With thanks to alpine. https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/community/gsoap/musl-fixes.patch The first patch I think should not be necessary, but is because the same source file defines _GNU_SOURCE if gnu-linux and !defined(_GNU_SOURCE) (go read the code, it's the first two places _GNU_SOURCE is used in gsoap/stdsoap2.cpp). I don't know why, but it seems wrong to me. EDIT: Turns out (I was told this) that gcc will define _GNU_SOURCE automatically for C++ files. The first patch is definitely necessary. --- ./gsoap/stdsoap2.cpp.orig +++ ./gsoap/stdsoap2.cpp @@ -18691,7 +18691,7 @@ { #ifndef WIN32 # ifdef HAVE_STRERROR_R -# if defined(_GNU_SOURCE) && !defined(__ANDROID__) +# if defined(_GNU_SOURCE) && !defined(__ANDROID__) && defined(__GLIBC__) return strerror_r(err, soap->msgbuf, sizeof(soap->msgbuf)); /* GNU-specific */ # else strerror_r(err, soap->msgbuf, sizeof(soap->msgbuf)); /* XSI-compliant */ --- ./gsoap/stdsoap2.h.orig +++ ./gsoap/stdsoap2.h @@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ # endif #elif defined(SOCKLEN_T) # define SOAP_SOCKLEN_T SOCKLEN_T -#elif defined(__socklen_t_defined) || defined(_SOCKLEN_T) || defined(CYGWIN) || defined(FREEBSD) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(OPENBSD) || defined(__QNX__) || defined(QNX) || defined(OS390) || defined(__ANDROID__) || defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) +#elif defined(__socklen_t_defined) || defined(_SOCKLEN_T) || defined(CYGWIN) || defined(FREEBSD) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(OPENBSD) || defined(__QNX__) || defined(QNX) || defined(OS390) || defined(__ANDROID__) || defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) || defined (LINUX) # define SOAP_SOCKLEN_T socklen_t #elif defined(IRIX) || defined(WIN32) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(SUN_OS) || defined(OPENSERVER) || defined(TRU64) || defined(VXWORKS) # define SOAP_SOCKLEN_T int