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equivalent .sh or make file for a .BAT file

I bought a book yesterday on OS development however, the book is written for windows systems and this was not mentioned in the description. I need to convert a .BAT file into an equivalent shell ...
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booting from qemu with self-made bare minimum OS

I wrote a minimal OS to boot from in nasm. org 0x7C00 ;because the OS is loaded at address 0x7C00 bits 16 ;because we start in 16 bit mode main: hlt .halt jmp .halt times 510-($-$$) db 0 dw ...
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Makefile for kernel module - error

I made a simple kernel module and a defult Makefile I was given in lecture. obj-m += module.o all: make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules clean: make -C /lib/modules/$(...
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I am unable to compile makefile. Am I doing something wrong? How can I fix this?

I am still a begginer at using Ubuntu. I've been trying to run a makefile with some .sv and .ys codes containing simple verilog and yosys exaples. The makefile contains: SYNTH = yosys rtl: ${...
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linking not done using make command

I am working on Ubuntu. I am running make command but it is not working, an error is generated. I am sharing the error below. gcc: warning: pr1: linker input file unused because linking not done gcc ...
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Custom Linux Kernel Module Can't be Inserted in WSL 2

OS: Windows 11, WSL2(Ubuntu 22.04) inside WSL2, command uname -r returns: 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Firstly, I dowloaded the correct version of Linux kernel from Github: WSL2-Linux-Kernel. ...
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I am getting an error [Makefile:324: install-libLTLIBRARIES] and [Makefile:514: install-am] during make install in my Ubuntu 22.04

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by libmfile configure 1.0, which was generated by GNU ...
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Makefile:372: install-zenmap Error 1

help please followed instructions get this error [Makefile:372: install-zenmap] Error 1 is there a fix
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Use h5c++ and mpic++ wrapper compiler at the same time: makefile

I need to use the mpi and hdf5 wrap-up compilers in my makefile. What should I do? My naive approach was to add the h5c++ makefile command: CC := mpic++ hc5++ -std=c++14 -g -pedantic Which does not ...
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ERROR make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop

I am getting error for "make" command" as below: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. Here are the two command lines after downloading a Git repository: ./...
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Why the variable value is not changing in the function?

In the following function main_script, the variable DEFAULT_BACKUP_DIR is not working as intended because the value /home/user/BACKUP is not assigned to it which I do not know why, and when I try to ...
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How to Add a New Path to pkg-config?

I've just start using GNU make because of a software package I'm trying to install. The tutorial is really good, but for some reason I'm not able to do it properly. I downloaded the files, extracted ...
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could not build custom configured nginx

I am using UBUNTU server 22.04, openssl version 3.0.2 and I was trying to build custom configured NGINX as a proxy for mail server however, when I run 'make' it gives me error. For that i referred to ...
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Error when using 'make install' command in qbittorrent installation

I am attempting to install qbittorrent software from tar.gz (https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php) on ubuntu 22.04. I can unpack the zip files, run configure, and make executes just fine, but when ...
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debuild cannot remove '..' permission denied, debian/rules:9: recipe for target 'clean' failed

I am trying to run debuild command to work with debian with my project However, when I run debuild command I get such error: hoseopjeong@hoseopjeong-VirtualBox:~/Documents/HoseopJeong_debian_lab9/...
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Arguments for make

I know you can pass arguments like parameters, for example, make foo=bar. I am wondering if I can do this with only one argument, without the variable. For example, this is what I would like to do: ...
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Linking Zlib with source compilation

I have compiled Libz using these steps: wget -c --no-check-certificate https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.12.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/home/zlib1/ make make install Similarly I have compiled OpenSSL and ...
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Kernel Module exit message get printed next time when inserting the module

I have written simple kernel module to print Hello kernel msg. my_module.c #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/init.h> /* Meta Information */ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); ...
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how do I modify makefile which is already compiled?

Let's say I have a makefile which looks like this: all: a_functions.o b_functions.o c_functions.o d_functions.o main.o gcc -o all a_functions.o b_functions.o c_functions.o d_functions.o main.o ...
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can't remove a game installed by make install command

I wanted to install a launcher which is actually for enter and play in a server in Minecraft(I don't know if giving the name of the game is forbidden) and to do this I went to the website of the ...
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How to get Six (an old KDE game program) running in Kubuntu 20.04

Six was a gold-medal winner several times in a computer games olympiad. The source code is on GitHub https://github.com/melisgl/six/tree/master/six. It has been pinned for a couple of decades, but I ...
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"/usr/include/stdio.h:27:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory" when compiling HTK

I'm trying to compile the HTK library, but run into issues: $ make all (cd HTKLib && make HTKLib.a) \ || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; make[1]: Entering directory '/...
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Unreal 4 compiled successfully but UE4Editor file doesn't exist

I have Ubuntu 20.04 on a desktop with an old i7 CPU and 16 GiB of RAM. Here are the commands I ran to compile Unreal 4.27: ./Setup.sh ./GenerateProjectFiles.sh make -j 4 make -j 4 ShaderCompileWorker ...
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Cannot source venv using makefile

The Makefile inside project root # Makefile .PHONY: help help: @echo "Commands:" @echo "venv : creates development environment." # Environment .ONESHELL: venv: ...
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GNU make executes weird shell

The shell function in GNU make behaves weird on Ubuntu. Consider this simple Makefile: TEST1 := $(shell command -v sh) TEST2 := $(shell /bin/sh -c 'command -v sh') all: $(info TEST1 = $(TEST1))...
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How to solve "make" issue while cross-compiling on the ubuntu

