How to initialize a pointer to a struct in C?

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Given this struct:

struct PipeShm
{
    int init;
    int flag;
    sem_t *mutex;
    char * ptr1;
    char * ptr2;
    int status1;
    int status2;
    int semaphoreFlag;

};

That works fine:

static struct PipeShm myPipe = { .init = 0 , .flag = FALSE , .mutex = NULL , 
        .ptr1 = NULL , .ptr2 = NULL , .status1 = -10 , .status2 = -10 , 
        .semaphoreFlag = FALSE };

But when I declare static struct PipeShm * myPipe , that doesn't work , I'm assuming that I'd need to initialize with the operator ->, but how?

static struct PipeShm * myPipe = {.init = 0 , .flag = FALSE , .mutex = NULL , 
        .ptr1 = NULL , .ptr2 = NULL , .status1 = -10 , .status2 = -10 , 
        .semaphoreFlag = FALSE };

Is it possible to declare a pointer to a struct and use initialization with it?

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