Compiling FACT++

First you need to get FACT++ from the svn-repository

svn checkout https://www.fact-project.org/svn/trunk/FACT++

Now create a new subdirectory

cd FACT++
mkdir build

And call cmake from there

cmake ..

to compile with clang, you might want to do

cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ ..

Note that not all versions of clang are compatible with all version of the boost-libraries.

If you only want to compile the basic tools (like rootifysql) you can add -DTOOLS_ONLY=1 when calling cmake.

If a package is missing, you will see an error which looks like this

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137 (message):
  Could NOT find Nova (missing: NOVA_LIBRARY NOVA_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:378 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  cmake/FindNova.cmake:11 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:131 (FIND_PACKAGE)

It is a bit tricky to find out which package is missing at the moment. In this case, it is the development package of the nova library (libnova-dev).

Then call make.

Packaging FACT++

For the tool-set, you can build a archive file and Debian packages by make package. The Debian package can then be installed with dpkg -i fact++-YYWWDDHH.deb while YYWWDDHH is the version number compiled from the time when cmake was called.