I am trying to cross-compile this (ultralytics/yolov5) project on my ubuntu machine. Since I am compiling it for my another machine "raspberry Pi" so I already installed the toolchain which ...
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insmod: ERROR: could not insert module simpleModule.ko: Operation not permitted

I'm a beginner learning about linux kernel. I tried to insert a simple module but encountered the following error. sudo insmod simpleModule.ko [sudo] password: insmod: ERROR: could not insert module ...
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Where to put library to allow programs to see it? [duplicate]

I wanted to compile mosaic on my ubuntu machine, but while compiling, I did not have right libpng version, so the compilation aborted with error: error: invalid use of incomplete typedef ‘png_struct’ {...
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Is it possible to avoid executing make and make install with sudo?

Whenever it is possible, I try to use applications, libraries and plugins delivered through official Ubuntu APT. However, sometimes I try to compile something, like resynthesizer plugin for GIMP. In ...
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Makefile with if statement error

Attempting to create a makefile with a run rule which has an if in it. When I run the command make run it returns this error: /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then&...
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Makefile: python: command not found

I have a Makefile that contains these two lines run: sim @python run.py $(INPUT) When I tried to run make run, I got the error message saying python is not found. I soon realized that was because ...
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makedepf90: program for automatic creation of Makefile-style dependency lists for Fortran source code

I assumed it is only a couple of seconds installing this program, but it confuses me honestly. this program is for the automatic creation of Makefile-style dependency lists for Fortran source code. I ...
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Error when using 'make install' command

I am attempting to install the WRF weather software (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/compilation_tutorial.php#STEP7) that requires the installation of certain libraries. I can unpack the ...
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Install wxWidgets-3.1.4, Install Code::Blocks

After downloading and installing (./configure, make install) the latest wxWidgets-3.1.4 version from official page. I checked out latest Code::sBlocks with svn from official repository. In the folder ...
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collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status while compiling

first i want to say that i looked for every solution for this problem in the site ,but no luck ! i have a project which i'm trying to compile , when i compile it on Ubuntu 14 everything is ok , but ...
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Software-installation error (makefile) on Ubuntu 20.04

I was trying to install geopsy software, but when I ran sudo make install the following error occured: cd mseed/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake -o Makefile /opt/geopsy-3.3.0/...
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Newbie: How to use QMAKE to compile and install FaustLive on Ubuntu Studio 20.04? Can't create Makefile with qmake w/ linux-g++

FaustLive is an open source prototyping environment for Faust (open source, compiled audio programming language). Here is FaustLive's GitHub: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlive After successfully ...
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"make" command does not work in directories containing "space"

I often use make to compile programs. But, sometimes, only with some packages, when the directory contains a space, it says: No such file or directory Example: If I run make in the directory /home/...
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shell unnanme -r command not found

shantanu@LAPTOP-3NM82R8U:~/c$ make make: unname-r: Command not found make -C/lib/modules//build M=/home/shantanu/cmodules make[1]: *** /lib/modules//build: No such file or directory. Stop. Makefile:3:...
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Unable to locate package makefile

Hello everyone I am new in using Ubuntu operating system and facing a problem. I have installed GCC using sudo apt-get install gcc but when I run the following command sudo apt-get install ...
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Make error with Grib2 and Netcdf

I am trying to install a software package designed for weather modeling. This can be found here https://github.com/usgs/volcano-ash3d-metreader. The issue comes when I am trying to execute the 'Make ...
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cannot execute binary file: Exec format error - Ubuntu 16.04 + Make + GCC

I am aware that other people had similar issues but mine seem to be unique as I am not making obvious mistakes. I have reviewed other questions and putting all required details below. When I am ...
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Finding -lgcc_s

I'm trying to install a program that seems to use libgcc_s.so. After implementing the possible remedies suggested in the SO:LINK, I still can't figure out why the compiler fails to find it. I get the ...
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How to stop "make" from running "clean"?

Have a Makefile like this: all: build build: dot2tex -ftikz temporal_dag.dot --figonly > temporal_dag.tex latex notes && bibtex notes && latex notes && ...
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make: *** No rule to make target 'ell/util.c' needed by 'ell/util.lo'

I need to install ofono, so I cloned this ofono repository and did autoreconf -fi and ./configure in the directory. But when I am running make or sudo make install I am encountering the following ...
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How to make 'Make' to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name

How can we modify a Makefile script to handle more new pairs of source files indicated by its extension name to be compiled by Make automatically correctly and preferably interactively #... objects = ...
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Problem while executing a Makefile

i'm installing the Rocket-Chip repository. I'm following the instructions from https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip. The instructions are: $ git clone https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip....
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Continue custom kernel creation and not start over again from square one

Task: Create a custom Ubuntu kernel from git sources (in my case hwe-branch). Short summary: I want to fix a error reported by the build scripts and then repeat only the last compilation/packaging ...
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Packaging fails upon compiling 16.04 HWE kernel

Short summary: Packaging script looks in wrong path. Detailed error summary: To compile the kernel, I used the compilation instructions from here, which included the steps: Checkout git sources ...
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configure: error: enet not found

I am trying to build 7kaa game on my Ubuntu machine. To build Makefile.am, I ran ./configure and the tail of the result is checking for gettext... yes checking for iconv... yes checking for OPENAL......
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