Freewins Compiz plugin-- "no makefile found"

adanedhel728 · 03-30-2011, 12:31 AM

I'm trying to install the Freewins Compiz plugin (because I often use my computer while I'm horizontal on the couch; and I realize that's lazy), and I'm trying to use the instructions from this page, which says

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What you have cloned is the source code for the plugin, which needs to be compiled. This can be done by entering the newly created directory and running make, then make install. Do not use sudo for these commands. They install the plugins to ~/.compiz/plugins and therefore do not require root privileges.

but when I do that, bash returns

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~/compiz/freewins$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
~/compiz/freewins$ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

I've googled this and found one guy that has the same problem but no solution, and other pages that talk about Freewins have the exact same instructions for installing.

Does anybody have any idea how to get this working correctly?

Thanks.

andrewthomas · 03-30-2011, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by adanedhel728

I'm trying to install the Freewins Compiz plugin (because I often use my computer while I'm horizontal on the couch; and I realize that's lazy), and I'm trying to use the instructions from this page, which says

but when I do that, bash returns

I've googled this and found one guy that has the same problem but no solution, and other pages that talk about Freewins have the exact same instructions for installing.

Does anybody have any idea how to get this working correctly?

Thanks.

Is there a CMakeLists.txt file in the top-level directory?
Have you tried using CMake?

adanedhel728 · 03-30-2011, 11:14 PM

Well, that's definitely gotten me somewhere. I had never heard of cmake before. So, I installed it and ran "cmake CMakeLists.txt" Then it returned this:

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~/compiz/freewins$ cmake CMakeLists.txt
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (find_package):
Could not find module FindCompiz.cmake or a configuration file for package
Compiz.

Adjust CMAKE_MODULE_PATH to find FindCompiz.cmake or set Compiz_DIR to the
directory containing a CMake configuration file for Compiz. The file will
have one of the following names:

CompizConfig.cmake
compiz-config.cmake

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (include):
include could not find load file:

CompizPlugin

CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I'm guessing that's probably crystal clear to someone, but not to me.

Update: So, yes, there is a CMakeLists.txt file.

andrewthomas · 03-31-2011, 08:32 AM

Try running

Code:

cmake .

In the top-level directory.

knudfl · 03-31-2011, 11:40 AM

Better : mkdir -p build && cd build/ && 'cmake ..'

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CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (include):
include could not find load file:

CompizPlugin

I think you will need a complete new compiz development environment.
Installing compiz-dev and other compiz*****-dev packages :
The "mising CompizPlugin" error will still appear.

May be this http://wiki.compiz.org/Installation/Stable will supply the missing file(s) ?

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