Problem building executable from source on OS X and Linux

[wagnar-woofbrok]

Hello,

I followed the directions for building keepassxc from source on OS X listed here, but I'm having an issue where the process completes OK but I cannot find the executable. I tried the Linux instructions on a Debian flavor Linux machine and had the same issue.

The directions say to cd into the keepassxc directory after a git clone, checkout latest, and then run these commands:

mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_XC_ALL=ON ..
make

Then the executable is supposed to be in the directory ./build/src.

However, I cannot run the cmake command from keepassxc/build/ because it complains that this directory "does not contain CMakeLists.txt" (which is true). If I run the commands from the keepassxc/ directory, it completes OK but there is no ./build/src directory.

Can someone please help me figure out what I'm misunderstanding or not seeing?

[droidmonkey]

You forgot the .. at the end of the cmake command when you are in the build folder.

[michaelk83]

Wouldn't it be more intuitive to run cmake from the root directory like this user has, and have it take care of the build subfolder on its own (without all the extra mkdir, cd, ..)?

[droidmonkey]

CMake philosophy is to be performed in an immutable way from your source folder. So that means starting from a folder YOU make.