WHY SWITCH TO CMAKE I (Frederic Marchal) could not make the autotools work with msys+mingw. The choices reduced to: fight some more time with the autotools; wait until the msys port evolved or switch to cmake. Despite not being familiar with cmake, I decided to give it a chance and was surprised to come up within a few hours with something capable of compiling sarg. Now, that doesn't mean that the autotools are to be discarded on the spot. The two systems may coexist for some times especially since it is my first project with cmake and I'm sure it is done in an definitely autotoolistic way. Any comment about the usage of cmake is welcome. CONFIGURING SARG It is recommended to build sarg out of the source directory. It makes it easier to delete the build directory completely and restart the configuration from scratch if the first attempt doesn't produce the expected result. If you intent to use both cmake and the autotools, then you MUST build sarg out of the source directory as it will overwrite the original stub config.h in the source directory and you won't be able to use the autotools afterward. To build sarg out of source, create a build directory and cd into that directory. For instance, assuming your prompt is in the source directory, run mkdir build cd build Configure sarg with the command (assuming the case of a build directory one level below the sources of sarg): ccmake .. On the first run, it will report that the cache is empty. Press 'c' to configure the cache. Then ccmake will display an interface to select some configuration options. You should set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to the root of the directory to install sarg, for instance: /usr. You may also need to change SYSCONFDIR to /etc/sarg to install the configuration files at that location. Then press 'c' again to reconfigure sarg. Four more configuration variables appear. They are build from the paths you provided for the installation directories of the components. These are the absolute paths sarg will use to find the corresponding files. You then have the opportunity to adjust them if the final location of the files it not what is resolved with the installed configuration. Finally, press 'g' to generate the final configuration. Compile with make Install with make install CONFIGURATION VARIABLES These configuration variables are available on the first configuration run. CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - The root of the installation. default: /usr/local SYSCONFDIR - The directory with the configuration files relative to the installation prefix. default: etc/sarg BINDIR - The directory to copy sarg executable to. default: bin MANDIR - The directory to install the man page. default: share/man FONTDIR - The directory where the fonts for the reports are located. default: share/sarg/fonts IMAGEDIR - The directory containing the images to use in the reports. default: share/sarg/images SARGPHPDIR - The directory to install sarg-php. default: share/sarg/sarg-php ENABLE_EXTRA_PROTECT - Compile sarg with some GCC options to increase the security (tolerate no compilation warning, use the stack smashing protection, improved printf check, and so on). default: use standard warnings and no protection. These variables are initialized with the values of the above variables and are available on the second run. SYSCONFDIR_SOURCE - The full path to the configuration files to compile in sarg. default: CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/SYSCONFDIR FONTDIR_SOURCE - The full path to the fonts to compile in sarg. default: CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/FONTDIR IMAGEDIR_SOURCE - The full path to the images to compile in sarg. default: CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/IMAGEDIR There are other configuration variables whose documentation is visible during the configuration with ccmake. COMPILATION WITH MSYS+MINGW The autotools don't compile sarg with msys. You have to use cmake in an msys terminal. If cmake is not already installed on your system, download and uncompress the cmake sources in your home directory then run the following commands in an msys terminal: configure make make install Permanently add the path to cmake.exe by appending this line at the end of your profile file (c:/msys/1.0/etc/profile): export PATH="$PATH:/c/Program files/CMake/bin" Reopen the msys terminal or run the above command in the same terminal to register the new path. Get the sources of sarg and uncompress them in your home directory. Let's assume they are in a directory named "sarg". Create a separate build directory and change to that directory. For instance, assuming your prompt is in the sarg directory, run the following commands: mkdir build cd build Configure, compile and install sarg: cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" make make install This will compile sarg outside of the sources and install it in c:\Program Files\sarg. If the compilation fails because mkstemp cannot be found, ensure that the LIB and INCLUDE environment variables are set properly to the lib and include directories of mingw. For instance, type the following two commands and run make again: export LIB=c:/mingw/lib export INCLUDE=c:/mingw/include You can make them permanent by appending those two commands at the end of the profile file in c:/msys/1.0/etc/profile. CONFIGURING SARG TO RUN ON WINDOWS Cmake install a sample configuration file in c:/Program Files/sarg/etc/sarg/sarg.conf.exemple. Rename it as sarg.conf and edit it. You must change the following options: access_log c:/Program Files/sarg/log/access.log temporary_dir c:/Program Files/sarg/tmp output_dir c:/Program Files/sarg/www/squid-reports Adjust and create the directories according to your configuration. You may have to adjust other options to suit your needs. If sarg complains about a missing sort command, then you have to install the unxtools or run sarg from msys. If you want to run sarg from a regular dos prompt, download UnxUtils.zip from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ and uncompress it somewhere. Change the system path to include the usr\local\wbin directory before the Windows system directory. You must be sure that the unxutils are found before the windows native commands. To check this, open a dos prompt and type ls If it list the content of the directory, then the unxutils are found. Then type sort --help It should display the help of the sort command if the unxutils command is found first. If the windows command is found first, it will complain that the --help file cannot be found. Finally, if sort complains that it cannot write in the /tmp directory, either create that directory or set TMPDIR like this: set TMPDIR=c:/Program Files/sarg/tmp It may be set to your TMP or TEMP directory or the temporary directory you named in your sarg.conf file.