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aewallin / opencamlib

open source computer aided manufacturing algorithms library
http://www.anderswallin.net/CAM
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Building on FreeBSD #96

Closed denverh2000 closed 3 years ago

denverh2000 commented 3 years ago

Hello,

FreeBSD reserves locations like /usr/include, /usr/lib for the base system. Everything else goes into /usr/local. When I first tried building ocl I got errors about missing boost header files. I could fix those errors by temporarily creating a symbolic link to /usr/local/include/boost in /usr/include. It would be better if ocl could find the necessary libraries and headers in /usr/local, but I'm not sure how to get that done.

Thanks,

Denver

aewallin commented 3 years ago

cmake (https://cmake.org/) should support FreeBSD, however I don't have a FreeBSD system to test on.

If you are eager to get this working then I guess read the cmake documentation and how/if cmake-scripts should be modified to better support FreeBSD.

The opencamlib build has grown quite complex - it would be good to separate it into a bare C++ library (perhaps including python bindings) and have all the rest as separate builds.

denverh2000 commented 3 years ago

cmake works fine with FreeBSD. Lots of other projects use it and build with no problem. What I found was that it was choosing the base system compiler (/usr/bin/c++), which specifically does not search /usr/local. I added "-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/local/bin/gcc" to the cmake command.