CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:333 error

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At the end of my rope. Trying to compile CMB-superbuild using their instructions at https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmb/cmb-superbuild/blob/master/README.md

I’m having this error:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:333 (add_subdirectory):
add_subdirectory given source “superbuild” which is not an existing
directory.

No clue what to do.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

2

Hi Rick,

The superbuild folder is in the git submodule. You may have forgotten to run the git submodule update --init command ?

Florian

3

Thank you for helping, I think running the above command helped, except of course I got new errors.

using cmake-gui I got “Error in configuration process, project files may be invalid” and also the same:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:333 (add_subdirectory):
add_subdirectory given source “superbuild” which is not an existing
directory.

using cmake command line I got:
CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:436 (message):
The build tree appears to be inside of the git repository located at
/home/cmbgit/cmb-superbuild. This interferes with the way the superbuild
applies patches to projects and is not supported. Please relocate the
build tree to a directory which is not under a git repository.

I think I’m getting there…

Thanks again!

4

CMB does not support in-source builds, meaning that you cannot build CMB in the same folder as its sources.

You should have different directories: One for the CMB sources, and one where CMake will generate the project files. For example:

  • /home/cmbgit/cmb-superbuild for the sources comming from git
  • /home/cmbgit/cmb-superbuild-build for the build directory.

As you have generated the build files in your source directory, I advise you to restart the process from the beginning, and remove everything from /home/cmbgit/cmb-superbuild.

Florian

5

Ok, Looks like I’m starting over again. I will have to do it tomorrow. Thank you! I very much appreciate it.

6

Ok, I started over again and things worked out well in that I uninstalled everything and reinstalled all repository files the right way. Then using cmake-gui I was able to configure and generate without any errors.

Now…

I have no idea how to actually start the program. Cannot find any documentation or an executable which explains this. The last listed steps in the README.md says

Building a CMB Installable Package

  • cd into the build directory
  • run ctest -R cpack

Which I did and got the error:
Start 1: cpack-modelbuilder-TGZ
1/1 Test #1: cpack-modelbuilder-TGZ …***Failed 0.03 s

Wow, where do I go from here??
How do I run CMB?

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Hi Rick,

Now that everything CMake related has been fixed, I suggest that you ask the CMB related questions on the CMB discourse.

Florian