Error when trying to compile in Linux

Question

I'm trying to compile tsschecker from GitHub and am having an issue. I went through and installed all the dependencies then managed to run the autogen.sh script without issue.

I'm now trying to run make but am getting the error below:

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/tss/tsschecker-master/git/tsschecker# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/tss/tsschecker-master/git/tsschecker'
Making all in tsschecker
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/tss/tsschecker-master/git/tsschecker/tsschecker'
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf -I/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf  -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0  -I../external/jssy/jssy/ -g -O2 -std=c11 -D TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT=\"304\" -D TSSCHECKER_VERSION_SHA=\"b9d193aa6e6d24421094873c830692d02d8b32f5\" -L/usr/local/lib -lplist -L/usr/local/lib -lfragmentzip -lcurl -lzip -lz -lcurl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/lib -lirecovery -lm  -o tsschecker tsschecker-tsschecker.o tsschecker-tss.o tsschecker-download.o tsschecker-main.o -L/usr/local/lib -lplist -L/usr/local/lib -lfragmentzip -lcurl -lzip -lz -lcurl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/lib -lirecovery -lm libjssy.a
libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.la'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:527: tsschecker] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tss/tsschecker-master/git/tsschecker/tsschecker'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:410: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tss/tsschecker-master/git/tsschecker'
make: *** [Makefile:342: all] Error 2

I've tried reinstalling curl but that doesn't seem to have helped. The /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory that it's looking for does not exist.

I'm quite new to this side of Linux so I apologise is anything here doesn't make sense.

Answer 1

Everything is written in the README. Anyway, you need of libcurl.la

libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.la'

you need libcurl3 (this is dependencies), then you should install it with:

$ sudo apt install libcurl3

If you have problem with the libcurl version, follow these instructions If the make needs other libraries/files you need search it in the ubuntu/debian database in the following way:

$ sudo apt install apt-file
$ sudo apt-file update
$ apt-file search my_library_to_search

Here apt-file will tell you the package that contain the file you need, from here you need to install the package you need and then continue with make. Anyway the dependencies are all in the readme:

libcurl
libplist
libfragmentzip
openssl or commonCrypto on macOS/OS X;
libirecovery