MongoC installation CMake Error

[Ingrid Santana]

I'm installing MongoC on Google Cloud Plataform and I get this error:

ingrid@instance-1:~/mongo-c-driver-1.6.3/cmake-build$ cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF ..
-- Searching for sasl/sasl.h
--   Found in /usr/include
-- Searching for libsasl2
--   Found /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsasl2.so
-- Detected parameters: accept (int, struct sockaddr *, socklen_t *)
Current version (from VERSION_CURRENT file): 1.6.3
-- Compiling against Cyrus SASL
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
BSON
    linked by target "mongoc_shared" in directory /home/ingrid/mongo-c-driver-1.6.3
    linked by target "mongoc_static" in directory /home/ingrid/mongo-c-driver-1.6.3

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ingrid/mongo-c-driver-1.6.3/cmake-build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/ingrid/mongo-c-driver-1.6.3/cmake-build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

What can be the cause? There is something left to install? I really want this MongoC version (1.6.3) not the most recent one.

[A. Jesse Jiryu Davis]

Hi! In C Driver versions before 1.9.0, you had to install libbson and libmongoc as two separate steps using CMake. Try something like the following:

cd mongo-c-driver-1.6.3\src\libbson

cmake .

make && sudo make install # build and install libbson

cd ../..

cmake .

make && sudo make install # build and install libmongoc

If you don't want to install in the systemwide /usr/local, then try something like:

cd mongo-c-driver-1.6.3\src\libbson

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/my/path -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/my/path .

make && sudo make install # build and install libbson

cd ../..

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/my/path -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/my/path .

make && sudo make install # build and install libmongoc

Can you tell me why you don't want to use the latest driver?

[Ingrid Santana]

It worked!!! Thank you very much!!!

I don't want to change because I need to re-run a project I build when 1.6.3 was the most recent one and I know I use functions that don't exist anymore or are different. Updating those functions to the newer version of them would require more time than I have available