installing on centos 8

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I’m trying to compile NGSolve on centos 8, I’ve followed the directions for compiling from source, however I get an error running $ make:

[ 53%] Performing build step for ‘netgen_project’
make[3]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/netgen_project.dir/build.make:111: dependencies/Stamp/netgen_project/netgen_project-build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:174: CMakeFiles/netgen_project.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

Does anyone have any idea what may be going wrong?

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Hi,

I guess that there are missing dependencies, could you post the complete output of the configure command?

Best,
Matthias

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Hi,

I guess that there are missing dependencies, could you post the complete output of the configure command?

Best,
Matthias

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Sorry I’m a bit new to using cmake, which output are you wanting specifically, I want to avoid spamming ya’ll with a wall of text? You were right about dependencies, I’ve managed to get beyond this error by checking dependencies and installing a couple that were missing, however I’m now stuck on a new 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:
X11_Xmu_LIB (ADVANCED)
linked by target “gui” in directory /home/dustiest/ngsolve/ngsolve-src/external_dependencies/netgen/ng
linked by target “netgen” in directory /home/dustiest/ngsolve/ngsolve-src/external_dependencies/netgen/ng
linked by target “nglib” in directory /home/dustiest/ngsolve/ngsolve-src/external_dependencies/netgen/nglib

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “/home/dustiest/ngsolve/ngsolve-build/netgen/netgen/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “/home/dustiest/ngsolve/ngsolve-build/netgen/netgen/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.
make[5]: *** [CMakeFiles/netgen.dir/build.make:109: dependencies/src/netgen-stamp/netgen-configure] Error 1
make[4]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:100: CMakeFiles/netgen.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/netgen_project.dir/build.make:111: dependencies/Stamp/netgen_project/netgen_project-build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:174: CMakeFiles/netgen_project.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

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You can attach files to avoid walls of text :slight_smile:

You are still missing one dependenc: libXmu

In case you still have problems, check out the build instructions. Although they are written for Ubuntu, it shouldn’t be a problem to figure out the corresponding package names for CentOS.

Best,
Matthias

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Oops, thanks for your help, somehow I inadvertently didn’t use the libXmu-devel package. Thanks for your help.