Compiling dosfsck under Natty Narwhal

[dzchimp]

I'm new to both Ubuntu and C compilation. I want to compile a version of dosfsck..

I download the latest source as tar.gz and executed:

#:~/Downloads/comp/dosfstools-3.0.9/src$ gcc -o kkkk dosfsck.c

I get the following output:

dosfsck.c:(.text+0x34a): undefined reference to `file_add'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x3bb): undefined reference to `file_add'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x4ba): undefined reference to `fs_open'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x4c6): undefined reference to `read_boot'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x4ea): undefined reference to `qfree'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x4f9): undefined reference to `read_fat'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x505): undefined reference to `scan_root'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x51e): undefined reference to `fix_bad'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x534): undefined reference to `reclaim_file'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x542): undefined reference to `reclaim_free'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x54e): undefined reference to `update_free'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x557): undefined reference to `file_unused'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x563): undefined reference to `qfree'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x59b): undefined reference to `read_fat'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x5a7): undefined reference to `scan_root'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x5b3): undefined reference to `reclaim_free'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x5bf): undefined reference to `qfree'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x5d0): undefined reference to `fs_changed'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x5fa): undefined reference to `get_key'
dosfsck.c:(.text+0x66e): undefined reference to `fs_close'

To be honest, the docu does say: dosfsck needs header files from dosfs.9 (or later) to compile

Being new at this, I cant seem to find how to get these header files. I tried to find source code for dosfs, in an effort to copy these .h files to y src dir, but didnt get them either. Would be glad if someone can guide me..

[atreyu]

Is there any reason why you don't just run make in the parent directory? I got the same error you did when I tried the same command on that source tarball, but running make, while b!tching alot, did compile dosfsck successfully for me.

[dzchimp]

Is there any reason why you don't just run make in the parent directory? I got the same error you did when I tried the same command on that source tarball, but running make, while b!tching alot, did compile dosfsck successfully for me.

Thanks! I discovered this only 10 mins ago..
I'm actally using Ubuntu to build a binary for Android using the Android NDK toolchain..Make definitely gave me a binary, now have to find out to cross compile and add libraries statically to the binary so that it works on the phone,,

[Rubberman]

Why compile it? You should have a version on your system in /sbin if you have the dosfstools package installed.