Error building on OSX -- fatal error: 'snappy-c.h' file not found

[tleyden]

Steps to build:

$ brew install cmake
$ brew install snappy # note, I didn't use "sudo", does that make a difference?
$ git clone <repo>
$ cd forestdb && mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../

Cmake output: https://gist.github.com/tleyden/555a6ea565f768c739f3

When I ran make all, I got an error:

[ 27%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/docio_test.dir/src/docio.cc.o
/Users/tleyden/DevLibraries/forestdb/src/docio.cc:26:10: fatal error: 'snappy-c.h' file not found
#include "snappy-c.h"
         ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/docio_test.dir/src/docio.cc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/docio_test.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Full make all output: https://gist.github.com/tleyden/86c926a85adfd9d175da

I do have snappy-c.h in my /usr/local/Cellar dir:

$ find /usr/local/Cellar -iname "*snappy*"
/usr/local/Cellar/snappy
/usr/local/Cellar/snappy/1.1.1/include/snappy-c.h
....

but it doesn't seem to be found during the compilation. Is my brew misconfigured or do I need to do another step?

[ajres]

I repeated these steps, I only diverged with make, I used :

sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make all

All completed without error

[snej]

You should file issues in Jira ... Couchbase Server project, ForestDB component.

[mschoch]

If we don't want issues filed here, we should disable them in the settings for this project.

[tleyden]

Oh ok. I'm going to close this out anyway, because @ajres tried it and it worked fine for him.

[josiahjohnston]

I ran into this same issue, and didn't find a solution posted anywhere. A search led me to this page, so I'm posting my quick fix here.

My quick fix was up environment variables to pass all the library & header paths that I needed (in my case, both openssl & snappy installed from homebrew). If there's a standard way of making homebrew link those to the standard include & lib directories, that might be a better solution.

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib -L/usr/local/opt/snappy/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/local/opt/snappy/include"

[hisundar]

Yup, those look good. Thanks so much @josiahjohnston !

[cantoniazzi]

Thanks @josiahjohnston your tips works to me. 🥇