os_regex.h fatal error pcre2.h No such file or directory

[pabmuela]

Hi,

I try to install ossec version 3.3.0 on a:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 7.6 (Maipo)
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian

and I get these error

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5- Installing the system

• Running the Makefile
  cc -DMAX_AGENTS=2048 -DOSSECHIDS -DDEFAULTDIR="/var/ossec" -DUSER="ossec" -DREMUSER="ossecr" -DGROUPGLOBAL="ossec" -DMAILUSER="ossecm" -DLinux -DINOTIFY_ENABLED -DZLIB_SYSTEM -DUSE_PCRE2_JIT -DCLIENT -Wall -Wextra -I./ -I./headers/ -I./client-agent -DARGV0="ossec-agentd" -c client-agent/sendmsg.c -o client-agent/sendmsg.o
  In file included from ./headers/shared.h:215:0,
  from client-agent/sendmsg.c:10:
  ./os_regex/os_regex.h:19:19: fatal error: pcre2.h: No such file or directory
  #include <pcre2.h>
  ^
  compilation terminated.
  make: *** [client-agent/sendmsg.o] Error 1

Error 0x5.
Building error. Unable to finish the installation.

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[ddpbsd]

As detailed here you either need to unpack the pcre2 source into external/pcre2-10.32 or use PCRE2_SYSTEM=y and have the appropriate package installed.