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I would like to attempt building Camotics http://www.camotics.org/download.html

It seems to be quite an undertaking, moving me well out of my comfort zone.

I suppose I ought to get the prerequisites in place first. I can't find all these at SBo (actually none), and guess I have to build them from source as well. But then I am not sure what to translate some of them with, since a few seem Debian specific.

Any help and hints are most welcome.

Code:

scons

build-essential

libbz2-dev

zlib1g-dev

libexpat1-dev

libssl-dev

libboost-iostreams-dev

libboost-system-dev

libboost-filesystem-dev

libboost-regex-dev

libsqlite3-dev

libv8-dev

qt4-dev-tools

libqt4-dev

libqt4-opengl-dev

libcairo2-dev

git

Most or all of those things are already in Slackware, with different packages names, of course. Just try building it and see if it complains about anything being missing.

The first part probably ended well. There was some sort of warning right at the start. But I didn't see what it was.

Quote:

# Build C!
scons -C cbang
export CBANG_HOME=$PWD/cbang

Code:

scons: done building targets.

source/camotics/cbang# export CBANG_HOME=$PWD/cbang

source/camotics/cbang#

The main piece of work didn't go so well.

Quote:

# Build CAMotics
cd CAMotics
scons

This is the result:

Code:

source/camotics/cbang# cd ../CAMotics/

source/camotics/CAMotics# scons

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

EnvironmentError: No tool named 'config': not a Zip file:

  File "/home/wed/slackpacks64_14.2/source/camotics/CAMotics/SConstruct", line 14:

    env.Tool('config', toolpath = [cbang])

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/SCons/Environment.py", line 1807:

    tool = SCons.Tool.Tool(tool, toolpath, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/SCons/Tool/__init__.py", line 97:

    module = self._tool_module()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/SCons/Tool/__init__.py", line 157:

    raise SCons.Errors.EnvironmentError(m)

source/camotics/CAMotics#

I don't know where it is looking for the tool 'config'. Or why it should be a Zip-file.

First off, your export command was given in the wrong directory. If you try something like this, you'll get "better" errors:

Code:

mkdir testing

cd testing

git clone https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentLLC/cbang

git clone https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentLLC/CAMotics

scons -C cbang

export CBANG_HOME=$PWD/cbang

cd CAMotics

scons

The reason why I wrote "better" is that you'll find out that you'll need either Microsoft's Chakra or Google's V8.
The latter is a beast to compile and I haven't found any current slackbuilds for it.