Questions tagged [cmake]
Questions specific for CMake build tool.
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building Debian package from Buster fails on Bookworm
I need to use older version of linphone on Debian 12.
The version in bookworm is 4.4.10-3, and I actually need 3.12.0, which is available in Buster.
On my bookworm build machine, I changed the sources,...
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How can I fix CMake installation?
I have CMake 3.16 on my remote machine which runs Ubuntu 20.
However, I am unable to use it from command line:
user_name@192:~$ sudo apt install cmake
[sudo] password for user_name:
Reading package ...
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When using CMake and g++, the compiler output does not have any coloring or formatting
I'm using Fedora 38 (KDE, wayland), g++ 13.1.1, CMake 3.26.4, and GNU Make 4.4.
My problem is as follows:
When running g++ directly, the output (e.g. errors, warnings, ...) is nicely formatted, using ...
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cmake: Why is CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P empty on Apple Silicon macOS?
A promise of cmake is its cross-platform compatibility. So why does the following code does not print any value for CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P on Apple Silicon macOS?
File sizeofvoid.cmake:
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Convention to install files to /etc/ as non-root?
This question possibly has relevance in both Unix & Linux and Stack Overflow; I'm posting at Unix & Linux first, because I think I'd like to understand the issue from the perspective of Unix/...
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Cmake complaining about a required package was not found
I'm building a little flutter application to reproduce sound. So, I'm using this package that has linux support: https://github.com/bluefireteam/audioplayers
Everything compiled ok before adding this ...
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Unable to run cmake with headers!
I am trying to follow the first step from this tutorial: Tutorial STEP1
I am having an issue with the third exercise there. We need to create a .h file in the build directory, but the .cxx "c++&...
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Cmake on Linux Lite 3.6
I am trying to build "Transmission" on my machine with Linux Lite v3.6, but cmake is needed. Successfully installed it with sudo apt install cmake, but it installed only cmake 3.5.1. And ...
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How to install cmake on Astra Linux 4.7?
How to install cmake (also pbuilder, cowbuilder) on Astra Linux ? Details here:
user@baikal:~$ apt policy cmake
N: Unable to locate package cmake
user@baikal:~$ sudo astra-ce status
[sudo] password ...
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How to install ttyd from source on Fedora?
I'm trying to compile ttyd that requires libwebsockets on Fedora. My system has an outdated version of ttyd and I need a newer one to run vhs tool.
Both projects use CMake, I was able to compile and ...
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How to use Imlib2 in a Cmake project?
I have a Cmake project on arch linux and I need to use Imlib2. However, the cmake cannot find the package (see attached screenshot). Usually, this is resolved by installing the dev version of the ...
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What does `file INSTALL cannot copy file <file-in> to <file-out>: Success.` mean`
Sometimes when I install source packages to a directory shared between users, I get this funny message:
$ make install
Consolidate compiler generated dependencies of target sick-lms5xx
[100%] Built ...
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How do I enable cmake give me the compilation output one screenful at a time instead of just giving me the dump at end
I am running cmake version 3.23.2 on Debian teseting. If I put -
$cmake .
It would generate the output but that's too fast for me to read. If I do something like -
cmake . > cmake-build.txt
that ...
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What option provide to CMake to demangle stackframe output?
To print the stackframe this method is used. But it prints mostly executable name with addresses.
0 ./fish(+0xa307b) [0x556c9198c07b]
1 ./fish(+0xb0cf2) [0x556c91999cf2]
2 ./fish(+0xb218a) [...
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binaries not executable by user (Permission denied) after cmake install / make install to /usr/local/bin
After I install any project on my Debian (Buster) machine with sudo cmake install or sudo make install command, the binary gets placed inside /usr/local/bin but although the PATH variable is set ...
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Permission denied error when using make all-recursive?
I am using autotools and GNU make to build a C library, there is a line
all: config.h
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) all-recursive
In the Makefile, and I get an error compiling
make all-recursive
make: ...
