Help With Make

[miketheknight2016]

I am using OSX and want to compile and use the libraries from this GitHub repo https://github.com/nmoinvaz/minizip - I have downloaded the repo and cd into the directory and run these commands

cmake . -DMZ_BUILD_TEST=ON
cmake --build .

My question is, where are the compiled files?

[salem c]

git ls-files -o
Will list all the newly created files which are not being tracked by git.

Or do something like
find . -name "*.o"

[miketheknight2016]

@Salem c - that outputs the files I am trying to locate. How can I find where they are on my local machine?

[salem c]

What do you mean "on your local machine".

If you've done something other than this, you need to tell us.
mkdir foo
cd foo
git clone https://github.com/nmoinvaz/minizip
cmake . -DMZ_BUILD_TEST=ON
cmake --build .

The build files will be in some sub-directory below foo.
Either of the commands I posted would tell you where they are.

[miketheknight2016]

I did this:
1) navigated to the GitHub page
2) clicked clone or download button
3) clicked the download as a .zip button
4) cd to ~/Downloads/githubproject/
5) run the below commands
cmake . -DMZ_BUILD_TEST=ON
cmake --build .

Is that not accurate?

[salem c]

Yeah, so all the files are in ~/Downloads/githubproject/

[miketheknight2016]

If I update NetBeans and open the Project Properties and add to my C++ compiler to reflect this path ../../../Downloads/githubproject/ when I compile I still have build errors.

However, if I manually navigate to the directory ../../../Downloads/githubproject/ the .h file is actually there.

I must be missing something here

[salem c]

Try adding an absolute path then.

A relative path really depends on what NetBeans considers to be the "current" directory when it's doing a build.

[miketheknight2016]

Forgive my ignorance here - what is the diff between an absolute and a relative path?

Adding a absolute path resolved it.

[Ganado]

IDEs (Like NetBeans, Visual Studio, etc.) will often use their own "working directory" that the code or other commands execute from.

A relative path is relative to this working directory.
A global path always starts at the root of the system. ~/Downloads/githubproject/ counts as a global path, because ~ expands to /Users/Username ( '/' is the "root" directory).

For example, if the working directory is /User/Eddy/project, and you want to access a file /User/Eddy/my_file.txt, the relative path from the working directory to the file is ./../my_file.txt. (Often, the initial ./ can be omitted.)

One . means the current directory. The two .. means to go up one level.

This matters for opening files.
You can check the current directory that a script is executing from by entering pwd.

Edit: Fixed typo.