I have a Jamroot file which looks a bit like this;
project foo ;
alias bar ./src/path/to/bar//bar
build-project bar ;
Always gives the annoying error
error: Unable to find file or target named
error: '/foo//bar/'
error: referred from project at
error: '.'
Running with;
bjam --debug-building
building project Jamfile</home/chris/code/foo> ('object(project-target)#163') with
{.. as above ...}
No help at all.
If I change directory into the folder and type bjam, that part of the project builds perfectly.
As a workaround I have a script that does this in all the folders, but I would love to know why the 'proper' way doesn't work.
I'm using the following version of bjam
bjam --version
Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
Boost.Jam 03.1.16
Many thanks
I have discovered that I don't actually need to do this; simply listing the sub projects as aliases in the Jamroot is enough to get bjam to build them.
So the build-project steps are unneeded and wrong.
I also found this from Boost build reference page;
build-project; Cause some other project to be built. This rule takes a single parameter—a directory name relative to the containing Jamfile. When the containing Jamfile is built, the project located at that directory will be built as well. At the moment, the parameter to this rule should be a directory name. Project ID or general target references are not allowed." (my highlighting)
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I am trying to compile this project: https://github.com/computationalpathologygroup/ASAP.git from source.
Pugixml is a dependency
I have built pugixml from source and set PugiXML_DIR and PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR And it still gives me error: "CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND."
Things I have tried:
I am doing this on windows, using cmake 3.14 and visual studio 2017.
I have successfully built pugixml from source and included the .lib file as well
I have tried including and excluding combinations of PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR, PUGIXML_LIBRARY, PugiXML_DIR.
This is the error I get:
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
cpp/ASAP/annotation/PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory
/cpp/ASAP/annotation
cpp/ASAP/multiresolutionimageinterface/PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory cpp/ASAP/multiresolutionimageinterface
Other information: setting PugiXML_DIR is mandatory, and the cmake looks for a file named "pugixml-config.cmake" in that directory. And the config cmake file is supposed to point to compiled lib file. But when it wasn't able to find, I simply copied the lib file I compiled to the location pugixml-config.cmake was pointing.
In ASAP versions before 4.04.2019 they play dirty games with extracting include directory from the IMPORTED target. annotation/CMakeLists.txt:30:
get_target_property(PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR pugixml INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
In some cases this results in setting PUGIXML_INCLUDE_DIR variable to "-NOTFOUND", thus you got corresponded error message from CMake.
In commit 36d8bd75 they add FindPugiXML.cmake script, which handle find_package(PugiXML) call instead of configuration script shipped with PugiXML. In that find script they obtain include directory with find_path, which looks more natually:
find_path(PugiXML_INCLUDE_DIR pugixml.hpp)
Because in newer ASAP versions the configuration script (pugixml-config.cmake), shipped with PugiXML, is no longer used, one cannot hint about PugiXML location with PugiXML_DIR or PugiXML_ROOT. In case PugiXML is installed into non-system-default location, one may simply set PugiXML_INCLUDE_DIR variable to the PugiXML include directory.
I am trying to run some code from my university, but when I do "cmake .." inside "build" I get the following error:
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but
they are set to NOTFOUND. Please set them or make sure they are set
and tested correctly in the CMake files: iceutil_lib
linked by target "cppgui" in directory /Users/alej/Desktop/project1
linked by target "project1" in directory /Users/alej/Desktop/project1
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Any of my friends are getting errors, can you help me?
CMake tries to find all the libraries necessary to create the library or executable you are trying to build from the code from your university.
The found paths to those libraries are stored in special variables in CMake. By default, those variables carry the value <Library-Name>-NOTFOUND. This NOTFOUND flag is what makes CMake prompt the error message.
In general there are two possible reasons, why CMake can not find the library for you:
The library is not installed on your system
The library is installed somewhere CMake did not search for it. In this case you can help CMake by setting the library installation path into the respective CMake variables. To do this, open the file CMakeCache.txt with a text editor and search for ICEUTIL_LIB. Replace the blabla-NOTFOUND value with the actual (absolute) path of the library. There might be other variables with the ICEUTIL prefix. One of them might be named like ICEUTIL_HEADERS or ICEUTIL_INCLUDE_DIR. Replace the value of this one with the absolute path of where the .h files for ICEUTIL are found. If the include path is not set, CMake might run fine without errors, but later you will run into compiler errors saying include file not found.
