For building ccextractor using cmake follow steps below.. Step 1) Check you have right version of cmake installed. ( version >= 3.0.2 ) We are using CMP0037 policy of cmake which was introduced in 3.0.0 since we have tested our system only with cmake version 3.0.2, I would suggest to use 3.0.2 or higher version. Step 2) create a separate directory where you want to build the target. In Unix you can do it using following commands. ~> cd ccextractor ~> mkdir build Step 3) make the build system using cmake ~> cmake ../src/ Step 4) Compile the code. ~> make ~> make install Step 5) Use CCextractor as you would like If you want to build CCExtractor with FFMpeg you need to pass cmake -DWITH_FFMPEG=ON ../src/ If you want to build CCExtractor with OCR you need to pass cmake -DWITH_OCR=ON ../src/ If you want to build CCExtractor with Sharing and Translating service: cmake -DWITH_SHARING ../src/ Hint for looking all the things you want to set from outside cmake -LAH ../src/