to/effluence/source
export ZABBIX_SOURCE=/path/to/zabbix/source
make