I am trying to build a trivial proof of concept project using CMake, and I am rapidly getting tired of it - to the point that I think it may have been a better idea to handcraft my own damn Makefile.
I have a directory structure that looks something like this:
project:
/extproj
/src/file.cpp
/include/file1.h
My CMakeLists.txt file contains the following section, which I, having read the CMake documentation, rather naively believed, will be specifying the include directories for the project:
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES (include/
extproj/sdk/math/linearalg/
extproj/sdk/math/nonlinearsolvers/
)
I am trying to build it using the following command
COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${ALL_SOURCES}
Where ${ALL_SOURCES} is a list variable that contains all the C++ files I need to compile. I have verified that this variable contains the correct files.
I can't however, for the life of me, work out what on earth is being passed to the compiler as the include directories.
I searched online, and so a post that recommended using get_directory_properties. I tried that and of course CMake immediately failed to generate the Makefile and complained:
Unknown CMake command "get_directory_properties".
When I create a Makefile and run make on it, the compiler barfs immediately, with the error message:
/path/to/project/src/file1.cpp:1:10: fatal error: 'file1.h' file not
found
Is there ANY WAY, I can find out what on earth is being used as the include paths being passed to my compiler?
I believe the correct way to compile the source files is using
add_executable(executableName ${SRCS}. Then the directories added using include_directories(...) get passed to the compiler automatically.
If you are using a custom command to compile you need to change your CMakeLists.txt file.
set(MY_INCLUDE_DIRS_FLAGS "-Iinclude/ -Iextproj/sdk/math/linearalg/ -Iextproj/sdk/mat/nonlinearsolvers/")
set(MY_COMPILE_COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} ${MY_INCLUDE_DIRS_FLAGS} ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${ALL_SOURCES}
I'm trying (for a few days now) to build a DLL generated from C++ code with boost/python to be used by python. I am a Student from Germany and had mostly to do with Java until now (I wrote some basic OpenGL and gimp filter stuff before in C++). So pardon me in advance for bad english or C++ beginner mistakes. I mean, programming with Java really is a lot more comfortable in comparison to C++. But enough of the skirmish.
The error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: File "boost_python-vc110-mt-gd-1_53.lib" could not be openend
My presets:
-using MS Visual Studio 2012 (11.0)
-using boost_1_53_0
-using python2.7 (I heard 3.3 may cause some Problems)
What I did:
Installed python and added it to PATH. Then created a new empty project in VS and a class file "Test.cpp" with following content as described on the boost tutorial page:
char const* greet()
{
return "hello world";
}
#include <boost/python.hpp>
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(Test)
{
using namespace boost::python
def("greet", greet);
}
Then came the new part for me, in VS Project Properties:
Configuration Properties > General > Configurationtype > Dynamic Library (.dll)
C/C++ > General > Addition Includedirectories > C:[..]\boost_1_53_0
Linker > General > Additional Library Directories > C:[..]boost_1_53_0\stage\lib
From the error I am assuming i did something wrong with Linker or Include. I also changed the Linker > General > Additional Library Directories to boost_1_53_0\libs because i wasn't sure, but the same error occured. And yes, I correctly included python. I am also not sure if i have to put something else beside python into Linker > Input for boost.
Then I build boost with bjam with no options except msvc-11.0 to be sure to have everything i need (though I read that boost/python doesn't need an extra build) and still got the same error. Can someone help me? I would love to have a step by step description of what to do. I am really despairing of this.
Btw.: I had the same error as this guy a few days before Linker error LNK1104 with 'libboost_filesystem-vc100-mt-s-1_49.lib' then stopped working on it and as I started again I got my brand new error (I can't tell you how this happened).
Since it is looking for a static library, add BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB flag, go to VS properties -> Preprocessor -> Processor definition, add BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB flag.
You need to create a "user-config.jam" file that indicates where the python headers and libs can be found by Boost.Build. You can create it in your boost_1_53_0/ directory with the following contents:
# Configure specific Python version.
using python : 2.7
: C:/Python27/python.exe
: C:/Python27/include #directory that contains pyconfig.h
: C:/Python27/libs #directory that contains python27.lib
: <toolset>msvc ;
Then from that boost_1_53_0/ directory you need to invoke b2 like this in order to build the missing library:
b2 toolset=msvc-11.0 --with-python variant=debug runtime-debugging=on link=shared --user-config=user-config.jam stage
(although I would recommend b2 toolset=msvc-11.0 --with-python --user-config=user-config.jam --build-type=complete stage so you can get in one step all the configurations that you might need in the future)
Once you have the libraries you need to add the directories to Visual Studio ( both to boost and to python).
