I am trying to build the allegro monolith library on ubuntu 22.04.

I have followed the instructions from SiegeLord here:

https://github.com/liballeg/allegro_wiki/wiki/Install-Allegro-from-source-on-Ubuntu

I can build Allegro successfully following the instructions exactly, but I want to build the monolith.

I got it to work a few years ago and I am not sure what I am doing differently this time.

So what I do differently to create the monolith is:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

after these commands I run:

ccmake ..

Then change:
WANT_MONOLITH ON

but when I type 'c' and configure I get this error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1238 (install):
install TARGETS given target "allegro" which does not exist.

In my notes from years ago I used ccmake to turn off many things I did not need. Now when I try that I get various errors about targets that don't exist.

What am I doing wrong?

Ok I will experiment with that, Thanks.

I am not familiar with cmake and ccmake at all.

I just tried to blindly follow the instructions, but when something unexpected happened I had no idea what to do.

I started from scratch a few times. Deleted everything.

The next time I try, will just use one or the other.

Edit:

I got it to work:

I could not get ccmake to work at all.
If I run it first, it comes up blank and says 'empty cache'
If I run 'cmake ..' then 'ccmake ..' I get all the options, but get the missing target errors.

So I just use cmake and pass it all the options.

Something else I was doing wrong:
Do not run cmake more than once! I get the same missing target errors doing that.

Funny thing, from my notes from a few years ago, I was using ccmake and it worked.

Anyway I like passing the options to cmake better tham manually setting them with ccmake.

Here is the final procedure than worked for me:

git clone https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5.git
cd allegro5
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWANT_MONOLITH=ON -DWANT_D3D=OFF -DWANT_D3D9EX=OFF -DWANT_DEMO=OFF -DWANT_DLL_TLS=OFF -DWANT_DOCS=OFF -DWANT_DOCS_HTML=OFF -DWANT_DOCS_INFO=OFF -DWANT_DOCS_MAN=OFF -DWANT_DOCS_PDF=OFF -DWANT_DOCS_PDF_PAPER=OFF -DWANT_NATIVE_IMAGE_LOADER=OFF -DWANT_OPENAL=OFF -DWANT_VIDEO=OFF -DWANT_VORBIS=OFF -DWANT_IMAGE_FREEIMAGE=OFF -DWANT_IMAGE_JPG=OFF -DWANT_IMAGE_PNG=OFF -DWANT_IMAGE_WEBP=OFF -DWANT_LUAJIT=OFF -DWANT_MEMFILE=OFF -DWANT_MODAUDIO=OFF -DWANT_EMBED=OFF -DWANT_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWANT_FLAC=OFF -DFREETYPE_BZIP2=OFF -DFREETYPE_HARFBUZZ=OFF -DFREETYPE_PNG=OFF -DFREETYPE_ZLIB=OFF -DWANT_ALSA=OFF -DWANT_AQUEUE=OFF -DWANT_FRAMEWORKS=OFF -DWANT_GLES3=OFF -DWANT_MP3=OFF -DWANT_MUDFLAP=OFF -DWANT_OPENSL=OFF -DWANT_OPUS=OFF -DWANT_OSS=OFF -DWANT_PHYSFS=OFF -DWANT_POPUP_EXAMPLES=OFF -DWANT_PYTHON_WRAPPER=OFF -DWANT_RELEASE_LOGGING=OFF -DWANT_SHADERS_D3D=OFF -DWANT_STATIC_RUNTIME=OFF -DWANT_TESTS=OFF -DWANT_TREMOR=OFF -DWANT_WAIT_EVENT_SLEEP=OFF -DSTRICT_WARN=OFF -DWANT_ACODEC_DYNAMIC_LOAD=OFF ..
make
sudo make install