cutter/docs/Compiling-with-CMake.md

Compiling with CMake

The "official" way to build Cutter is by using qmake, but as an alternative, a CMakeLists.txt is provided, so CMake can be used as well.

This page provides a guide to compile on Linux or macOS, the process for Windows is described in Compiling-on-Windows.md.

Requirements

• CMake >= 3.1
• Radare2 installed from submodule, see README.md
• Qt 5.9.1

Building

The root for CMake is in src/. In-source builds are not allowed, so you must run CMake from a separate directory:

cd src
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

If all went well, you should now have a working Makefile in your build directory:

make

Troubleshooting

Depending on how Qt installed (Distribution packages or using the Qt installer application), CMake may not be able to find it by itself if it is not in a common place. If that is the case, double check that the correct Qt version is installed. Locate its prefix (a directory containing bin/, lib/, include/, etc.) and specify it to CMake using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH in the above process, e.g.:

rm CMakeCache.txt # the cache may be polluted with unwanted libraries found before
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/Qt/5.9.1/gcc_64 ..