compiling error: zlib.h: No such file or directory

[orionzhou]

I am getting this error:

[ 4%] Building CXX object src/api/CMakeFiles/BamTools.dir/internal/BgzfStream_p.cpp.o
/project/youngn/zhoup/Source/bamtools/src/api/internal/BgzfStream_p.cpp:20:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory

What can I do to tell cmake to look for zlib.h in my custom library (e.g., /usr/local/include) ? thanks a lot!

[pezmaster31]

Try something with this: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:include_directories in your bamtools/src/api/CMakeLists.txt file.

include_directories( /your/custom/dir )

Let me know if that does the trick or not.

[orionzhou]

Thanks - that works. I have another question, if I want to install bamtools to a directory (e.g., $prefix), by doing:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$prefix
make
make install

It will generate directory layout like this:

$prefix
--bin
--include
----bamtools
------.h
--lib
----bamtools
------.so

This works if I want to install bamtools to /usr/local, but doesn't work if I don't want to mix it up with other libraries and want to generate layout like this:

$prefix
--bin
--include
----.h
--lib
----.so

Is there anything I could tell cmake to do rather than manually move the files?

Thanks,

[pezmaster31]

Unfortunately, I really don't know. I never dove into all the
intricacies of the install side of CMake, just the build side.

Between the CMake docs & Google, you might be able to figure out
something along the lines of what you're looking for. I'd love to try
and help more, but am swamped with some critical fixes on my end right now.

Sorry I can't be of much help at the moment.

• Derek

On 10/13/2011 09:44 PM, orionzhou wrote:

Thanks - that works. I have another question, if I want to install bamtools to a directory (e.g., $prefix), by doing:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$prefix
make
make install

It will generate directory layout like this:

$prefix
--bin
--include
----bamtools
------.h
--lib
----bamtools
------.so

This works if I want to install bamtools to /usr/local, but doesn't work if I don't want to mix it up with other libraries and want to generate layout like this:

$prefix
--bin
--include
----.h
--lib
----.so

Is there anything I could tell cmake to do rather than manually move the files?

Thanks,