Failure to build on MacOSX : (included in EliteQuant_Cpp-master project)

[DXXS]

I've been attempting to build the EliteQuant_Cpp-master project (which claimed to be 'unix' source, but it eventually hurls over 70% of the way through, when it gets to seasocks)

Downloaded the latest, and managed to get seasocks initial building on Mac after providing a substitute byteswap.h, changing MSG_NOSIGNAL to SO_NOSIGPIPE; however, it then fails because it has heavy dependencies on 'epoll' apparently a linux exclusive, instead of (3rd party recommendation:)"kqueue, which OSX does support".

[ 3%] Built target embedded
[ 5%] Building CXX object src/main/c/CMakeFiles/seasocks_obj.dir/Server.cpp.o
/Volumes/CodeGen/seasocks-master/src/main/c/Server.cpp:39:10: fatal error: 'sys/epoll.h' file not found
#include <sys/epoll.h>
^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [src/main/c/CMakeFiles/seasocks_obj.dir/Server.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/main/c/CMakeFiles/seasocks_obj.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

[DXXS]

williame/hellepoll#2

[hoytech]

seasocks is hardcoded to use epoll which, as you noticed, is linux-specific. I think you're going to have a hard-time getting it to work natively on os x. You could consider trying to run it inside virtual box or docker.

[DXXS]

Well, I probably wouldn't have bothered if they had said linux only; instead, they actually provide supposed Mac build instructions which don't currently seem to work, especially WRT seasocks ;
https://github.com/EliteQuant/EliteQuant_Cpp

[mattgodbolt]

Very odd! I'd love for Mac support and now actually have a Mac laptop for work. But support for it will always be second class and I don't have too much time to spend on it. If the elite quant folks have it working I'd love to know about it :)

[stzi]

A colleague and I are using seasocks for a little project on a raspberry pi. As far as it got, all seems to work fine but I would really like to be able to develop natively on my Mac. Are there any plans to support it, has anyone already done it? I can imagine to port it myself but I would prefer not to invest the time. Also I don’t know if I am qualified...

[mattgodbolt]

Hi @stzi -- no plans from me I'm afraid. I have no Mac, and I have no need of a Mac version. I don't imagine it's a huge amount of work, but I'm definitely not qualified to determine that.