Compiling from source Debian 7 about ntopng

[ariava]

@pcmerc seems that different versons of libnetfilter_queue have different prototypes for the nfq_get_payload() function. We'll discuss about this issue shortly.

[lucaderi]

@pcmerc I have just compiled on Debian 7.7 and it compiles flawlessly.

[zekicker]

I've the same issue there !

src/NetfilterInterface.cpp: In function 'int netfilter_callback(nfq_q_handle_, nfgenmsg_, nfq_data_, void_)':
src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:86: error: invalid conversion from 'unsigned char**' to 'char**'
src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:86: error: initializing argument 2 of 'int nfq_get_payload(nfq_data_, char__)'
make: *_* [src/NetfilterInterface.o] Error 1

[lucaderi]

Same as above: no problem on debian 7.7

[pcmerc]

I've removed nDPI & updated to the latest GIT version.
I've also updated to the latest version of ntopng through git.
Previous versions built no problem.

I am still receiving the same error & I'm running the latest deb 7 release.
Do I need to setup a new vm instance & prove otherwise?

src/NetfilterInterface.cpp: In function ‘int netfilter_callback(nfq_q_handle_, nfgenmsg_, nfq_data_, void_)’:
src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:86:64: error: invalid conversion from ‘unsigned char**’ to ‘char**’ [-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/xxx/ntopng/include/ntop_includes.h:107:0,
from src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:22:
/usr/include/libnetfilter_queue/libnetfilter_queue.h:99:12: error: initializing argument 2 of ‘int nfq_get_payload(nfq_data_, char__)’ [-fpermissive]
make: *_* [src/NetfilterInterface.o] Error 1

[pcmerc]

Loading up a fresh instance to verify the build failure.

[pcmerc]

New compile on fresh build of debian 7.8 running now
nDPI compiled & installed prior

[pcmerc]

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install git screen vim build-essential devscripts libnetfilter-queue-dev autoconf libtool libpcap-dev libjson0-dev autogen automake autoconf libtool libjsoncpp-dev
libjson-glib-dev libjson-c-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libgeoip-dev libxml2-dev

mkdir /usr/xxx
cd /usr/xxx
git clone https://github.com/ntop/ntopng.git
git clone https://github.com/ntop/nDPI.git

cd nDPI
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

cd ../ntopng
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Same exact error on a fresh build vm instance of Debian 7.8 w/latest updates applied

src/NetfilterInterface.cpp: In function ‘int netfilter_callback(nfq_q_handle_, nfgenmsg_, nfq_data_, void_)’:
src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:86:64: error: invalid conversion from ‘unsigned char**’ to ‘char**’ [-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/xxx/ntopng/include/ntop_includes.h:107:0,
from src/NetfilterInterface.cpp:22:
/usr/include/libnetfilter_queue/libnetfilter_queue.h:99:12: error: initializing argument 2 of ‘int nfq_get_payload(nfq_data_, char__)’ [-fpermissive]
make: *_* [src/NetfilterInterface.o] Error 1

Please explain your build environment

[gav-]

Same issue, have to remove libnetfilter-queue-dev package to compile on Debian 7.8

[lucaderi]

Please send us a patch for inclusion. I do not use Debian,

[MartinAparicio]

is there any solution? I have the same problem

[lucaderi]

Said that we are working at packaging Debian .deb I see the the latest version is 8.2, so in no case we will support v7. Please start moving to 8x.

[MartinAparicio]

Thanks for the answer but I do not use Debian, I use Gentoo.

But this error is because of what? It is missing some plug upgrade? Or the version of the kernel?

regards

[lucaderi]

Your netfilter library is too old as the API has changed. We cannot support all Linux distro and multiple versions of them. You need to help yourself and send us a patch, or move to a distribution we use and support.

[pcmerc]

I was able to get it working on 7 by building an updated deb for a dependency.

Works for me on both 7 & 8 :D

John~

On Sep 30, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Luca Deri <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Your netfilter library is too old as the API has changed. We cannot support all Linux distro and multiple versions of them. You need to help yourself and send us a patch, or move to a distribution we use and support.

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[lucaderi]

Note that we release Debian 8 binaries: http://packages.ntop.org/apt/