so i have been reading accelerated c++ practical programming and i opened kdevelop to make the framed greeting that is in the book as a practice c++ program and this is what i type
// say what standard-library names we use
using std::cin; using std::endl;
using std::cout; using std::string;


int main()
{
// ask for the person's name
cout << "Please enter your first name: ";

// read the name
string name;
cin >> name;

// build the message that we intend to write
const string greeting = "Hello, " + name + "!";

// the number of blanks surrounding the greeting
const int pad = 1;

// the number of rows and columns to write
const int rows = pad * 2 + 3;
const string::size_type cols = greeting.size() + pad * 2 + 2;

// write a blank line to separate the output from the input
cout << endl;

// write `rows' rows of output
// invariant: we have written `r' rows so far
for (int r = 0; r != rows; ++r) {

string::size_type c = 0;

// invariant: we have written `c' characters so far in the current row
while (c != cols) {

// is it time to write the greeting?
if (r == pad + 1 && c == pad + 1) {
cout << greeting;
c += greeting.size();
} else {

// are we on the border?
if (r == 0 || r == rows - 1 ||
c == 0 || c == cols - 1)
cout << "*";
else
cout << " ";
++c;
}
}

cout << endl;
}

return 0;
}

and i get this error when i try to build it
/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/build> /usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local '/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/'
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_greeting_COMPILER_ENV_VAR
CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
Missing variable is:
CMAKE_greeting_COMPILER
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/build/CMakeFiles/2.8.11.2/CMakegreetingCompiler.cmake
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:CMakegreetingInformation.cmake
CMake Error: CMAKE_greeting_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (install):
install TARGETS given target "greeting" which does not exist in this
directory.


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
*** Failure: Exit code 1 ***


please help, i am not sure if it is a cmake or kdevelop issue, but i have re-installed cmake and kdevelop and i made sure i have all the libraries and ect.....

To determine that, run cmake from command line exactly as kdevelop does. If you get the same error (which is what I suspect) it's a problem with your setup; if it works there, KDevelop is at fault.

Greetings,
Sven

thanks scummos for the reply, assuming i did it properly this is the result of running cmake via the konsole

root:/home/nate/projects # cmake framed greeting
CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/nate/projects

so i am assuming that i have an issue with kdevelop since i didnt get an error with cmake in the konsole

Try running exactly what KDevelop runs ( /usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local '/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/' ).
Does that fail too?

i tried running it that way and this is what i got

/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/build> /usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local '/home/nate/projects/framed greeting/'
*** Failure: /usr/bin/cmake has failed to start ***

Huh? Where does that message come from? Does /usr/bin/cmake exist?

i typed it into the konsole and that was the error message i got,
and this is what i got when i cnf cmake, it does show that is installed

root:/home/nate # cnf cmake

Program 'cmake' is present in package 'cmake', which is installed on your system.

Absolute path to 'cmake' is '/usr/bin/cmake'. Please check your $PATH variable to see whether it contains the mentioned path.

i think my system is a little buggy, going to re-install cmake and kdevelop and see if that fixes the problem.