How to compile cmake on linux server?

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I want to compile cmake in my working folder on one of the super computing facility. I am not sure how to compile it in my working directory. Can anyone please help me in this regard?

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Ashish

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Have you tried as described in the documentation?

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Yes I tried that, but don’t know where I am going wrong. I am not familiar much with coding.

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Could you please provide all steps you do?
What step has failed?
Could you please provide an error message?

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1] ./bootstrap > this step is working properly.
2] After this step it is asking me to run gmake. and then it is showing following error…

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Could you please provide the version of Linux/gcc do you using?

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one of the options can be to disable testing (since an error in it)

./bootstrap -- -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF

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Now it is showing following error
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Looks like your compiler does not supports C++11 standard, even experimental.
Could you please provide compiler information/version?

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Following is the compiler information (I hope I am providing the required information)

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I’m not sure when CMake make C++11 standard mandatory, but it’s clear to me that you’ll not be able to compile it with gcc 4.1.
You need a more recent compiler (at least 4.6 IMO).

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Seems it since 3.10 (https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/commit/fd4fd9a276126a1b1044d57a064c3b8201a91a33)

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Thank you Sergei for your efforts and valuable time.

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Thanks Jakub Zakrzewski. But I am not much familiar with coding, so i didn’t understand much from the given link. Could you please guide me in simple way?

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Nothing really - it’s just a link to a commit that introduced hard C++11 dependency. It was in CMake 3.10, so since this version a compiler supporting C++11 is required for building CMake.

The only 2 things you can do is either to set on CMake 3.9 or upgrade your compiler.

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Okay… Thanks! Will try that one

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Hi…
Now I tried with CMake 3.9.6
Executed following command:
./bootstrap – -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
It worked properly. Then it asked me to run gmake.
After this when I checked CMake version by cmake --version it is showing me older version.

Do I need to execute some more commands? Please suggest.

Regards,
Ashish

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It’s not enough to compile something. You have to install it somewhere and make sure that somewhere is in your path.
It’s usually not a good idea to install self-compiled software over the version provided by your package manager. I usually install stuff to ~/local and have ~/local/bin in my PATH.