Make install errors

[rithishsamm]

• Description:

  (sameAlongWithst)

  Trying to install Arch Linux on a VirtualBox to tinker around. After archinstall, getting make install errors while installing dmenu.

  By following not the Lukesmith's Savage install but bugwriters ricing tutorial. There, He clone his repo, worked for him but not mine. error thrown. After research, found out about Luke's and cloned this st. (also errors on dmenu and dwm).

• 1. Download Arch iso, virtualbox

  2. load all the configs and run

  3. archinstall and setup

  mkdir .local/src
  cd .local/src
  git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dmenu.git
  cd dmenu
  make clean install #or
  make install

  and

  met dependency/library errors and installed:

  pacman -S pkg-config

• Expected vs. Actual Behavior:

Expected: make just runs

Actual Error:

pacman: pkg-config command not found
/bin/sh: line 1: c99: command not found
make: *** [Makefile:19: st.o] Error 12?

after installing pkg-config

/bin/sh: line 1: c99: command not found
make: *** [Makefile:19: st.o] Error 12?

• Troubleshooting Done: that i tried.

Opened Makefile. there are variables and there are CC and a lot more.

could able to resolve those. Issue for this

• Environment Details:

  • virtual box

  • arch iso

  • archinstall

  • dwm, dmenu, st

• Logs & Errors: Paste any useful logs or command

  /bin/sh: line 1: c99: command not found
  make: *** [Makefile:19: st.o] Error 12?

How do i navigate this?

[Endriken]

TLDR: try running make CC=gcc CFLAGS=-std=c99 (or clang whatever)

That's weird after running pacman -Qo c99 on my arch system I get

/usr/bin/c99 is owned by gcc 14.2.1+r753+g1cd744a6828f-1

so you don't have gcc? try running it.

Anyway c99 seems to be just a compiler that compiles ISO C as per it's man page
It's defined by posix and seems like something luke will use.
Funny part is I opened it in vim on a whim and found this.

#!/bin/sh
fl="-std=c99"
for opt; do
  case "$opt" in
    -std=c99|-std=iso9899:1999) fl="";;
    -std=*) echo "$(basename "$0") called with non ISO C99 option $opt" >&2
            exit 1;;
  esac
done
exec gcc $fl ${1+"$@"

It's just a shellscript and John Suckless ended up running a entire script in trying to avoid writing std=c99 in all his projects.