Installing Cmake on a newly created python app service for dlib (CI delployment using github)

Question

Deploying my python web api from Github fails stating that Cmake is not installed.
After installing Cmake using the shell the error persists when deploying.
And for some reason Cmake is being removed whenever I stop and start the service again.
Is there any other way to add Cmake to the app service?

note: I am not using docker as I don't know how to.

Answer 1

Hello @Grmacjon-MSFT ,

I am trying to reply to your answer but for some reason the submit is not working. but here is the reply:

Thank you for sharing the post, however the post solves a docker container issue as the file shared is a docker file.

As for the list of commands I am using are as follows (executed on ssh):

$ apt-get install build-essential  
$ apt-get install libssl-dev  
$ wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.21.2/cmake-3.21.2.tar.gz  
$ tar xzf cmake-3.21.2.tar.gz  
$ cd cmake-3.21.2  
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/cmake  
$ make  
$ make install  
$ /opt/cmake/bin/cmake -version  

The exact error:

[19:58:37+0000] Running setup.py clean for dlib
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /tmp/8d968028825ffc6/antenv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-y5898t_l/dlib/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-y5898t_l/dlib/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-g7edkvbu
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-y5898t_l/dlib/
Complete output (8 lines):
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
package init file 'tools/python/dlib/init.py' not found (or not a regular file)
running build_ext

ERROR: CMake must be installed to build dlib

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ERROR: Failed building wheel for dlib

Thanks again,
Salah