Cannot build antimony on Mint Linux

[B1uemax]

I'm following the build instruction up until cmake -GNinja ..
This is the output:
CMake Warning at /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1626 (message):
No header defined for python3; skipping header check
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:28 (find_package)
CMake Error at app/CMakeLists.txt:12 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5OpenGL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5OpenGL", but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5OpenGL" with
any of the following names:
Qt5OpenGLConfig.cmake
qt5opengl-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "Qt5OpenGL" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5OpenGL_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5OpenGL" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/bluemax/antimony/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

[mkeeter]

Try to specify CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, e.g. from the Mac example:

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt/5.10.1 -GNinja ..

(adjust for your local Qt install path).

[B1uemax]

I tried cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/bluemax/Qt5.12.0/5.12.0/ -GNinja ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
*** then I performed a search for cmakelist.txt and included some specific folders, but received the same error

[mkeeter]

What directory did you run this in? You need to be in the Antimony build directory when you invoke the command, so that it finds the top-level CMakeLists.txt in the antimony repo folder.

[B1uemax]

This was my latest try:
bluemax@bluebox:~/antimony/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/share/qt5 -GNinja ..
**CMake Warning at /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1626 (message):
No header defined for python3; skipping header check
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:28 (find_package)
CMake Error at app/CMakeLists.txt:12 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5OpenGL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5OpenGL", but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5OpenGL" with
any of the following names:
Qt5OpenGLConfig.cmake
qt5opengl-config.cmake
prefix of "Qt5OpenGL" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5OpenGL_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5OpenGL" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/bluemax/antimony/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

[mkeeter]

I don't have a Mint system to debug this myself, so you'll need to be more pro-active in hunting this down.

Here are the docs for Qt + CMake.

In order for find_package to be successful, Qt 5 must be found below the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, or the Qt5_DIR must be set in the CMake cache to the location of the Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake file. The easiest way to use CMake is to set the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable to the install prefix of Qt 5.

Is /usr/share/qt5 the "install prefix" of Qt 5?

Another theory:
It's not failing to find Qt5Core or Qt5Widgets (here), which makes me suspicious – does your distro have a separate package for Qt5OpenGL?

[thetomorrowman]

I'm having issues also

dh_auto_configure: cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var returned exit code 1
debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Any thoughts?

[mkeeter]

Can you post the complete log? Are you trying to build the app or make a package?

The build instructions don't mention dh_auto_configure at all, so I'm not sure where that's coming from.

[thetomorrowman]

Hi , i tried to follow the build but it wouldn't work so i went down the Debian Package route as follows
this seems to repeat a few times before it spits it's dummy out

Run Build Command:"/usr/bin/make" "cmTC_6175f/fast"
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/graeme/antimony/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
/usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/build
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/graeme/antimony/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
Building CXX object CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/feature_tests.cxx.o
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++ -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -std=c++98 -o CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/feature_tests.cxx.o -c /home/graeme/antimony/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/feature_tests.cxx
Linking CXX executable cmTC_6175f
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-g++ -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro CMakeFiles/cmTC_6175f.dir/feature_tests.cxx.o -o cmTC_6175f -rdynamic
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/graeme/antimony/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/graeme/antimony/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

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cd /home/graeme/antimony

dh_auto_configure: cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var returned exit code 1
debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

[mkeeter]

I'm sorry, but I don't maintain the Debian package – those are user-contributed, and may have bit-rotted. If you'd like to follow the build instructions in the README and post a complete log, I can take a look.

[thetomorrowman]

it's probably obvious to those in the know...........
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.5m.so (found suitable version "3.5.2", minimum required is "3.3")
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (found version "1.2.8")
-- Found PNG: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so (found version "1.2.54")
-- Found FLEX: /usr/bin/flex (found version "2.6.0")
CMake Error at app/CMakeLists.txt:12 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5OpenGL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5OpenGL", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5OpenGL" with
any of the following names:

Qt5OpenGLConfig.cmake
qt5opengl-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Qt5OpenGL" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5OpenGL_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5OpenGL" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/graeme/antimony/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

[mkeeter]

Yup, it looks like this is the exact same problem as above. Please refer to this comment for next debugging steps.

[mbd-shift]

looks like you might want to install qt5opengl5-dev instead.
Worked for me on mx linux 19