I need to use blitz++ 0.10 library in vs2012. Unfortunately, I'm new to c++ and don't have enough experience to know how should I build this library.
Till now, I have been using CMake to build libraries (e.g., VTK). But in case of blitz, as to why there is no "CMakeLists.txt" file, I don't know what should do.
I was wondering If someone could help me in this way (step by step).
(Win 7, 64bit, VS2012)
Here is how I tried. It's fairly simple. Worked for me
Follow the steps -
Download blitz++ from https://github.com/blitzpp/blitz (It will download a zip file)
Unzip the file and save it into a folder.
Install visual studio 2019(the version i used to check)
Install cmake.(ADD it's path to system variable during installation)
Open Powershell with admin priviledge(necessary)
go to directory where you unzipped the blitz++ (You have to go into the directory where cmakelist.txt file is)
Run sequentially
md build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --build . --target install
You will have a blitz folder in program files(x86). include the include lib and include folder in your project properties. Done....
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I am trying to build a program on MacOS and that program requires Eigen version <= 3.3.7 but mine has 3.3.8 with brew install eigen
I went to Eigen website but 3.3.7 source is no longer available anymore.
Any workaround?
Thanks a lot!
Updates: thanks a lot but I am still very confused with how to proceed. Below is the information of the installation details and directory info.
The directory of the program source code that I want to build look like:
program
cmake
Cmakelist.txt
build
the program has the following instructions:
Create the build directory in the source tree root
mkdir build
Configure cmake, from the build directory, passing the Shogun source root as an argument. It is recommended to use any of CMake GUIs (e.g. replace cmake .. with ccmake ..), in particular, if you feel unsure about possible parameters and configurations. Note that all cmake options read as -DOPTION=VALUE.
cd build
cmake [options] ..
Compile
make
Install (prepend sudo if installing system-wide), and you are done.
make install
Sometimes you might need to clean up your build (e.g. in case of some major changes). First, try
make clean
Then I have downloaded eigen3.3.7, where the INSTALL file is as following. How should I proceed?
Method 1. Installing without using CMake
****************************************
You can use right away the headers in the Eigen/ subdirectory. In order
to install, just copy this Eigen/ subdirectory to your favorite location.
If you also want the unsupported features, copy the unsupported/
subdirectory too.
Method 2. Installing using CMake
********************************
Let's call this directory 'source_dir' (where this INSTALL file is).
Before starting, create another directory which we will call 'build_dir'.
Do:
cd build_dir
cmake source_dir
make install
You can install Eigen 3.3.7 by compiling the source code(available here).
I was trying to build SFML in order to start developing 2d-games in c++. I put the source-code directory inside C: (the directory itself is called 'SFML'). while trying to generate .cbp files using CMake, I ran into an error:
"The source directory "C:/SFML" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt"
It seems like there is a missing file that CMake didn't create.
I am using Cmake 3.10.1, the installation file can be found in https://cmake.org/download/ under the title:"Windows win32-x86 Installer".
I tried to build SFML 2.4.2, using the generator of Codeblocks - MinGW makefiles. The version of codeblocks used is: codeblocks-16.01mingw-setup.exe, found in http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26
Did someone encounter the same problem before and knows how to overcome it? If not -
Is there an already-built, ready to use, libray of this version? (2.4.2)
If not.. do you know about a version of SFML that is usable in visual studio 2017?
And another question (That is the last one, I promise...) - maybe you can recommend me about another library for c++, that is usable to develop 2d-games?
edt:
note: I am completely new to all this building thing
the containments of SFML:
maybe it's the binary version?
lib contains some static libraries, bin contains some .dll s
You probably downloaded something wrong or potentially extracted the SFML source into a sub folder or something like that.
Since you've mentioned Visual Studio: SFML is 100% compatible with Visual Studio and you can build it from source any time without having to worry about dependencies (everything included in the repository).
The steps to compile are pretty easy. I'd recommend you install Git to clone the latest source from the SFML repository. In addition you'll need CMake, which you obviously got already.
Open a Command Prompt and change your directory to C:\SFML.
Clone the official repository using Git: git clone https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git source (note the trailing .)
Wait for the source to be checked out to the source sub directory.
Create a new directory called build: md build && cd build
Now invoke CMake, pointing to the source directory and also defining your install path: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/SFML ../source
Build and install a debug build of SFML: cmake --build . --target install --config debug
Build and install a release build of SFML: cmake --build . --target install --config release
Alternatively you can just open the generated Visual Studio solution and build the INSTALL project on your own.
(You shouldn't have to define a build tool or anything; CMake should notice Visual Studio being installed and pick it up automatically.)
I have experienced this using cmake version 3.10 when using the -S command line option. On cmake version 3.15.4 it behaves as expected - so if you update cmake then it might just work.
Note that the -S command line option was not supported before version 3.13:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.13/release/3.13.html#command-line
Normally cmake is called from a "build" subdirectory of a project root, the project root contains CMakelists.txt. So you would create a "build" directory, change to it, and submit "cmake ..". This would pull in CMakelists.txt from the project root, and use the "build" subdirectory that you are in as the build directory. We say "build", what it actually does is generate makefiles which can then used by the "native" build system (e.g. "make" or Visual Studio) to perform the actual compilation and linking. This arrangement is not always convenient, hence the introduction of the -S and -B command line options.
I am trying to setup OpenCV for Visual Studio 2015, x64, in windows.
I have followed this guide to get OpenCV up and running, however after the CMake Part, i am not sure if everything has gone well.
