How to compile on macOS

[Yukino0319]

Hi Muntashir,
I am a newcomer in macOS and interested in this project. When i download the whole code and make it, too many error occur to me,
for example netpacket/packet.h not found, and i know packet.h is in Linux.
Do I need to modify 'configure' or other config files? How can i success to compile it on macOS?
Thanks a lot!

[MuntashirAkon]

The purpose of this project is to build a wpa_supplicant for OS X so that we can continue to use RTL8188* wireless adapters after Apple drops support for 32 bit apps (the app that comes with this adapter is 32 bit). That saying, here's a brief description of how you can compile wpa_supplicant (for the above driver only) on macOS:

In /src/drivers/drivers.mak add the following lines to enable driver_osx_other driver:

ifdef CONFIG_DRIVER_OSX
DRV_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_DRIVER_OSX
DRV_OBJS += ../src/drivers/driver_osx_other.o
NEED_DRV_WIRED_COMMON=0
endif

Comment out the following lines in /wpa_supplicant/Makefile:

echo CONFIG_DRIVER_HOSTAP=y >> .config
echo CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y >> .config

And the .config file to be copied at /wpa_supplicant.

[Yukino0319]

thank u, it works for me! 👍

[aleung]

I got error:

hostap_realtek_osx-master/src/common/dhcp.h:46:15: error: field has
incomplete type 'struct iphdr'

Searched this error and knew that iphdr is not available on macOS. Add a line for workaround and it passed.

#define iphdr ip

[MuntashirAkon]

@aleung Did you follow #1 (comment) properly? This error shouldn't occur.