FreeBSD 11.1 install error (libconfig.h)

[kirush0280]

checking libconfig.h usability... no
checking libconfig.h presence... no
checking for libconfig.h... no
configure: error: "Unable to locate libconfig development headers."

pkg info | grep libconfig

libconfig-1.4.9_1 Simple library for manipulating structured configuration files

pkg search libconfig

libconfig-1.4.9_1 Simple library for manipulating structured configuration files
wand-libconfig-1.0.5_1 C library for parsing config files

uname -a

FreeBSD mysql 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21 02:08:28 UTC 2017 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

What package I need to add?

[cavaliercoder]

I'm not familiar with FreeBSD, but typically there are additional packages containing source headers. For example, RedHat uses libconfig-devel, Debian uses libconfig-dev. I don't see anything to this effect in your pkg search libconfig output though...

[cavaliercoder]

Alternatively, you could just download the libconfig source tarball, extract it somewhere and pass the location to your ./configure script.

[thechile]

hi @cavaliercoder @kirush0280

I just installed this on FreeBSD 12.x and had same problem... here is my solution for Zabbix 4.x which works well for me so far.

grab the precious

wget http://cdn.cavaliercoder.com/libzbxpgsql/libzbxpgsql-1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf libzbxpgsql-1.1.0.tar.gz

unpack zabbix source from ports

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix4-server/
make fetch extract

mmm how to improve ?

i don't know how to include module.h in the ./configure search path so just added it where it was looking for it.

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix4-server/
ln -s work/zabbix-4.0.3/include/module.h .

compile time

cd /path/to/libzbxpgsql
./configure --with-zabbix=/usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix4-server/ CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
make && sudo make install

fixup zabbix

mkdir /usr/local/etc/zabbix4/modules
cp  /usr/local/lib/libzbxpgsql.so /usr/local/etc/zabbix4/modules/
vim /usr/local/etc/zabbix4/zabbix_agentd.conf
LoadModulePath  =   /usr/local/etc/zabbix4/modules
LoadModule      =   libzbxpgsql.so

@cavaliercoder question about /usr/local/etc/zabbix/libzbxpgsql.conf.. is it a fixed path ? The agent failed to start because this was missing. I just created an empty file here and it's fine but how can i change this path to be in /usr/local/etc/zabbix4/ and fit with the rest of freebsd ?

Thanks,