Failed to build on Mac

[ytfei]

When built on Mac, I got .depend:1: *** missing separator. Stop.

make --version

GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

[darkk]

What C compiler do you use? Only gcc is supported for .depend file generation.

[ytfei]

redsocks$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
Thread model: posix

what should i do if wish to build redsocks on Mac? install gcc or simply update the Makefile ? Sorry i'm not familiar with C

[jondb]

@darkk the issue is with the command echo -n.

On Ubuntu, it works

$ sh -c 'echo -n bob'
bob$
$ ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 17  2014 /bin/sh -> dash

On OSX, it doesn't work with sh

$ sh -c 'echo -n bob'
-n bob
$ 
$ sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$

But it does with bash.

The fix

Set the shell in the Makefile. Add this to the top:

SHELL := /bin/bash

example:

 DEPS := .depend
 OUT := redsocks
 VERSION := 0.4
+SHELL := /bin/bash

 LIBS := -levent
 CFLAGS += -g -O2

[darkk]

I have no permanent root access to machines running MacOSX to test and develop for this platform. Was v0.4 ever working on MacOSX? If it was, please contribute documentation with working MacOSX firewall configuration guidelines.

Also, I'm closing this issue in favor of #75 that tracks current MacOSX support status.