This patch series improves, but does not complete, OS X support for hivex. There are several outstanding issues before hivexml and hivexsh can run: * hivexsh uses open_memstream, which doesn't exist in OS X as near as I can see. Unfortunately, I'm inexperienced with autoconf, so I'm not sure how to employ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([open_memstream]) to conditionally add 'sh' to the Makefile.am's SUBDIRS. * The check for libxml fails, because PKG_CHECK_CONFIG doesn't exist on OS X. I think it would be better to use AC_CHECK_FUNCS on some of the libxml functions, but again, I'm not too hot with autoconf and automake. * hivexml has the following run-time failure: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _iconv_open Referenced from: /Users/alex/local/src/hivex/lib/.libs/libhivex.0.dylib Expected in: flat namespace dyld: Symbol not found: _iconv_open Referenced from: /Users/alex/local/src/hivex/lib/.libs/libhivex.0.dylib Expected in: flat namespace Trace/BPT trap: 5 I have the vague idea of how to address the first two, but not the last. I would appreciate any help on these. Gillen, you said earlier this weekend you had taken a stab at compiling things in OS X. Did you have to take these steps, too? --Alex Alex Nelson (3): Mac OS X: Detect bindtextdomain Mac OS X: setlocale function requires locale.h Mac OS X: Run glibtoolize in absence of libtoolize bootstrap | 2 +- configure.ac | 3 +++ sh/hivexsh.c | 3 +++ xml/hivexml.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

This patch series improves, but does not complete, OS X support for hivex. There are several outstanding issues before hivexml and hivexsh can run: * hivexsh uses open_memstream, which doesn't exist in OS X as near as I can see. Unfortunately, I'm inexperienced with autoconf, so I'm not sure how to employ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([open_memstream]) to conditionally add 'sh' to the Makefile.am's SUBDIRS.

* The check for libxml fails, because PKG_CHECK_CONFIG doesn't exist on OS X. I think it would be better to use AC_CHECK_FUNCS on some of the libxml functions, but again, I'm not too hot with autoconf and automake.

* hivexml has the following run-time failure: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _iconv_open Referenced from: /Users/alex/local/src/hivex/lib/.libs/libhivex.0.dylib Expected in: flat namespace dyld: Symbol not found: _iconv_open Referenced from: /Users/alex/local/src/hivex/lib/.libs/libhivex.0.dylib Expected in: flat namespace Trace/BPT trap: 5

libxml2 is provided in the base OS X, though one can install a different version with MacPorts. Do you have any recommendations on how to fix this check? Commenting it out works well enough on OS X, it seems.

Gillen, you seem to have the right idea in your other message, passing -liconv in hivexml_CFLAGS (also works passing in hivex_CFLAGS). I can now compile, run, and produce a lot of Chinese with hivexml. ...That last one was an unexpected feature, given the American image I was analyzing. How do you test for whether you're on a system that needs that argument, though?