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Re: [IMPORANT] Migration to cmake

 

Hi Christian,

I successfully compiled Yade using cmake on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 
release 6.2 (Santiago) after several days of trail and error ;-)

However, I never had this problem. It seems the error is during runtime, 
right?

Klaus

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:48:52 PM Christian Jakob wrote:
> I successfully compiled yade (2012-07-04.git-cc040a1) with cmake. As
> Anton said cmake needs a new library (libxi-dev on debian squeeze). I
> edited the installation wiki [1] for debian. Please check if in ubuntu
> the needed library has the same name and update the wiki for ubuntu
> installation.
> 
> [1] https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Installation_of_yade_on_debian_or_kubuntu
> 
> When I try to run executable from bin or bins folder I get this message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File
> "/home/me/YADE/YADEgit20120704-cmake/bins/yade-2012-07-04.git-cc040a1",
> line 22, in <module>
>      raise RuntimeError('Neither non-debug nor debug build found!
> ('+nonDebugLibDir+'/py/yade/__init__.py,
> '+debugLibDir+'/py/yade/__init__.py)')
> RuntimeError: Neither non-debug nor debug build found!
> (./lib/yade-2012-07-04.git-cc040a1/py/yade/__init__.py,
> ./lib/yade-2012-07-04.git-cc040a1/dbg/py/yade/__init__.py)
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> BTW, do we have cmake experience from users of rpm-based systems?
> 
> Zitat von Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Dear users and developers,
> > 
> > if you looked after my last commits, you have probably payed attention
> > on changes in cmake-build. Cmake is a cross-platform, open-source system
> > widely used today for many open-source projects to handle build-process.
> > 
> > I am going to replace scons build-system, which is used in yade last
> > several years. The reason is to escape complicated and "hacked"
> > style of SConstruct-files in the project, which is hard to maintain.
> > 
> > CMake should prolong the life of yade without any changes from the
> > "build-side".
> > Also we will hopefully get better portability of the program on
> > different platforms.
> > 
> > I want to ask everybody to test precisely the new build-system before we
> > drop scons-files.
> > 
> > Cmake is working differently, other than scons. It builds its files
> > not in the same
> > folder, where is the source. So, you have to create a separate
> > "build-place" for you. Like in scons, you should point the place, where
> > the files will be installed.
> > 
> > 1. Create a build place (a folder)
> > 
> > 2. go into that folder
> > 
> > 3. run in command line:
> >     cmake -DINSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/installfolder /path/to/sources
> > 
> > 4. Read, what is the written at the end of configure-process. You will
> > see there,
> > 
> >     which yade-modules are enabled and disabled.
> >     If you want to enable/disable some modules, you should add to
> > 
> > cmake command
> > 
> >     line the following variables:
> >     -DENABLE_GUI=ON    (or OFF)
> >     -DENABLE_VTK=ON    (or OFF)
> >     -DENABLE_OPENMP=ON    (or OFF)
> >     -DENABLE_GTS=ON    (or OFF)
> >     -DENABLE_GL2PS=ON    (or OFF)
> >     
> >      All modules are ON by default. But if you do not have necessary
> > 
> > packages in your
> > 
> >      system, some of them will be disabled by CMAKE. You will get a
> > 
> > notice about that.
> > 
> >      Other parameters:
> >      -DDEBUG=ON (OFF by default)   create debug-build
> >      -DSUFFIX=MYVERSION  (by default - git revision)  create suffix
> >      -DNOSUFFIX=ON (OFF by default)  do not create suffix for yade
> > 
> > (like yade-git-1234565)
> > 
> >      -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON (OFF by default)  show an additional
> > 
> > info during build
> > 
> > 5. Type in command line
> > 
> >     make
> >     
> >     And wait, when the process is finished. Alternatively you can
> > 
> > indicate how much cores,
> > 
> >     you want to use. For example:
> >     make -j4
> >     
> >     Please, pay attention, yade requires approximately 2GB RAM/core.
> > 
> > 6. Install:
> >     make install
> > 
> > For GUI-option on Debian/Ubuntu-systems, please install 2 additional
> > packages:
> > sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev libxi-dev
> > 
> > I have disabled chunkSize option for the moment. Yade has always
> > problems with a huge consumption
> > of RAM (especially on build-servers) during the compilation.
> > 
> > I would like to ask everybody to test it and give a feedback.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > Anton
> > 
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