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Answer : Just run in the command line: xcode-select --install In OS X 10.9+, the command line developer tools are now installed on demand. So after running this also zlib and zlib-devel should be available (no need for brew install zlib...) For OS X Mojave sudo installer -pkg /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target / The reason is because Xcode Command Line tools no longer installs needed headers in /include. You have to run a separate command to install the needed headers. As noted here - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_10_release_notes The command line tools will search the SDK for system headers by default. However, some software may fail to build correctly against the SDK and require macOS headers to be installed in the base system under /usr/include. If you are the maintainer of such software, we encourage you to update your project to work with the SDK or file a bug...

Answer : There is format problem in patch file. To fixthe path file: Open your patch file in notepad++ then enter these two menus: Encoding/Convert to UTF-8 Edit/EOL conversion/Unix (LF) Run: git apply --reject --whitespace=fix your_patch.patch Updated You might have a file which was not encoded to UTF-8. To fix that on *nix systems (MacOS, Linux etc.) iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 fix.patch -o fix_utf8.patch For windows you can try: Get-Content .\fix.patch | Set-Content -Encoding utf8 fix_utf8.patch If your file may already have color codes in it you can try: git apply --reject --whitespace myfile.patch Passing in color param seems to fix the problem. git diff HEAD --color=never > fix.patch And now check returns no error message. git apply fix.patch --check Changing my .gitconfig file from [color] ui = always change to always [color] ui = auto Fixed my problem so I do not have to pass color option when diffing to patch file. UPDATE: ...