cmStringTable.cxx is missing

[vonzorich]

make: *** No rule to make target '/mnt/f/workspace/CMake/Source/cmStringTable.cxx', needed by 'cmStringTable.o'. Stop.

[tinco]

Just encountered this problem as well.

This is my dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:latest as build


RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y autoconf build-essential binutils cmake curl file gcc g++ git libgcc-8-dev libtool make tar unzip wget ninja-build && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 

RUN cd /tmp \
  && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/CMake.git -b v3.16-MSVC \
  && cd CMake \
  && ./bootstrap && make && make install \
  && cd /tmp && rm -rf CMake

[tinco]

I fixed it for myself by not using bootstrap and instead using cmake to compile itself.

I think the fix for this is to remove mention of cmStringTable from the bootstrap script. A more complete fix would be to have the bootstrap script generate the components instead of having them hardcoded.

[jgoshi]

This GitHub site is a fork of Kitware CMake:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake

Could you close this issue and re-open there?

[mfdeveloper]

I've got the same error! @tinco, Can you help me? Can you add the steps that you follow to solve them ?

[zhirshya]

I too got the same error while bootstrapping on a machine with mips64 cpu and g++ (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6kord1~16.04.4k2) 5.4.0 20160609, anyone solved this issue please share the fix, thanks in advance.

P.S. I worked around this issue by using kitware's source.