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Modifying compiler options when building RPMS that use cmake
I'm building a package on Rocky 8 that works fine on Fedora 35. When I tried to compile it on Rocky 8 using rpmbuild -ba, I got the error: relocation xxxxx can not be used when making a shared object; ...
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cmake unable to find CC
I am newbie in Linux, I am using WSL ubuntu 20.04. I am trying to build a project using cmake file.
I am getting following error:-
CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/...
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Using checkinstall in place of sudo cmake?
I've been trying to compile digikam and as part of that process needed to compile jasper. Jasper developers use cmake, I wanted to make a .deb package -- in fact was trying to learn how to make a ...
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CMake error "Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5QuickControls2""
I'm trying to build the vvave music player on Debian11/KDE but running cmake .. fails - it shows this error:
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:23 (project):
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Add multiple options in cmake flag in a shell script and run the shell script
I want to run a set of commands from a bash script. How ever I don't know how to put the quotation in a bash script.
The following is the bash script which I want to run, how ever in the cmake -...
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Boost continually fails to download while using cmake for ethminer
I've been stuck with this since this morning. Basically I ran into an issue with this cmake .. -DETHASHCUDA=ON -DETHASHCL=OFF command while following this https://medium.com/coinmonks/eth-x-nvidia-x-...
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Weird linking issue with libldap using cmake
I am trying to build SimGear from the FlightGear project using the download_an_compile.sh script (which uses CMake to build the binaries). The build went fine so far, but when the script tried linking ...
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Installation of libglib2.0-dev on Fedora
Recently, I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora. Now, I would like to run the Fedora equivalent to the Ubuntu command
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
Because when I cmake a project (in particular lcm 1....
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What is the reason for error in CMake?
I am running the following script to change the name by which I call my GROMACS command from gmx to gmx_196g. The script employs CMake:
cd gromacs-2019.6/build_stage3/
suffix=196g
install_path=/home/...
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How to install vala app menu on fedora?
I browsed very much on internet and I followed This website .
And I got errors and warnings .
CMake Warning:
No source or binary directory provided. Both will be assumed to be the
same as the ...
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"make" not looking for files in /usr/local/
I'm trying to build a package from source (ROCm) (Distro:Solus): libnuma isn't available so I had to build it from source. And once I installed it, even though the files are in /usr/local, make still ...
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colcon can not find my package
I have been writing some ROS2 code in C++ using colcon on Ubuntu 20.04, all has been working fine, up until now. colcon all of a sudden started complaining that it couldn't find my packages. When I ...
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Error #2 when trying to install ECM (Extra Cmake Modules)
I am trying to install extra-cmake-modules from source, and then I get an error after executing make command:
Extension error:
Could not import extension ecm (exception: No module named '...
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C++ linking error: 'libcairo.so: undefined reference to FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates'
I'm trying to build a C++ project via CLion and have been unable to get past this error in the linking process:
/lib/../lib64/libcairo.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates'
I'm ...
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cmake and Installing opencv 4.x on Linux Debian 10 with Kernel 4.19.x
I am finding this info. online for building OpenCV 4.x on their homepage. I have not found a way to compile the samples or examples. Is it possible with cmake to install examples from the OpenCV 4.x ...
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Error while building OBS from source code | CentOS 8
I've a problem with OBS source code, because it isn't detecting ffmpeg who's installed on my computer.
[mlodybukk@localhost build]$ cmake -DUNIX_STRUCTURE=0 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${HOME}/obs-...
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Is there a way to make vim run the "make" command in another terminal window?
I mainly use vim as an editor for C/C++ programming. Unfortunately, I'm not quite satisfied with the way my build process works. I know that it's possible to type in (or map to a key) :make to run the ...
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Installing KDE4 development files in 2020
I want to compile the Oxygen-transparent project which requires KDE4. I've tried building and installing the KDELibs 4 Support package , but still there's no kde4-config in my system.
Here's the ...
