Cannot compile Caribou/SofaCaribou

[ateixeira0163]

I spent already way too much time trying to make it work, so I'm calling for help :)
I just did all mentioned in : https://caribou.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#compiling but when trying to do 'cmake ..' I always seems to get the same error :

CMake Error at /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/GTestConfig.cmake:35 (include):
  include could not find requested file:

    /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/GTestTargets.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/SofaFrameworkConfig.cmake:91 (find_package)
  cmake/FindSOFA.cmake:19 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:56 (find_package)


CMake Error at /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/SofaFrameworkConfig.cmake:99 (include):
  include could not find requested file:

    /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/SofaFrameworkTargets.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/FindSOFA.cmake:19 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:56 (find_package)


CMake Error at /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/SofaFrameworkConfig.cmake:104 (include):
  include could not find requested file:

    /home/ateixeira/Sofa/src/build/cmake/SofaFrameworkTargets.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/FindSOFA.cmake:19 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:56 (find_package)

the command used was :
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$SOFA_INSTALL/lib/cmake;$SP3_INSTALL/lib/cmake" ..

with $SP3_INSTALL and $SOFA_INSTALL well defined (the path to PluginTargets.cmake and SofaFrameworkTargets.cmake exists). The only weird thing is that these files are not in the same place as said. More exactly, the path to these files are : $~/Sofa/src/build/SofaKernel/SofaFramework/CMakeFiles/Export/lib/cmake/SofaFramework/SofaFrameworkTargets.cmake and $~/Sofa/src/build/applications/plugins/SofaPython3/Plugin/CMakeFiles/Export/lib/cmake/SofaPython3/PluginTargets.cmake

Thanks in advance :)

[jnbrunet]

Hi @ateixeira0163 ,

Make sure you are using the installation path of both SOFA and SofaPython3. The installation path is the path to the directory created during the make install command. It is usually the build directory path, followed by the "install" directory. In your case, it looks like SofaPython3 is compiled alongside SOFA, so it is even simpler. Something like this should work:

~ $ cd ~/Sofa/src/build
~/Sofa/src/build $  cmake -DPLUGIN_SOFAPYTHON3=ON ..
~/Sofa/src/build $  make
~/Sofa/src/build $  make install
~/Sofa/src/build $  export SOFA_ROOT=~/Sofa/src/build/install   # See the "/install" here?

~ $ cd ~/caribou/src/build      # Or whatever your caribou build directory path is...
~/caribou/src/build $ cmake ..  # It should find SOFA and SofaPython3 correctly
~/caribou/src/build $ make

If you noticed, I used the environment variable SOFA_ROOT instead of SOFA_INSTALL. This will be updated soon in the doc, but using this will allow Caribou to find SOFA and its plugins (like SofaPython3) automatically without having to manually change the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable.