Cannot compile Noise.c on Kernel 5.0?

Jordan Glover Golden_Miller83 at protonmail.ch
Thu Jan 17 00:49:17 CET 2019


On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 5:37 PM, Sam Cater <sam at samcater.com> wrote:

> Hi Wireguard Mailing List,
>
> Probably going to be showing a lot of ignorance here!
>
> Wireguard has run fine on this system in the past, but today I tried to
> build 20181218 on self-built 5.0 kernel (which in and of itself seems
> stable and working fine). The compile fails on src/noise.o with the
> issue linked below on line 453.
>
> If I switch back to the stock 4.19 kernel provided by Fedora then
> everything compiles fine. It's also worth mentioning that the same issue
> appears to happen when I install the COPR packages for Fedora.
>
> Appreciate I'm a non-standard kernel but just in case it is a Linux 5
> incompatibility rather than "I can't build software", I thought I'd post
> here in case it was helpful.
>
> Mini paste at: https://pastebin.com/raw/W4LRT5bx

For Linux 5.0 you need to use wireguard snapshot from git:
https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/log/

The error you posted was fixed by:
https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/commit/?id=a56a0fee861d104b9bdb22847656fc40a9b13079

Later in build there will be another error fixed by:
https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/commit/?id=eb8316abc24da2e38de65d88c519aa8dfd6227f4

Jordan


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