Drake: problem with the installation from the source code

[palmieri]

Hi all,

I am trying to install drake by compiling its source. I got the src from https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake.git.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04, with gcc/g++ 4.9.3 and cmake 3.5. The installation is carried on with the DISABLE_MATLAB option ON (because I would like to use only the cpp API).
After giving the command "make" from the main drake folder, I got this error:

Performing configure step for 'bot_core_lcmtypes'
-- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/palmieri/libraries/drake/install
CMake Error at cmake/pods.cmake:721 (message):

    Do not run cmake directly in the pod directory.
    use the supplied Makefile instead!  You now need to
    remove CMakeCache.txt and the CMakeFiles directory.



    Then to build, simply type:
     $ make

Call Stack (most recent call first):
cmake/pods.cmake:761 (enforce_out_of_source)
CMakeLists.txt:5 (include)

Thanks for your help!
Best,

Luigi

[david-german-tri]

This is odd! I was unable to reproduce just now in a clean clone of master at de9d89 on Ubuntu 14.04 with g++ 4.9.3 and cmake 3.5.2.

git clone ...
make options # set DISABLE_MATLAB to OFF
make

One possible suspect: your CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ends with /install, whereas mine ends with /build. Any idea how that happened?

[liangfok]

I've seen this error before when I accidentally ran:

$ cd [drake-distro]/drake/
$ cmake .

Is this what you did?

[palmieri]

Yes, that's what I erroneously did (cmake . )! Thanks!

[liangfok]

Great! I will go ahead and close this issue. Please feel free to re-open it if you're still having problems compiling Drake.