Cmake is not able to find Python-libraries

Question

Getting this error:

sudo: unable to resolve host coderw@ll
-- Could NOT find PythonLibs (missing:  PYTHON_LIBRARIES PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS) 
CMake Error at /usr         


        

Answer 1

I hit the same issue,and discovered the error message gives misleading variable names. Try setting the following (singular instead of plural):

PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python2.7 
PYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.so

The (plural) variables you see error messages about are values that the PythonLibs sets up when it is initialised correctly.