Valgrind for macOS SIerra on i7 MacBook Air

Question

How can I get Valgrind working on my mac? Mac specs: mid-2012 11" 2GHz i7 MacBook Air with macOS Sierra 10.12.5. FWIW, brew install valgrind fails to build, as well as these steps from Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way" ex4:

# 1) Download it (use wget if you dont have curl)
curl -O http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2

# use md5sum to make sure it matches the one on the site
md5sum valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2

# 2) Unpack it.
tar -xjvf valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2

# cd into the newly created directory
cd valgrind-3.12.0

# 3) configure it
./configure

# 4) make it
make

# 5) install it (need root)
sudo make install

Valgrind also fails after modifying the file valgrind-3.12.0/coregrind/m_main.c line 4061 from:
#if defined(VGO_darwin) && DARWIN_VERS == DARWIN_10_10
to:
#if defined(VGO_darwin)
(per http://valgrind.10908.n7.nabble.com/Unable-to-compile-on-Mac-OS-X-10-11-td57237.html)
...I was able to complete an installation of Valgrind (prior to changing m_main.c the make error'd out) but unfortunately, now the simple test recommended in the README file for verifying the install is failing:

See if it works. Try "valgrind ls -l". Either this works, or it bombs out with some complaint.

The complaint:

$  valgrind ls -l
valgrind: mmap-FIXED(0x0, 253952) failed in UME (load_segment1) with error 12 (Cannot allocate memory).

I'm not sure what exactly this means, so it would be great if someone could help parse the "complaint" and suggest a means to get a successful install of or alternative to Valgrind on macOS Sierra.

FWIW: per Valgrind's website announcement:

20 October 2016: valgrind-3.12.0 is available. This release supports: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, X86/MacOSX 10.10 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.10. There is also preliminary support for X86/MacOSX 10.11/12, and AMD64/MacOSX 10.11/12. For more details see the release notes.

...and release notes:

Preliminary support for MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) has been added.

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Per this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43431715/5225057 I have also tried the following,

svn checkout -r 16297 svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk
cd trunk
curl https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=105218 > patch.txt
svn patch patch.txt
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

and am left with:

valgrind: mmap-FIXED(0x0, 253952) failed in UME (load_segment1) with error 12 (Cannot allocate memory).

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UPDATE per thiagoveloso's answer:

$  man port
$  port version
Version: 2.4.1
$  sudo port install valgrind
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for valgrind
--->  Fetching archive for valgrind
--->  Attempting to fetch valgrind-3.12.0_0.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/valgrind
--->  Attempting to fetch valgrind-3.12.0_0.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/valgrind
--->  Attempting to fetch valgrind-3.12.0_0.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/valgrind
--->  Fetching distfiles for valgrind
--->  Attempting to fetch valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/valgrind
--->  Attempting to fetch valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 from https://distfiles.macports.org/valgrind
--->  Verifying checksums for valgrind                                               
--->  Extracting valgrind
--->  Applying patches to valgrind
--->  Configuring valgrind
--->  Building valgrind
--->  Staging valgrind into destroot
--->  Installing valgrind @3.12.0_0
--->  Activating valgrind @3.12.0_0
--->  Cleaning valgrind
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.
$  valgrind --version
valgrind-3.12.0
$  valgrind ls -l
valgrind: mmap-FIXED(0x0, 253952) failed in UME (load_segment1) with error 12 (Cannot allocate memory).

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UPDATE:
per http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html valgrind 3.13.0 has improved support for macOS 10.12... hopefully this will be a workable solution.

Answer 1

Are you stuck to Homebrew? Otherwise you can install Macports and just type:

$ sudo port install valgrind

"Preliminary" support for macOS 10.12 has been added in version 3.12.0: Valgrind.org

Answer 2

With the June 15, 2017 release of valgrind 3.13.0, I am able to install and make use of valgrind on macOS Sierra (10.12.5). As a base case, I can successfully evaluate a very basic valgrind ls -l. I will be continuing to evaluate this build of valgrind as I complete the exercises in ZS's LCTHW.

Of note, I installed with Homebrew and have not (yet) tested installation with MacPorts or per a curl download, md5 checksum, tar unpacking, ./configure, make and make install.

per http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html:

Release 3.13.0 (15 June 2017) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3.13.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual collection of bug fixes.

This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris and AMD64/MacOSX 10.12.

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UPDATE Valgrind is unsupported thus far on macOS High Sierra (up through 10.13.3)