Migrate autotools build to CMake

[suntong]

Hi,

I'm trying to make bimg to use the latest version of libheif, which has moved away from autotools build to CMake, and I was not able to make the changes myself.

The current bimg build steps are:

  cd /tmp/libheif-${LIBHEIF_VERSION} && \
  ./configure --prefix=/vips && \
  make && \
  make install && \

(See https://github.com/h2non/bimg/blob/master/Dockerfile#L21-L24)

I've made numerous attempts, but all failed. This is my latest attempt:

mkdir -p /go/build/--preset=release && \
  mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake --preset=release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/vips .. && \
  ./configure --prefix=/vips && \                                                                  
  make && \
  make install && \

The mkdir -p /go/build/--preset=release doesn't seem right to me, but without it cmake won't proceed.
Having added it, I'm getting:

CMake Error: The source directory "/go/build/--preset=release" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

by which I've run out of ideas making the build going.

PS.

• If needed, I can push my failing Dockerfile file to get you an easier start

UPDATE:

From the Dockerfile build log, I see the version of my CMake is cmake-data (3.18.4-2+deb11u1), which is before 3.21, so I change my build script as:

mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/vips .. && \
  ./configure --prefix=/vips && \
  make && \                                                                                         
 make install && \

But now I'm getting:

CMake Error: The source directory "/go" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

Please help.

[bradh]

@suntong I see you have marked this as resolved. I'm not very familiar with vips, but it looks like bimg no longer supports the build script and you need to follow libvips build instructions.

Is it all good now in any case?

[suntong]

Not yet, I'm still struggling, but my OP was because I didn't cd into proper dir.

Thanks to your input, as trying to build libheif + libde265 seems unnecessary with latest libvips now, I'll take a look at libvips build instructions instead.

Thanks

[suntong]

Yep, directly building libvips works, ref
suntong/bimg@b332700