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Undefined reference to SDL functions in c for Conways Game of Life
I'm writing GameOfLife game in c with SDL2 but while compiling the files with CMake, it appears as an undefined reference to SDL functions:
What can be the problem and how can I fix it?
my ...
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Gmake on FreeBSD: exec: “clang”: executable file not found in $PATH [closed]
I'm trying to install Filebeat (elasticsearch log shipping) on PfSense 2.4.5. I follow the instruction from: https://blog.securitybits.io/2019/12/beats-7.5.0-on-pfsense-2.4.4/ At the make step, I got ...
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makefile error "No rule to make target" how to solve it?
what's wrong with my makefile?
CC = gcc
OBJS = main.o map.o extended_map.o election.o utilities.o
EXEC = election
DEBUG_FLAG = -DNDEBUG
COMP_FLAG = -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic-errors -Werror
$(EXEC) : $...
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How friendly is checkinstall with CMake rather than autotools?
It's been recommended to me to use the checkinstall mechanism to install artifacts I build from source. But - the example involves GNU autotools (./configure) while I use CMake. How "friendly" is ...
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Why is there `No CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER could be found.` and how to solve?
I just installed cmake but I'm getting compiler not found error.
In trying to build https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools on a new Kubuntu installation, running cmake .. from the tools/build ...
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Is there a way to make cmakelists.txt more verbose for compilation
Many a times while compiling some binary or library, I feel a need to have much verbose output of the build/compilation. Is there a flag or something I can write in the cmakelists.txt so I get much ...
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KF5 Init package in Kubuntu
I'm trying to install Konsole from source but after running 'CMake' I got the following error :
Could NOT find KF5Init (missing: KF5Init_DIR)
Could NOT find KF5Init: found neither KF5InitConfig.cmake ...
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CMAKE missing: X11_EXECUTABLE)
I'm trying to compile a program using CMAKE, but it requires X11 to be installed. I have X11 installed on my system. When I run apt-file find x11.so I get the output:
aeolus: /usr/lib/aeolus/...
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some troubles on installing deja-dup from source code
(Learning how to install programs on linux...)
deja-dup source code can be downloaded on its GitHub repo. There is a makefile con the package. Once into the folder I run:
santi@eoan:~/deja-dup$ make
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How to check if my ARM64 board supports 32 bit binary compilation? (error: unrecognized command line option ‘-m32’)
I have a ARM virtual machine on AWS with Ubuntu18.04 installed.
dpkg & uname commands show this,
$ dpkg --print-architecture
arm64
$ uname -m
aarch64
I've got a third-party precompiled static ...
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Passing options to cmake in bash script
I am trying to write a script that will build multiple cppUtes lib.a files for different sanitizers with a bash script.
When trying to pass the compiler flags as variables to cmake I am unable to ...
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Ubuntu sys/byteorder.h & sys/endian.h missing, while building MySQL Connector/C++
Bear in mind that I'm a beginner when it comes to building from source (tried a few times, almost always failed).
I'm trying to build the MySQL Connector/C++ 8 for my Raspberry Pi 3b running Ubuntu 19....
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Is it possible to make -jN dynamic based on CPU load?
For example, would it not be beneficial to have -jN > nrcpus during the configure phase, where CPU load is low? Then have -jN = nrcpus during compilation, where load should be evenly distributed to ...
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Installing gdcm on CentOS
I am using CentOS 7.
I went to the gdcm source page and the only Linux distros that it had a link for were Debian and Ubuntu. I downloaded, and unzipped, GDCM-$VERSION-Linux.tar.gz. I then read ...
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Why is this make not working?
I am attempting to install CERN's root software and I am on the final step of installation. The steps im taking are these.
1) Get the sources of the latest ROOT (see above)
2) Type the build ...
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CMake Error: The source directory does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt
I have found similar discussions from google but didn't work for me. I want to use a bioinformatics package called pompd. At the first use, the program will automatically compile another application ...
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