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Admitting that no error results when building this library on Ubuntu; nevertheless, the following error is produced when kicking off a build for a modern MacOS (12) via pip: pip install libesedb-python

libbfio/libbfio_file.c:273:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'memory_free' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

Line 273 of the stated file indeed contains a call to memory_free(), and we see several definitions for this function in the included header file, memory.h; however, none of these definitions appear to be valid for the macOS using clang.

/* Memory free
 */
#if defined( HAVE_GLIB_H )
#define memory_free( buffer ) \
  g_free( (gpointer) buffer )

#elif defined( WINAPI )
#define memory_free( buffer ) \
  ( buffer == NULL ) ? TRUE : HeapFree( GetProcessHeap(), 0, (LPVOID) buffer )

#elif defined( HAVE_FREE )
#define memory_free( buffer ) \
  free( (void *) buffer )
#endif

The provided sln file is wrong concerning libcfile because libcfile_stream.c is no longer existing. Removing it from the libcfile tree project leads to a successful compilation.

Moreover, before being able to compile from VS, it's needed to ./configure in order to generate types.h and config.h which is not very practical when dealing with automated builds... What could be the workaround here?

libbfio can't be built on all architectures, see: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libbfio

bfio_test_handle.c:803 result (1) != -1