Building Vera++ on Debian Stretch

Building Vera++ on Debian Stretch
	Part I. Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted)

Last modified: "2016-12-21 11:55:00 jurjen"

Abstract

Vera++ is a C++ layout tool, but Debian Stretch has version 1.2.1, which is old. Here we install vera++ 1.3 from source.

Table of Contents

The building

Install packages necessary for building

sudo apt-get build-dep vera++ sudo apt-get install libluabind-dev tk-dev tcl-dev python-dev liblua5.1-0-dev
Fetch source and unpack

wget https://bitbucket.org/verateam/vera/downloads/vera++-1.3.0.tar.gz tar zxf ~/Downloads/vera++-1.3.0.tar.gz cd vera++-1.3.0
Make build dir

mkdir build> cd build
Configure, make, install

export CXXFLAGS='-fPIC' cmake .. make -j sudo make install
Remove package to make sure it isn't used

sudo apt-get purge vera++make -j
Clean up installed packages
Don't foget to run debfoster to clean up the packages that were installed just for this build.


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