1- my build file does not contain any lib folder
2- i am confused as where should i set the environment variable for it
3- I assume in visual studio i have to set path for the libraries, but i
don't see any in my build
4- my include folder has a weird install file
pic1: here is a picture of my OpenCV file that cMake built
bin folder is empty
pic2:include folder contents
CMake does not build your library. It sets your build environment, such as designating the install directory for the OpenCV.
So you need to actually build your OpenCV library, then you'll have your include and lib files at the place you've designated as the install directory (cmake_install_prefix in the CMake option).
If you've done your CMake step successfully, you can build your OpenCV by building ALL_BUILD project in your Visual Studio project explorer, and building INSTALL project after that.
I am using the ITPP library (IT++ library) for one of my projects. For using the eigen_sym() function of this library, it asks for installing the LAPACK. I tried the direct prebuilt libraries for Windows but still get the error. Finally on the following site:
http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-for-windows/lapack/#libraries
I found a solution under "Build Instructions to create LAPACK and LAPACKE 3.5.0 dlls for Windows with MinGW" that might work. I did steps 1 to 5 but got stuck 6 onwards.
My destination of the cmake build is E:/LAPACK
I got an error while in the cmd prompt while entering:
cd E:/LAPACK 3.5.0 >Enter
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe >Enter
i'm getting
mingw32-make.exe> No targets specified and no make file found. Stop.
Can someone explain the step 6 onwards in detail and tell me where i'm going wrong?
I finally want to get the .dll and .lib files.
I was able to build LAPACK 3.5 for windows using mingw and pretty much the build guide from the LAPACK page. Using the following steps
Download lapack.tgz from here http://netlib.org/lapack/lapack.tgz
Extract to a folder. I used 7zip file manager to extract the tarball to x:/Other/test
Install mingw32. I used this: http://www.mingw.org/download/installer and I selected and installed mingw32-developer-toolkit + mingw32-base + mingw32-gfortran + mingw32-gcc-g++ + msys-base
Open a command prompt
Append mingw to your path
path=C:/Mingw/bin;%PATH%
change directory to the location you extracted lapack: For me this was X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0 so the command I typed was the following (your path will be different):
C:\Users\jdrescher>x:
X:>cd Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0>
make a folder for your build. I used build
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0>mkdir build
then change directory to the build folder
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0>cd build
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0\build>
Now configure with CMake
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0\build>cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -D CMAKE_GNUtoMS=ON ..
Now use gnu make to build LAPACK
X:\Other\Test\lapack-3.5.0\build>c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe
Note: This step will take several minutes.
After the above steps completed 100% with no errors, I have the following dlls in the build\bin folder: libblas.dll, liblapack.dll, libtmglib.dll
Also the following libraries, and exp files in the build\lib folder: libblas.exp, libblas.lib, liblapack.exp, liblapack.lib, libtmglib.exp and libtmglib.lib.
I am trying to use CMake in order to compile opencv.
I am reading the tutorial but can't understand what is CMakeLists files and how is it connected to the gui of CMake?
Also couldn't understand what are makefiles, are they the same is CMakeLists?
And which file is it which I in the end open with visual-studio?
I don't know about Windows (never used it), but on a Linux system you just have to create a build directory (in the top source directory)
mkdir build-dir
go inside it
cd build-dir
then run cmake and point to the parent directory
cmake ..
and finally run make
make
Notice that make and cmake are different programs. cmake is a Makefile generator, and the make utility is governed by a Makefile textual file. See cmake & make wikipedia pages.
NB: On Windows, cmake might operate so could need to be used differently. You'll need to read the documentation (like I did for Linux)
CMake takes a CMakeList file, and outputs it to a platform-specific build format, e.g. a Makefile, Visual Studio, etc.
You run CMake on the CMakeList first. If you're on Visual Studio, you can then load the output project/solution.
Yes, cmake and make are different programs. cmake is (on Linux) a Makefile generator (and Makefile-s are the files driving the make utility). There are other Makefile generators (in particular configure and autoconf etc...). And you can find other build automation programs (e.g. ninja).
CMake (Cross platform make) is a build system generator. It doesn't build your source, instead, generates what a build system needs: the build scripts. Doing so you don't need to write or maintain platform specific build files. CMake uses relatively high level CMake language which usually written in CMakeLists.txt files. Your general workflow when consuming third party libraries usually boils down the following commands:
cmake -S thelibrary -B build
cmake --build build
cmake --install build
The first line known as configuration step, this generates the build files on your system. -S(ource) is the library source, and -B(uild) folder. CMake falls back to generate build according to your system. it will be MSBuild on Windows, GNU Makefiles on Linux. You can specify the build using -G(enerator) paramater, like:
cmake -G Ninja -S libSource -B build
end of the this step, generates build scripts, like Makefile, *.sln files etc. on build directory.
The second line invokes the actual build command, it's like invoking make on the build folder.
The third line install the library. If you're on Windows, you can quickly open generated project by, cmake --open build.
Now you can use the installed library on your project with configured by CMake, writing your own CMakeLists.txt file. To do so, you'll need to create a your target and find the package you installed using find_package command, which will export the library target names, and link them against your own target.
Cmake from Windows terminal:
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release
./Release/main.exe
Regarding CMake 3.13.3, platform Windows, and IDE Visual Studio 2017, I suggest this guide. In brief I suggest:
1. Download cmake > unzip it > execute it.
2. As example download GLFW > unzip it > create inside folder Build.
3. In cmake Browse "Source" > Browse "Build" > Configure and Generate.
4. In Visual Studio 2017 Build your Solution.
5. Get the binaries.
Regards.