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.

Requirements

• CMake >= 3.1
• Radare2 installed from submodule, see README.md
• Qt 5.9

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

On windows

Alternatively, on Windows you can run something like this (depending on your Cmake installation)

set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=c:\Qt\qt-5.6.2-msvc2013-x86\5.6\msvc2013\lib\cmake
cd src
mkdir build
cd build
cmake-gui ..

Click Configure and select Visual Studio 12 2013 from the list. After configuration is done, click Generate and you can open Cutter.sln to compile the code as usual.

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 ..