Once you have successfully built the module you need to rename it to Test.pyd (exact name you used in BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE. If you have the python and Boost.Python libraries in your PATH or in your current directory you will be able to use the script in the tutorial:
import Test
print Test.greet()
and get the familiar "hello world".
Note that I'm very thankful for your tries but none of your answers helped. A fellow student then gave the hint for the right answer to me and some steps are really easy, others I don't understand, but it works now.
First Problem was: The new boost 1.53.0 does not work with Python27 or older. I then linked it with Python33 and had the build error removed.
But of course the build version didn't work without an error. As I tried to start my helloboost.py which imports from the .pyd built by VisualStudio and invokes the greet method, the following error occured:
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
As i checked the hello_ext.pyd with the dependency walker and wildly copy pasted around, I found out it needs the boost_python-vc110-mt-gd-1_53.dll (probably depending on what you need and built with bjam before) in the same folder. It worked then. Maybe someone can explain why nowhere was explained that I need this dll in the same folder as the pyd (or did I miss something? Is it just because I made a mistake before?)
Anyhow, I'm very glad it works now and hope it helps other people.
You probably will have worked this out by now - however:
When a .exe looks for a .dll to load no path is specified. Therefore a .dll must be in the search path for the file.
Also: I was trying to build 1.49 libs for Visual Studio 2013 - and kept getting the LNK error from my project. I don't know who suggested it on stackoverflow but someone\something gave me the idea to copy build system from a more recent boost which knows how to make .libs for more recent environments. (thank you)
I had to copy the boost build system from a 1.58 after running bootstrap in 1.58, copy b2, bjam and boost-build.jam to the earlier boost folder root to replace the same named files there. Also you will need to copy the later tools\build folder to support the build system.
Noting here in the hope it might help someone else in a similar cituation I found myself in.
See: Search Path Used by Windows to Locate a DLL
I have checked out a version of project from SVN. Below are the different kinds of errors I got while trying to CMAKE a project from SVN. Could it be that some of the files are not checked out? Please, go through the three kinds of errors and help me out with it.
==================Type 1==================================
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:184 (add_subdirectory):
add_subdirectory given source "google/gmock" which is not an existing
directory.
==================Type 2==================================
Subversion executable was not found.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:14 (UpLinqSVN_WC_INFO):
Unknown CMake command "UpLinqSVN_WC_INFO".
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:207 (CreateVersionInfo)
========================TYPE 3==========================================
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
FFMPEG_AVCODEC_LIB
linked by target "UpLinq" in directory C:/Users/Krishna/Desktop/2.5/GUI
FFMPEG_AVCORE_LIB
linked by target "UpLinq" in directory C:/Users/Krishna/Desktop/2.5/GUI
FFMPEG_AVDEVICE_LIB
linked by target "UpLinq" in directory C:/Users/Krishna/Desktop/2.5/GUI
Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Error 1 indeed indicates that the CMakeLists.txt expected there to be a directory called google/gmock (relative to the CMakeLists.txt which is calling add_subdirectory at line 184).
Without more info, there's no way to tell if this is an error in the CMakeLists file or in the repository.
The first part of error 2 (can't find Subversion exe) looks like a custom error message. It may be looking for a ".svn" folder in the project root, and assuming that Subversion is available. Presumably it then looks for the Subversion exe and fails to find it (not in path maybe?)
The second part of error2 (unknown CMake command) is saying that at line 14 of CMakeLists.txt, there's a command called UpLinqSVN_WC_INFO being invoked. It doesn't recognise this as a valid command, which probably means that it's defined as a function or macro in another CMake file somewhere. It would need to be defined before it's invoked at line 14. It could be that the CMakeLists.txt you're executing is expected to be run as part of a larger build, which would define this function before starting on your CMakeLists.txt.
Error 3 is saying that there's a CMake target called "UpLinq" (an exe or lib) which has a dependency on ${FFMPEG_AVCODEC_LIB}. At some point, there's probably been a find_library call looking for the avcodec library which has also failed. The result of the search is held in the variable FFMPEG_AVCODEC, and it shows that ${FFMPEG_AVCODEC} has a value of FFMPEG_AVCODEC-NOTFOUND.
If you need more help than this, you'll need to put up a copy of the relevant parts of the CMakeLists files involved, and a bit more info about your environment / directory structures.