Hello
I am trying to install vmware 8 on kubuntu bionic with gcc-7.3. The installation process went well until the message "gcc is not found". gcc is there but I guess vmware 8 is too old and does not recognize gcc version 7.3.
I have tried to manually compiled the modules (vmmon and stuff) but an error came out. An example is shown below.
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: At top level:
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:175:19: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
.fault = LinuxDriverFault
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:175:19: note: (near initialization for ‘vmuser_mops.fault’)
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘init_module’:
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:346:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’; did you mean ‘init_timers’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
init_timer(&linuxState.pollTimer);
^~~~~~~~~~
init_timers
Is there a workaround?
Many thanks
