problem building from source

[danfulop]

I ran cmake just fine, but then ran into a problem when running make:

• This worked fine:

$ cmake ../slimm/src -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$HOME/bin/applications/seqan/util/cmake" -DSEQAN_INCLUDE_PATH="$HOME/bin/applications/seqan/include"

• But, then I got this error in the next step:

$ make
Scanning dependencies of target slimm
make[2]: Warning: File `CMakeFiles/slimm.dir/depend.make' has modification time 40 s in the future
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/slimm.dir/slimm.o
<command-line>:0:19: error: too many decimal points in number
/data/home/dfulop/bin/applications/slimm/src/slimm.h:592:24: note: in expansion of macro 'SEQAN_APP_VERSION'
     setVersion(parser, SEQAN_APP_VERSION);
                        ^
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/slimm.dir/slimm.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/slimm.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

It seems a bit odd that this would happen, that is that it would fail due to SeqAn's version. I installed SeqAn with Linuxbrew, but the seqan dir pointed to in the cmake flags is a downloaded source. However, it's the same version number as the Linuxbrew-installed seqan.

[temehi]

I would highly recommend using the SeqAn provided with the source code as a sub-repository. You can do that by cloning the SLIMM git repository recursively as follows:

git clone --recursive git@github.com:seqan/slimm.git

then:

mkdir slimm-build
cd slimm-build
cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++14" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../slimm
make

[danfulop]

Okay. I might try that. Thanks for the suggestion and the prompt feedback! In the end I used the RPM package and installed SLIMM locally (to my user) with the help of rpm2cpio. I'm using it in a shared cluster in which I don't have sudo permission.