[Mesa-users] Issue with installing MESA

[RICHARD H D TOWNSEND]

Dear Natsuko —

It looks like your C compiler isn’t working quite right. Can you post the output of the following two commands:

which gcc
gcc -v

Many thanks,

Rich

> On May 27, 2024, at 11:50 AM, Yamaguchi, Natsuko via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm trying to install MESA version r24.03.1 and I get this error in the 'building the utils package' step (the full build.log file is also attached to this email). 
> 
> CC ../private/utils_c_system.c
> ../private/utils_c_system.c:42:27: error: initializer element is not a compile-time constant
> static const int LEN_TEMP=strlen(TEMPLATE);
>                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.
> make: *** [utils_c_system.o] Error 1
> 
> I have installed the same version of MESA before on a different computer, and it worked without problems. Does anyone know what's going on?
> 
> Other potentially relevant information:
> - MESASDK: version 23.10.1 
> - Machine: Macbook Pro, M3 Pro, Sonoma 14.5
> 
> Thank you so much! 
> 
> Natsuko Yamaguchi <build.log>_______________________________________________
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
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