#54 Ubuntu 22.04.3 build fails: needs libhidapi-dev

[Reece]

Building on Ubuntu 22.04.3 (LTS) fails:

gcc -DCONFIG=\"/etc/ncid/artech2ncid.conf\" -DPIDFILE=\"/var/run/artech2ncid.pid\" -I. -I.. -I../lib -I/usr/local/include  -Wmissing-declarations -Wunused-variable -Wparentheses -Wreturn-type -Wuninitialized -Wsign-compare -Wformat -Wformat-zero-length -Wno-stringop-truncation   -c artech2ncid.c
In file included from artech2ncid.c:26:
artech2ncid.h:41:10: fatal error: hidapi/hidapi.h: No such file or directory
   41 | #include <hidapi/hidapi.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

This can be corrected by installing the package libhidapi-dev, which is not listed among the required DEB packages in the INSTALL file.

[John L. Chmielewski]

The INSTALL-DEB section in the website, and also in the source, list the libhidapi-devel package as required

From the required section, libhidapi-dev is on the second line as indicated by "-->":

 The following packages are required:
     sudo apt install build-essential fakeroot
     --> sudo apt install libpcre2-dev libhidapi-dev
     sudo apt install libphonenumber-dev libicu-dev
     sudo apt install libpcap-dev zstd rename
     sudo apt install libconfig-simple-perl libdata-hexdump-perl

You probably missed it, but thanks for reporting a possible error. It might worthwhile to include a script that would install the required packages.