How to Install Valgrind Properly

How to install valgrind properly?

All major linux distributions will include valgrind in their repositories. You can find this on debian derived, apt based systems with:

apt search valgrind

But first just try:

apt install valgrind

It should work, and pull in any dependencies. Remember, if you are not the superuser, you'll need to preface those with sudo.

It's a great tool, have fun.

trying to install valgrind but stuck at make valgrind, how?

Step 3 (configure), likely didn't complete correctly due to missing dependecies/libraries, check the output of that command.

Edit: You need a newer version of Valgrind that supports kernel 3.x, now they are at valgrind-3.10.1, that will work.

How to install Valgrind on Ubuntu 16.04?

Paul R's comment may need to be put as answer.

I don't see any error in the make log.
Your output of calling valgrind actually shows it has been correctly installed.

See here for the usage of valgrind. See here for more details for your problem.

Is there a way to install Valgrind on Catalina?

Ok. I've found a way to use Valgrind on Catalina. Here's a link to my guide for how https://github.com/john-yohan-park/Valgrind_Catalina

Yosemite and Valgrind

As there's no stable release that supports Yosemite, you can install the latest development version with

brew install --HEAD valgrind

make fails while installing Valgrind

Make sure to install the command line tools.

xcode-select --install

Cross compiling and deploying Valgrind to an embedded linux device

An example of cross compiling valgrind with Yocto toolchain would be :

# setup workspace
mkdir workspace && cd workspace

# download Yocto sdk
wget http://gumstix-yocto.s3.amazonaws.com/sdk.sh

#Install it to workspace/sdk
./sdk.sh

source sdk/environment-setup-cortexa8hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi

# download valgrind tarball
wget http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2

# extract source
tar jxf valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 && cd valgrind-3.12.0

# this fix issue with unknown arm architecture (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29514706/cross-compiling-valgrind-for-arm)
sed -i -e "s#armv7#arm#g" configure

./configure --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --prefix="$(pwd)/out"

make -j16

make install

Here, the installation directory is out, you can also install to ${SDKTARGETSYSROOT}/usr with --prefix="${SDKTARGETSYSROOT}/usr"

Check this link for the basic example of cross compile with Yocto SDK

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