Server.c trying to run it on mac

Question

I tried running server.c outside the appliance on my mac and when compiling got the following message server.c:358:26: error: implicit declaration of function 'memmem' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration] needle = memmem(haystack, size, "\r\n\r\n", 4); ^ server.c:358:26: note: did you mean 'memset'? /usr/include/string.h:74:7: note: 'memset' declared here void *memset(void *, int, size_t); ^ server.c:358:24: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'char *' from 'int' [-Werror,-Wint-conversion] needle = memmem(haystack, size, "\r\n\r\n", 4); ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ server.c:375:60: error: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Werror,-Wformat] if (dprintf(cfd, "Content-Length: %i\r\n", length) < 0) ~~ ^~~~~~ %zu server.c:426:60: error: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'ssize_t' (aka 'long') [-Werror,-Wformat] if (dprintf(cfd, "Content-Length: %i\r\n", length) < 0) ~~ ^~~~~~ %zi server.c:727:15: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'int' [-Werror,-Wint-conversion] ...needle = memmem(haystack, request + length - haystack, "\r\n\r\n", 4); ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 errors generated.

I've installed all the libraries required for programming with C on my mac and why didn't the compiling worked?

Answer 1

From the look of it, it seems you may have omitted the function prototype for memmem.

error: implicit declaration of function 'memmem' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

Since a compiler reads source code from left to right top to bottom, this is just a cryptic way of saying "I've gone through your program and did not see anything related to the function you are calling."

The next line:

note: did you mean 'memset'?

Is just trying to be helpful by suggesting a function that the language knows up until this point.

The other four errors were generated from each of the arguments passed into the function. As it was stated in the prior weeks, you'll just need to fix the first error to fix all of the errors.

If you get any errors regarding this function after adding in the prototype for this function, you may have spelling issues.

Hope this helps.