[MINC-development] compiling Display from github

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Hello,

yes, basically you have to compile all the bits and pieces that Display
uses with CMake ( or just try compiling Display using
https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit )


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jason Lerch <jason at phenogenomics.ca> wrote:

> Thanks for the cmake pointers. Two questions for the dumb ones amongst us
> (i.e. me):
>
> * what's the equivalent of --prefix and our --with-build-path?
> * does everything (MINC, BICPL, etc.) have to be built with cmake or can
> one mix and match make and autotools?
>
> I got the development branch, and tried running cmake, which barfs with
> the following error:
>
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:118 (find_package):
>   By not providing "FindLIBMINC.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
> has
>   asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "LIBMINC",
> but
>   CMake did not find one.
>
>   Could not find a package configuration file provided by "LIBMINC" with
> any
>   of the following names:
>
>     LIBMINCConfig.cmake
>     libminc-config.cmake
>
>   Add the installation prefix of "LIBMINC" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
>   "LIBMINC_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
>   "LIBMINC" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
>   been installed.
>
>
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>
> MINC and friends are compiled into /usr/local/minc2 (with autotools) with
> nary a .cmake file to be found under that tree. I'm sure I'm just
> forgetting something simple and obvious …
>
> Jason
>
> On 2012-11-05, at 11:03 AM, Vladimir S. FONOV <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Exactly
> On Nov 5, 2012 11:01 AM, "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh at octave.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5 November 2012 10:39, Vladimir S. FONOV <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
>> > <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 5 November 2012 10:03, Jason Lerch <jason at phenogenomics.ca> wrote:
>> >> > No, I was using the master branch. I'll give the devel branch a try
>> >> > later - which I guess will include trying to understand the god
>> >> > forsaken cmake build system (I know that autoconf sucks and the
>> >> > thought of writing anything in m4 is horrid, but at least I got used
>> >> > to it!).
>> >>
>> >> Cmake sucks too, since it's a lot more difficult to write custom tests
>> >> for it that aren't already built-in. It's less flexible than
>> >> autotools, but using it as a user should be no more difficult than
>> >> autotools. Instead of doing
>> >>
>> >>     cd build-directory ## optional
>> >>     /path/to/configure
>> >>     make
>> >>     make install
>> >>
>> >> do
>> >>
>> >>     cd build-directory ## optional
>> >>     cmake /path/to/CMakeLists.txt
>> >>     make
>> >>     make install
>> >>
>> >> As we say in IRC, "The 'suck' is a unit vector. A given foo doesn't
>> >> suck LESS, it just sucks in a direction a given hacker finds less
>> >> disagreeable."
>>
>> > Are you ready to take over as official minc maintainer?
>>
>> No, I didn't mean to say that CMake is a bad choice. Building is a
>> chore. All choices are equally annoying. For MINC, CMake may have a
>> 'suck' vector in a better direction than autotools. I'm used to both
>> and I dislike both for different reasons, but I've disliked every
>> build system I've ever seen (ant, Scons, bjam...)
>>
>> > If you are not, then in this particular situation your 'suck' vector is
>> > purely imaginary.
>>
>> So it points straight up in the complex plane? :-)
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
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-- 
Best regards,

 Vladimir S. Fonov ~ vladimir <dot> fonov <at> gmail <dot> com
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