Dear Neil, the problem is caused by a bug in one of the CMakeLists.txt files. This should be corrected now. As for zlib/bzlib, you can simply install prebuilt versions of these libraries: https://trac.seqan.de/wiki/HowTo/InstallContribsWindows Most of the library will also work without zlib, but for reading BAM files or compressed streams, you will need it. This is also explained in some detail in some messages after the configuration. Cheers, Manuel ________________________________________ From: Neil Justice [njjustice@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 2:32 AM To: seqan-dev@lists.fu-berlin.de Subject: [Seqan-dev] I'm interested in making SeqAn faster but am stopped by these CMake errors Hello SeqAn developers, My name is Neil Justice and I'm interested in helping advance genetics research by contributing my programming skills to the task of making SeqAn faster. I work on performance tuning the C++ of a high-frequency algorithmic trading program at a hedge fund in Houston. Lately I've been interested in finding an interesting and good-for-humanity open source project to work on at home, and SeqAn appears to be that project. I am on Windows and am trying to generate a Visual Studio 2008 .sln for SeqAn using CMake. I've pulled the code using svn per tutorial http://trac.seqan.de/wiki/Tutorial/GettingStarted. Here are the CMake errors I encounter in response to CMake command "cmake C:\Seqan\seqan-trunk -G "Visual Studio 9 2008"" (errors also attached as a screenshot): PS C:\Seqan\build> cmake C:\Seqan\seqan-trunk -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 9 2008 -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 9 2008 -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 9 2008 -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 9 2008 -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done SEQAN_CONTRIB_BASE is undefined! -- CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH is "". -- Found PythonInterp: C:/Python32/python.exe (found version "3.2.3") -- Zlib could not be found! -- BZip2 libraries could not be found! -- Try OpenMP C flag = [/openmp] -- Performing Test OpenMP_FLAG_DETECTED -- Performing Test OpenMP_FLAG_DETECTED - Success -- Try OpenMP CXX flag = [/openmp] -- Performing Test OpenMP_FLAG_DETECTED -- Performing Test OpenMP_FLAG_DETECTED - Success -- Performing Test TR1_SHARED_PTR_USE_TR1_MEMORY -- Performing Test TR1_SHARED_PTR_USE_TR1_MEMORY - Failed -- Performing Test TR1_SHARED_PTR_USE_MEMORY -- Performing Test TR1_SHARED_PTR_USE_MEMORY - Success -- Performing Test TR1_UNORDERED_MAP_USE_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -- Performing Test TR1_UNORDERED_MAP_USE_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP - Failed -- Performing Test TR1_UNORDERED_MAP_USE_UNORDERED_MAP -- Performing Test TR1_UNORDERED_MAP_USE_UNORDERED_MAP - Success -- Could NOT find Boost -- Looking for include file execinfo.h -- Looking for include file execinfo.h - not found. -- INFO: Rabema not build because zlib was not found. CMake Error at core/apps/rabema/CMakeLists.txt:43 (install): install TARGETS given target "rabema_build_gold_standard" which does not exist in this directory. -- Boost not found, not building snp_store. -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! PS C:\Seqan\build> PS C:\Seqan\build> How would you fix these errors? I don't have Zlib or BZip2 (do I need to download these libraries?). I have Boost (which was not found - do I need to specify its path somewhere?). I have Python (which was found). Thanks and I look forward to finding some SeqAn performance issues. Neil