Can't build on Ubuntu

[gAldeia]

I'm trying to build the pyoperon package by following the instructions in BUILDING.md. I'm using vcpkg to install dependencies and managed to install all required dependencies, including the C++ operon version.

When I try to build pyoperon it gives me the following error:

guilherme@mini-ITX:~/Desktop/pyoperon$ cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/opt/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
-- Running vcpkg install
-- Running vcpkg install - failed
CMake Error at /opt/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:831 (message):
  vcpkg install failed.  See logs for more information:
  /home/guilherme/Desktop/pyoperon/build/vcpkg-manifest-install.log
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/CMakeDetermineSystem.cmake:93 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:5 (project)

CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

The generated log file /home/guilherme/Desktop/pyoperon/build/vcpkg-manifest-install.log:

Fetching registry information from https://github.com/foolnotion/vcpkg-registry>
Fetching registry information from https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg (HEAD)...
Error: Cycle detected during vstat:x64-linux:

I also tried to build C++ operon by giving the -DBUILD_PYBIND=ON option. It gives me the following output:

guilherme@mini-ITX:~/Desktop/operon$ cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/opt/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DBUILD_PYBIND=ON
-- Running vcpkg install
-- Running vcpkg install - done
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 9.3.0
-- 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 Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.25.1") 
-- Looking for C++ include pthread.h
-- Looking for C++ include pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Taskflow found. Headers: /home/guilherme/Desktop/operon/build/vcpkg_installed/x64-linux/include
-- Could NOT find aria-csv (missing: aria-csv_DIR)
-- Disabled features:
 * USE_OPENLIBM, Link against Julia's openlibm, a high performance mathematical library [default=OFF].
 * USE_JEMALLOC, Link against jemalloc, a general purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support [default=OFF].
 * USE_TCMALLOC, Link against tcmalloc (thread-caching malloc), a malloc(3) implementation that reduces lock contention for multi-threaded programs [default=OFF].
 * USE_MIMALLOC, Link against mimalloc, a general purpose allocator with excellent performance characteristics [default=OFF].
 * USE_SINGLE_PRECISION, Perform model evaluation using floats (single precision) instead of doubles. Great for reducing runtime, might not be appropriate for all purposes [default=OFF].
 * USE_CERES_NNLS, Use the non-linear least squares optimizer from Ceres solver to tune model coefficients (if OFF, Eigen::LevenbergMarquardt will be used instead).

-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_HIDDEN_INLINE_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR - Success
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

    BUILD_PYBIND

-- Build files have been written to: /home/guilherme/Desktop/operon/build

I managed to install pyoperon via nix, but the package becomes available inside a new python installation that does not integrate with my other python packages, as well as it does not provide pip to install new ones.

Is there a way to make any of the building processes work? Or is there a way to use the nix version of pyoperon with my default anaconda3 python installation? My default python version is 3.9.7, which is pretty similar to the one nix installs.

[foolnotion]

Hi,

For the first problem, it seems that you are missing the build-essential package in ubuntu? CMake can't find make

For the second problem, unfortunately it's a vcpkg bug https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/20503 and I'm trying to work around it

For the third problem, heal-research/operon now only contains the C++ library, so there is no BUILD_PYBIND option anymore.

About pyoperon via nix: you could just clone the repo and edit flake.nix, where you add all the other python packages that you are using. You can search for them here: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=nixos-unstable. After that just run nix develop and you're set.

I will leave this issue open until we find a convenient way to build on ubuntu.

[gAldeia]

I had build-essential installed, but it didn't work. One thing that I found weird is that Cmake wasn't able to find make only when building pyoperon, but not operon.

I managed to successfully build and install the pyoperon using the script you merged in srbench recently with no problems in a fresh new ubuntu 20.04 installation with only miniconda.

Thanks for your attention. I think this issue can be closed.