CMake "cmake --list-presets" results in "source directory does not exist"

Question

I'm trying to get a CMake project to build in a Gitlab runner.

running cmake version 3.18.4

I'm following this documentation from microsoft

I'm running this command in my source directory where a CMakePresets.json file is present:

cmake --list-presets

I'm expecting a list of presets to show up in the command line like this:

Available configure presets:

  "x64-debug"   - x64 Debug
  "x64-release" - x64 Release
  "x86-debug"   - x86 Debug
  "x86-release" - x86 Release

Instead I get the following: the "/--list-presets" folder does indeed not exist nor should it.

I have tried manually specifying the source directory as seen in this question/issue changing my command into:

cmake -S . --list-presets

But it yields the same result.

Answer 1

I run this in a gitlab runner for CI/CD. I run the following command to install cmake:

apt-get install cmake

this installs cmake 3.18.4 which does not support presets. Visual studio which I use for developing run 3.24 which does support and thus uses presets.

I fixed this by running the following script which I got here

    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install gpg wget
    - wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | gpg --dearmor - | tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
    - echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ focal main' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list >/dev/null
    - apt-get update

After which you can get the latest cmake by running:

apt-get install cmake