Where is the CMake GUI for Linux?

Question

I have CMake installed on my Ubuntu Linux. Trying to run CMake GUI in Linux. I found it works in Windows, but where to get it and how to run in Linux?

Answer 1

If you're building the latest from source, this is a lot harder than anyone else here suggests. I finally found this that got it working:

First, download the source from: https://cmake.org/download/

More specifically for Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, 64 bit get: https://cmake.org/files/v3.5/cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz

Download it to the following directory (or any directory you like!): /opt/dev-tools-sources

Unzip it there, using GUI archive manager or $ tar -zxvf cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz

You should have now a folder like this: /opt/dev-tools-sources/cmake-3.5.2

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Go to this folder: $ cd /opt/dev-tools-sources/cmake-3.5.2

Install openssl to allow CMAKE have access to ssl protected websites if it needs to download extra files $ sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev

Edit the bootstrap file and change the line: cmake_options="-DCMAKE_BOOTSTRAP=1"

To this cmake_options="-DCMAKE_BOOTSTRAP=1 -DCMAKE_USE_OPENSSL=ON"

If you want cmake-gui, you will need qt4 libs an ncurses $ sudo apt install libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools libncurses5-dev

Run the configuration (you need to have gcc and g++ 4.7 or higher installed. I recommend 4.8.4 or higher actually!) $ ./configure --qt-gui

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Make sure in the generated CMakeCache.txt, GUI is set to TRUE, open CMakeCache.txt with any editor and check the following line: BUILD_QtDialog:BOOL=ON

If it was OFF or 0, make it ON or 1

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It is time to build executables and libraries from source: $ make -j2

Now, install: $ sudo make install

Confirm you also got GUI version with $ cmake-gui