On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 4:56 AM 'Stefan Lang' via emscripten-discuss <
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> As an update to my question, I'd like to add that I now found out that
> apparently emcmake ignores or forgets all environment variables set within
> the shell, unless you specifically specify them on the emcmake command
> line, again! Armed with this knowledge, I was able to build FreeType and
> then Opencascade. However, I still run into same the problem when trying to
> build the webGL sample: for some reason, even passing the environment
> variables to the FreeType dirs doesn't help. Maybe other variables are
> needed here, but it's impossible to figure out what is missing.
>

Can you say what you mean by  "emcmake ignores or forgets all environment
variables set within the shell,"?    emcmake should behave identically to
cmake itself.. its really just a very small wrapper around cmake.  If you
notice any differences between the way cmake honors environment variables
and the way emcmake does please open bug on the issue tracker.


> I should point out that I haven't worked with *ix and makefiles for 30
> years, and although I got plenty of advice from colleagues, it's still
> possible I did not execute the build and install commands as expected by
> emscripten. If someone could post the exact commands needed to build and
> install a package with emscripten using the ubuntu bash shell (inside a
> Docker environment), that could be very helpful - maybe that would help me
> create the missing .cmake files?
>

Unfortunately there are many ways to build and consume libraries (and
header files) so there is no one answer (e.g. pkg-config, autoconf, cmake,
all do things differently).   One simple option is to create your own
install directory (like a mini sysroot) where you install all your
libraries and headers (via `make install` or some other method) and then
you can pass `-I/path/to/my/headers` and `-L/path/to/my/libraries` to
emcc.   Alternatively, you can install directly into the emscripten sysroot
which lives (by default) in `<emscripten_dir>/cache/sysroot`, in which case
they should be available without any extra `-I` or `-L` arguments.  Another
option is to use something like `vcpkg` which has (at least some) support
for emscripten already: https://vcpkg.io/en/index.html.    For what its
worth, I am hoping to simplify, improve and document the situation
regarding installing and consuming libraries.


> On Wednesday, 9 February 2022 at 10:29:55 UTC+1 Stefan Lang wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> My goal is to build the OpenCascade webGL sample on Windows. Its
>> description suggests installing and using emscripten to build the
>> webAssembly. I've installed the latest version following the instructions,
>> and I could build and run the provided mini examples just fine.
>>
>> I am having trouble using emcmake to build FreeType and OpenCascade
>> statically on Windows. The main issue is that emcmake insists on finding a
>> file called
>> freetypeConfig.cmake or
>> freetype-config.cmake
>> But these files don't exist. And if I can resolve this, I may run into
>> the same issue with OpenCascade which likewise doesn't provide any
>> *config.cmake files.
>>
>> cmake itself doesn't have this problem when I set freetype_DIR (as
>> suggested on the OpenCascade Forums), but apparently emcmake ignores this.
>>
>> I have already posted this at Opencascade forums, but there are already
>> various threads on this topic, and none of the suggestions seem to have any
>> effect when using emcmake.
>>
>> I should mention that Opencascade refers to an old version of FreeType
>> (2.5.5), but neither this nor the most current version (2.11.1) can be
>> built using emcmake!
>>
>> I have installed the latest version of emscripten, running Windows 10. I
>> would provide more info but I have tried so many different things and
>> changed so many parameters that I've lost track, and indeed may need to set
>> up everything from scratch again to make sure I haven't introduced side
>> effects. (Besides, I will eventually need to install from scratch again on
>> the other devs' machines)
>>
>> Therefore my first question to ask is: what version of emscripten should
>> I use for Windows (and how can I query the currently installed  version?),
>> and is there anything I specifically need to do beyond the descriptions
>> provided on the website with regard to Windows?
>>
>> Second question: I've already spotted various threads dealing with
>> building freetype. But as far as I can tell, most if not all were related
>> to building on Linux. Is there anything specific I need to watch out for
>> when building FreeType on Windows?
>>
>> Lastly: can I force emcmake not to search for the *config.cmake files?
>> Alternately, is there any recommended way how to create them on Windows? In
>> short: How can I build FreeType with emcmake on Windows when there's no
>> *config.cmake file?
>>
>> Thanks for reading this far,
>> Stefan
>>
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