Hello!
I was trying to build ROOT from source. While making the cmake command, some errors occured:
– The C compiler identification is GNU 7.4.0
– The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.4.0
– Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
– Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc – works
– Detecting C compiler ABI info
– Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
– Detecting C compile features
– Detecting C compile features - done
– Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
– Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ – works
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
– Detecting CXX compile features
– Detecting CXX compile features - done
– Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version “2.17.1”)
– ROOT default compression algorithm: zlib
– Found GCC. Major version 7, minor version 7
– Performing Test HAS_CXX11
– Performing Test HAS_CXX11 - Success
– Looking for pthread.h
– Looking for pthread.h - found
– Looking for pthread_create
– Looking for pthread_create - not found
– Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
– Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
– Looking for pthread_create in pthread
– Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
– Found Threads: TRUE
– Found a 64bit system
– Found GNU compiler collection
– Performing Test GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI
– Performing Test GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI - Success
– ROOT Platform: linux
– ROOT Architecture: linuxx8664gcc
– Build Type: RelWithDebInfo
– Compiler Flags: -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -Wno-noexcept-type -pipe -m64 -Wshadow -Wall -W -Woverloaded-virtual -fsigned-char -pthread -std=c++11
– Looking for ZLib
– Could NOT find ZLIB (missing: ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)
– Zlib not found. Switching on builtin_zlib option
– Looking for Freetype
– Could NOT find Freetype (missing: FREETYPE_LIBRARY FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS)
– FreeType not found. Switching on builtin_freetype option
– Building freetype version 2.6.1 included in ROOT itself
– Looking for PCRE
– Could NOT find PCRE (missing: PCRE_INCLUDE_DIR PCRE_PCRE_LIBRARY)
– PCRE not found. Switching on builtin_pcre option
– Building pcre version 8.37 included in ROOT itself
– Looking for LZMA
– LZMA not found. Switching on builtin_lzma option
– Building LZMA version 5.2.1 included in ROOT itself
– Looking for xxHash
– Could NOT find xxHash (missing: xxHash_LIBRARY xxHash_INCLUDE_DIR)
– xxHash not found. Switching on builtin_xxhash option
– Looking for LZ4
– Could NOT find LZ4 (missing: LZ4_LIBRARY LZ4_INCLUDE_DIR)
– LZ4 not found. Switching on builtin_lz4 option
– Looking for X11
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindX11.cmake:429 (message):
Could not find X11
Call Stack (most recent call first):
cmake/modules/SearchInstalledSoftware.cmake:9 (_find_package)
cmake/modules/SearchInstalledSoftware.cmake:271 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:150 (include)
– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “/home/lmk/Downloads/root-6.16.00/obj/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “/home/lmk/Downloads/root-6.16.00/obj/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.
I am very new to ROOT and I dont really know how to fix this, so help is very much appreciated!
Thank you!