Re: [sleuthkit-users] problem compiling sleuthkit 2.07 on cygwin

[DePriest, J. R. <jrd...@gm...>]

On 12/18/06, Brian Carrier wrote:
> This was my fault.  The system I built the release file from did not
> have the afflib directory synced up with the lastest version.
>
> You can download the latest AFFLIB, open it, rename the directory to
> 'afflib', replace the existing src/afflib directory with it, and compile
> again.
>
> I'll do a new release at the end of the week.
>
> brian
>
> Simson Garfinkel wrote:
> > Hi. Cygwin is sometimes a problem. Here, in particular, the problem
> > is that valloc() is not part of cygwin, but it is part of most modern
> > Unix distributions.
> >
> > You can simply change "valloc" to "malloc" in line 542 of
> > afflib_pages.cpp to fix the problem.
> >
> > The new release of AFFLIB also fixes this problem. You can download
> > that from afflib.org.
> >
> > -Simson
> >

I did both.  I downloaded the new release and changed valloc to malloc.

It worked fine after that.

Thanks!

-Jason