Compiling error with chm_lib.c

[chqzeng]

Hello thank you for this great project! I am very new to compiling projects with make. I try to build this project on my macbook with Apple A2 chip, macos: 14.2.1 (23C71).
I tried to installed the prerequest

• wxWidgets from source make and install
• chmlib : brew install chmlib

but when I try to compile this xchm project , it failed with following error:.

1. ./configure , with error

checking for chm_lib.h... no
configure: error: Can't find the CHMLIB header.

2. ./configure --enable-builtin-chmlib && make, with following error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I../art -I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/osx_cocoa-unicode-3.2 -I/usr/local/include/wx-3.2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXMAC__ -D__WXOSX__ -D__WXOSX_COCOA__  -g -O2  -MT chm_lib.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/chm_lib.Tpo -c -o chm_lib.o chm_lib.c
chm_lib.c:179:2: error: "Please define the sized types for your platform in chm_lib.c"
#error "Please define the sized types for your platform in chm_lib.c"
 ^
chm_lib.c:185:9: warning: 'memcpy' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
#define memcpy __builtin_memcpy
        ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/secure/_string.h:62:9: note: previous definition is here
#define memcpy(dest, ...) \
        ^
chm_lib.c:260:29: error: unknown type name 'Int32'
                            Int32 *dest)
                            ^
chm_lib.c:272:30: error: unknown type name 'UInt32'
                             UInt32 *dest)
                             ^
chm_lib.c:284:29: error: unknown type name 'Int64'
                            Int64 *dest)
                            ^
chm_lib.c:286:5: error: use of undeclared identifier 'Int64'
    Int64 temp;
    ^
chm_lib.c:290:5: error: use of undeclared identifier 'temp'
    temp=0;
    ^
chm_lib.c:293:9: error: use of undeclared identifier 'temp'
        temp <<= 8;
        ^
chm_lib.c:294:9: error: use of undeclared identifier 'temp'
        temp |= (*pData)[i-1];
        ^
chm_lib.c:296:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'temp'; did you mean 'bcmp'?
    *dest = temp;
            ^~~~

3. I tried to modified the above error file src/chm_lib.c

remove the two blocks of data type definition for 32bit machines. the make and make install can work, but the program xchm has no repsonse.

any clue?

thanks,
CZ

[rzvncj]

It's been a while since I've had access to a macOS machine, but I do know that the MacPorts build is supposed to work: https://ports.macports.org/port/xchm/

Maybe check out what they do there and adapt the steps for the latest version of xCHM?