Error during compile FreeCAD on macOS

[HaisenZhao]

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Platform is 64-bit, set -D_OCC64
setting gcc options: -Wall -Werror -Wno-deprecated -pedantic-errors
Could NOT find Boost: missing: python27 (found /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.71.0"))
Could NOT find Boost: missing: python2 (found /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.71.0"))
CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake:117 (find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "boost_python"
  (requested version 1.71.0) with any of the following names:

    boost_pythonConfig.cmake
    boost_python-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "boost_python" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "boost_python_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "boost_python" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
  has been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake:182 (boost_find_component)
  /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:443 (find_package)
  src/Mod/Path/libarea/CMakeLists.txt:26 (find_package)

[ezzieyguywuf]

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Platform is 64-bit, set -D_OCC64
setting gcc options: -Wall -Werror -Wno-deprecated -pedantic-errors
Could NOT find Boost: missing: python27 (found /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.71.0"))
Could NOT find Boost: missing: python2 (found /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.71.0"))
CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake:117 (find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "boost_python"
  (requested version 1.71.0) with any of the following names:

    boost_pythonConfig.cmake
    boost_python-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "boost_python" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "boost_python_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "boost_python" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
  has been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/lib/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake:182 (boost_find_component)
  /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:443 (find_package)
  src/Mod/Path/libarea/CMakeLists.txt:26 (find_package)

@HaisenZhao it would be helpful if you would include some text with your error report, specifically what you have tried to resolve the problem.

Nonetheless, it seems pretty clear from the error message that cmake is unable to find a suitable version of boost-python.

Maybe you have python3 on your system? If so, you should try compiling FreeCAD with python3, something like:

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cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE="/path/to/python3"

You would need to replace "/path/to/python3" with the actual path to your python3 executable. I think the following should probably work to figure that out:

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which python

You can verify if you have python2 or python3 with

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python --version