Error Trying to Build DIRTSAND Server

[PeterC]

I tried, as per the DIRTSAND: Getting started, to build the server. On this instruction:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/dirtsand ..

I get:

CMake Error: you CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:8 (message):
GCC version >=4.6 required

Can anyone help?

[Lyrositor]

I would think you could guess from the error.
Your system obviously doesn't have the GNU C++ Compiler (GCC) installed. Are you sure you installed all the prerequisites?

GCC 4.6+ (other C++11-compliant compilers might work, but haven't been tested),
PostgreSQL: you will need both the libraries (for compiling) and the database server (for the vault),
OpenSSL (libssl),
libreadline,
zlib,
git: used to acquire the source code for DIRTSAND,
cmake: used to create the makefiles for GCC 4.6+.

In Ubuntu, you should be able to install it using "sudo apt-get install g++".

[PeterC]

ok, installed g++. tried to install PostgreSQL, zlib, libreadline, and OpenSSL, all to failure. Going to find them all and DL them. Hope that's right.

Edit: found command "get-apt install postgresql-9.1" that works once I start it with the standard "sudo". Looking for the rest.

Edit: ok, installed G++ and PostgreSQL, tried to rerun:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/dirtsand ..

and get:

CMake Error at cmake/FindPostgres.cmake:23 (message):
Could not find PostgreSQL
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:19 (find_package)

[Lyrositor]

You also need to install the development packages for PostgreSQL:

PostgreSQL: you will need both the libraries (for compiling) and the database server (for the vault)

[PeterC]

I think I'll take a vacation here. No idea where to find that.

[Lyrositor]

You need to learn Linux for this to work, specifically Ubuntu. Otherwise, you won't get ANYWHERE fast.

If you know what you're doing, setting up a shard need only take a few minutes to an hour.

[PeterC]

Linux will tell me where the following are located?

GCC 4.6+ (other C++11-compliant compilers might work, but haven't been tested),
PostgreSQL: you will need both the libraries (for compiling) and the database server (for the vault),
OpenSSL (libssl),
libreadline,
zlib,
git: used to acquire the source code for DIRTSAND,
cmake: used to create the makefiles for GCC 4.6+.

[Lyrositor]

You can use Google to find those. Better yet, use Synaptic, and search for the libs (maybe with the -dev prefix too).

[PeterC]

So I don't use git to install libreadline, zlib, OpenSSL or the postgresqk dev packages?

[Lyrositor]

No, git is only used to download the sources for Plasma.