You need development headers and libraries for libstdc++, curl, elfutils and (optional) binutils and libiberty to build kcov. Note that elfutils is found in multiple variants, and at least in RH/Centos/Fedora you'll need elfutils-devel and not elfutils-libelf-devel.
Install binutils-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev zlib1g-dev libdw-dev libiberty-dev
Install elfutils-libelf-devel libcurl-devel binutils-devel elfutils-devel
brew install zlib bash cmake pkgconfig
Temporary OSX build instructions due to Issue #166:
Create an empty build dir and do the following steps:
cd <build-dir>
cmake -G Xcode <path/to/kcov/source/dir>
xcodebuild -configuration Release
The binary will be in src/Release/kcov
Create an empty build dir and do the following steps:
cmake [options] <path/to/kcov/source/dir>
make
make install
Useful options include -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= (installation prefix), -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE= and -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=.
Basic example:
cd /path/to/kcov/source/dir
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install
More advanced example:
cd /path/to/kcov/source/dir
mkdir build
cd build
cmake \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="-O3 -march=i686" \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
..
make -j2 || exit 1
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/kcov-build || exit 1
For further information refer to cmake documentation: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html.
If you have elfutils installed, but cmake fails to find it, specify elfutils install prefix explicitly to cmake. Here is an example:
cd kcov
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/elfutils-dir/ \
cmake .
make
make install