[CMake] Compiling binaries with cmake -- help

Crest Christopher crestchristopher at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 00:39:36 EDT 2016


I have the dependencies installed but I'm still getting an error; that 
there is an error in the configuration files and that the project may be 
invalid ?

> Nicholas Braden <mailto:nicholas11braden at gmail.com>
> Thursday, June 23, 2016 8:37 AM
> Yep, if you have all the dependencies it should just work as I
> described in a previous message.
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Crest Christopher
> Crest Christopher <mailto:crestchristopher at gmail.com>
> Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:20 AM
> I'll get the Python sipconfig module installed, then I hope we can 
> continue with getting it compiled ?
>
>
> Nicholas Braden <mailto:nicholas11braden at gmail.com>
> Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:15 AM
> Yes, many projects do not include their dependencies and require you
> to obtain them yourself. In this case it looks like you need the
> Python sipconfig module installed.
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Crest Christopher
> Crest Christopher <mailto:crestchristopher at gmail.com>
> Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:10 AM
> It can work, but it's missing dependencies ?
>
>
> Nicholas Braden <mailto:nicholas11braden at gmail.com>
> Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:08 AM
> It looks like the instructions are there in the README. I tried
> building on my system but I'm missing some dependencies (e.g. at some
> point it finds my Python 3 installation and tries to run some code but
> fails due to a missing sipconfig module, which I am not familiar
> with).
>
> Generally, to build a project that uses CMake, create an empty
> directory for the build and open a terminal in it, then run CMake with
> the path to the directory containing CMakeLists.txt and optionally
> specify the generator to use if the default is not the one you want.
> Then, if it completes without errors, you can use "cmake --build ." to
> build it and "cmake --build . --target install" to install it, even if
> you used an IDE generator.
>
> As for the project dependencies, you are own your own to get those.
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Crest Christopher

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