Fix compilation on latest mac versions with external libraries

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -76,9 +76,8 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
-        # macOS-latest == macos-14 on **ARM64**. Also macos-15 is on arm64
-        # There are some issues with external dependencies on macOS-14/15. Disable it for the time being
-        os: ["ubuntu-20.04", "ubuntu-22.04", "ubuntu-24.04", "macOS-13"]
+        # macos-14 and 15 are on **ARM64**
+        os: ["ubuntu-20.04", "ubuntu-22.04", "ubuntu-24.04", "macOS-13", "macOS-14", "macOS-15"]
         gcrypt: ["--with-local-libgcrypt", ""]
         compiler: ["cc"]
         pcre: [""]
@@ -131,25 +130,11 @@ jobs:
             nBPF: ""
             global_context: "--disable-global-context-support"
           - compiler: "cc"
-            os: macOS-13
+            os: macOS-latest
             gcrypt: ""
             pcre: "--with-pcre2"
             maxminddb: "--with-maxminddb"
-            msan: "" # Disable sanitizer on macos
-            nBPF: ""
-          - compiler: "cc"
-            os: macos-14
-            gcrypt: ""
-            pcre: ""
-            maxminddb: ""
-            msan: "" # Disable sanitizer on macos
-            nBPF: ""
-          - compiler: "cc"
-            os: macos-15
-            gcrypt: ""
-            pcre: ""
-            maxminddb: ""
-            msan: "" # Disable sanitizer on macos
+            msan: ""
             nBPF: ""
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -215,18 +200,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           ./autogen.sh --enable-option-checking=fatal --enable-debug-messages ${{ matrix.gcrypt }} ${{ matrix.msan }} ${{ matrix.pcre }} ${{ matrix.maxminddb }} --enable-tls-sigs ${{ matrix.global_context}}
       - name: Build nDPI
-        if: ${{ !startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-14') && !startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-15') }}
         run: |
           make -j all
           make -C example ndpiSimpleIntegration
           make -C rrdtool
-      - name: Build nDPI (MacOS M1)
-        if: startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-14') || startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-15')
-        run: |
-          make -j all
-          make -C example ndpiSimpleIntegration
-          # There are somes issues with librrd
-          # make -C rrdtool
       - name: Print nDPI long help
         run: |
           cd ./example && ./ndpiReader -H
@@ -244,7 +221,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           NDPI_FORCE_PARALLEL_UTESTS=1 NDPI_SKIP_PARALLEL_BAR=1 ./tests/do.sh
       - name: Test nDPI [UNIT]
-        if: ${{ !startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-14') && !startsWith(matrix.os, 'macos-15') }}
         run: |
           ./tests/do-unit.sh
       - name: Test nDPI [DGA]

.github/workflows/build_scheduled.yml

@@ -73,19 +73,17 @@ jobs:
     name: Performance (ubuntu-latest)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
-      GO111MODULE: on
       CFLAGS: -Werror
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Install Ubuntu Prerequisites
         run: |
-          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
           sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install libunwind-dev
           sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gettext flex bison libpcap-dev parallel
-          sudo apt-get install golang-1.16-go libgoogle-perftools-dev graphviz
+          sudo apt-get install libgoogle-perftools-dev graphviz
           go install github.com/google/pprof@latest
           sudo ln -s ${HOME}/go/bin/pprof /usr/bin/pprof
           pprof -h
@@ -122,7 +120,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Ubuntu Prerequisites
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gettext flex bison libjson-c libpcap-dev rrdtool librrd-dev parallel
+          sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gettext flex bison libjson-c-dev libpcap-dev rrdtool librrd-dev parallel
       - name: Configure nDPI
         run: |
           ./autogen.sh --enable-option-checking=fatal --with-thread-sanitizer

configure.ac

@@ -190,6 +190,26 @@ echo "Setting API version to ${NDPI_API_VERSION}"
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NDPI_GIT_RELEASE, "${GIT_RELEASE}", [GIT Release])
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NDPI_GIT_DATE, "${GIT_DATE}", [Last GIT change])
 
+NDPI_CFLAGS="-W -Wall -Wno-address-of-packed-member ${NDPI_CFLAGS}"
+
+dnl> MacOS brew.sh
+HOMEBREW_DIR=/opt/homebrew
+if test -d $HOMEBREW_DIR; then
+ # On latest macOS versions on M* archs, some (all?) libraries are not installed
+ # "system-wide" anymore.
+ NDPI_CFLAGS="${NDPI_CFLAGS} -I ${HOMEBREW_DIR}/include"
+ NDPI_LDFLAGS="${NDPI_LDFLAGS} -L ${HOMEBREW_DIR}/lib"
+
+ # While updating NDPI_CFLAGS/NDPI_LDFLAGS is obvious, we need to update
+ # CFLAGS/LDFLAGS as well, because only these variables are used internally by
+ # autoconf to check for libraries.
+ # The core reason is likely that internally in our Makefiles we use
+ # NDPI_CFLAGS/NDPI_LDFLAGS instead of the standard CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
+ # See: 7c19de49047a5731f3107ff17854e9afe839cc61 for details
+ CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I ${HOMEBREW_DIR}/include"
+ LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L ${HOMEBREW_DIR}/lib"
+fi
+
 if ! test "${with_only_libndpi+set}" = set; then :
     dnl> used by json-c for unit tests
     PKG_CHECK_MODULES([JSONC], [json-c], [
@@ -226,8 +246,6 @@ AS_IF([test "x${enable_tls_sigs}" = "xyes"],[
   HANDLE_TLS_SIGS=""
 ])
 
-NDPI_CFLAGS="-W -Wall -Wno-address-of-packed-member ${NDPI_CFLAGS}"
-
 AS_IF([test "${with_lto_and_gold_linker+set}" = set], [
        NDPI_CFLAGS="${NDPI_CFLAGS} -flto -fuse-ld=gold -Wno-unused-command-line-argument"
        NDPI_LDFLAGS="${NDPI_LDFLAGS} ${NDPI_CFLAGS}"