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scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such file or directory · 6 | #include <dwarf.h> | ^~~~~~~~~ tyagivivek1495 December 2025 · Use below command to install package · sudo apt-get install libdwarf-dev · tyagivivek1495 December 2025 ·
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October 14, 2025 -

I tried to follow the rust for linux quick setup in order to learn some kernel programming in rust , but when I tried to compile the kernel using make LLVM=1 it showed this error :

scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: 'dwarf.h' file not found

6 | #include <dwarf.h>

| ^~~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:131: scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: scripts/gendwarfksyms] Error 2

make[1]: *** [/home/pc/os2-rs/linux/Makefile:1263: scripts] Error 2

make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

anyone can help me with please I'm stuck for hours

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you missing package libdwarf-dev , you need dwarf.h
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Have you looked for where dwarf.h would come from? It looks like you are building a user space tool to me that is used as part of the build process, so I would expect this is something that can be installed with your package manager. Check that you installed all dependencies for Rust kernel development. If you don't have a list of required packages for your distro a tip is that for all Linux distros that I know of, there are ways to search for which package provides a file. The command varies between distros, but use that to look for which package provides dwarf.h and install it.
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February 3, 2025 - scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such file or directory ·
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[syzbot] linux-next build error (19)
Hello, syzbot found the following issue on: HEAD commit: a13f6e0f405e Add linux-next specific files for 20250130 git tree: linux-next console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10221ddf980000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=3445081dab63716c dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=62ba359e1dfec1473c57 compiler: Debian clang version 15.0.6, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40 IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit: Reported-by: syzbot+62ba35...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such file or directory --- This report is generated by a bot.
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Re: [syzbot] linux-next build error (19) — Linux Next
February 2, 2025 - On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM ... syzbot+62ba359e1dfec1473c57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such file or directory > > gendwarfksyms depends on libdw, so on a Debian system, I assume > libdw-dev ...
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Re: [syzbot] linux-next build error (19)
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM syzbot <syzbot+62ba359e1dfec1473...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > syzbot found the following issue on: > > HEAD commit: a13f6e0f405e Add linux-next specific files for 20250130 > git tree: linux-next > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10221ddf980000 > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=3445081dab63716c > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=62ba359e1dfec1473c57 > compiler: Debian clang version 15.0.6, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) > 2.40 > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit: > Reported-by: syzbot+62ba359e1dfec1473...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > > scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such > file or directory
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[package] backward-cpp/1.6: Build fails on Linux with `dwarf.h: No such file or directory` · Issue #16799 · conan-io/conan-center-index
March 30, 2023 - It's similar to #16787, but this issue is about an other missing dependency when stack_details=dwarf.
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April 25, 2017 - > cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -- Found procps: /usr/lib64/libprocps.so -- Using bundled SNAPPY -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib64/libz.so (found suitable version "1.2.8", minimum required is "1.2.6") -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib64/libz.so (found version "1.2.8") -- libdwarf not found. Disabling Backtrace support. -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /home/moozaad/Documents/dev/apitrace/build · I added some debug to https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/blob/master/thirdparty/libbacktrace/CMakeLists.txt#L126 · include (CheckIncludeFile) check_in
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So after too many hours finally it's been solved. It goes like this:

  1. Download libdwarf-20130207.tar.gz

  2. Extract the archive and in a new terminal type:

    cd dwarf-2013-02-07/libdwarf
./configure --enable-shared
make -j$(nproc)

  3. If you need a 32 bit library (as in my case), just open the MakeFile and add -m32 to CFLAGS

    CFLAGS = -m32 $(PREINCS) -g -O2 $(INCLUDES) $(dwfpic) $(POSTINCS)

  4. At the end, just copy the libdwarf.so into /usr/lib

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I suspect this wasn't true when the question was asked, but in 2018:

sudo apt-get install libelf-dev libdwarf-dev

You might also be interested in https://github.com/aclements/libelfin.

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root@fedora linux-6.0]# make menuconfig YACC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch] /bin/sh: line 1: bison: command not found make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:17: scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.h] Error 127 make: *** [Makefile:632: menuconfig] Error 2 [root@fedora linux-6.0]# ... HDRINST usr/include/asm/resource.h HDRINST usr/include/asm/socket.h HDRINST usr/include/asm/sockios.h HDRINST usr/include/asm/termbits.h HDRINST usr/include/asm/termios.h HDRINST usr/include/asm/types.h DESCEND objtool <stdin>:1:10: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.