Problems in compiling Cadabra from source

Question

Hi

When I was trying to build the Cadabra from the source, I did find certain errors during the build, and that I cannot open the application at all.

The building process I was following is exactly from here, and after I input the code cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target install , I found these errors:

C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(18,14): error C2001: newline in constant [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.v cxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(19,14): error C2001: newline in constant [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.v cxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(18,14): error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 1 arguments [C :\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(20,4): error C2059: syntax error: ';' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxp roj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(662,2): error C2059: syntax error: 'if' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vc xproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(663,20): error C2065: 'it': undeclared identifier [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\c adabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(664,2): error C2059: syntax error: 'if' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vc xproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(664,53): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before '{' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\bui ld\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(664,53): error C2447: '{': missing function header (old-style formal list?) [C: \Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(672,6): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before '<<' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\bui ld\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(672,6): error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not s upport default-int [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(674,2): error C2059: syntax error: 'if' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vc xproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(676,22): error C2065: 'it': undeclared identifier [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\c adabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(676,24): error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(676,25): error C2440: 'initializing': cannot convert from 'initializer list' to 'int' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(676,16): message : The initializer contains too many elements [C:\Dev\cadabra2\ build\core\cadabra2.vcxproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(679,2): error C2059: syntax error: 'if' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vc xproj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(681,2): error C2059: syntax error: '}' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\build\core\cadabra2.vcx proj] C:\Dev\cadabra2\core\DisplayTerminal.cc(681,2): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before '}' [C:\Dev\cadabra2\buil d\core\cadabra2.vcxproj]

And after the installation is complete, I tried to run ctest, which gives that all 47 tests were failed. Therefore, I would like to know what was going on during the compilation.

The OS I am using is Windows 10, with Anaconda 2020.07(Conda 4.9.2), Texlive 6.3.2, and Visual Studio 16.8.5 installed. The exact process conducted was:

1. Doing git clone from the provided link
2. Executing C:\Dev\cadabra2\build>cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/Dev/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\Cadabra -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 ..
3. Executing cmake command shown in the link from very above, giving error on DisplayTerminal.cc mentioned before.