<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm preparing to install PCL (Point Cloud Library), and their building PCL's dependencies from source tutorial says to download Cmake. However, in the Cmake read me it says, </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(19,79,92);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"</span><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">If you don't have any previous version of CMake already installed</font></div>
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</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">* UNIX/Mac OSX/MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">You need to have a compiler and a make installed.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">Run the bootstrap script you find the in the source directory of CMake.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">You can use the --help option to see the supported options.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">You may want to use the --prefix=<install_prefix> option to specify a custom</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">installation directory for CMake. You can run the bootstrap script from</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">within the CMake source directory or any other build directory of your</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">choice. Once this has finished successfully, run make and make install.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">So basically it's the same as you may be used to from autotools-based</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">projects:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">$ ./bootstrap; make; make install</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#134f5c" face="verdana, sans-serif">"</font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(19,79,92)">I'm wondering if Cmake is the "make" that already needs to be installed or if another program is needed. Also, how do I run the bootstrap? Sorry for the novice questions, but this is my first time working in this space.</div>
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