installation problem

[harshkumar13]

Hi, when i run make command in macos High Sierra(64 bit). I got this error.
gcc -funroll-loops -O3 -ansi -std=c99 -pedantic-errors -Wall -I../../cfitsio/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c main.c
main.c:4:9: fatal error: 'malloc.h' file not found
#include<malloc.h>
^~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

can somebody help me how to resolve this.

[exowanderer]

Hi @harshkumar13, yes! I had the same problem and made a pull request to address it here Created check for MACOSX with MACH #3.

An example of my edits behind the pull request can be found here:
https://github.com/exowanderer/hotpants/blob/macosx_check_malloc/main.c

The gist is that I added

#if !defined(__MACH__)
#include <malloc.h>
#endif
#if defined(__MACH__)
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif

to every *.c file that imported malloc.h. OSX does not have a real malloc.h; but the underlying malloc infrastructure is the same if we use stdlib.h

Although I haven't looked at the @acbecker's HOTPANTS master branch since February, my fork still works for me now: https://github.com/exowanderer/hotpants/

[harshkumar13]

Hi,
thanks for replying, that error get solved as per your suggestions. but now a new error comes :-
main.c:14:9: fatal error: 'fitsio.h' file not found
#include<fitsio.h>
^~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [main.o] Error 1
any suggestions for this one?

[exowanderer]

I think for that, I used brew to install cfitsio; i.e. brew install cfitsio. You may need to direct the hotpants Makefile towards your /usr/local/include directory.

Just in case you don't have brew: https://brew.sh/