Nate Benes

The open source BACnet stack written and maintained by Steve Karg doesn’t build out of the box on OS X Yosemite. Here’s how I got it working for version 0.8.2:

• Make sure you have the Xcode Command Line Tools installed.

• Download the latest version from Sourceforge and extract it into a folder.

• Edit the Makefile located in the demo/ folder. Find the BSD section that looks like this:

  ifeq (${BACNET_PORT},bsd)
  PFLAGS = -pthread
  TARGET_EXT =
  SYSTEM_LIB=-lc,-lgcc,-lm
  endif

  Remove the part about gcc so it looks like this:

  ifeq (${BACNET_PORT},bsd)
  PFLAGS = -pthread
  TARGET_EXT =
  SYSTEM_LIB=-lc,-lm
  endif

• Save and exit the Makefile.

• Build the stack by specifying the BSD port:

  BACNET_PORT=bsd make

  Once the build finishes, you should now have all the demo binaries inside of the bin/ folder.

I’ve reached out to Steve and hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.