Building Box2D with cmake on Ubuntu 10.10

Installed Box2D tar.gz from Box2D.org, then installed cmake tar.gz from cmake's website. Compiled cmake fine using the bootstrap, then make, then make install. Ran into a problem with I tried to use cmake in the directory ~/Box2Dv1.x/Box2D/Build - the problem was the CMakeCache.txt file in that directory had unresolved values for OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR (and the next two OPENGL-related variables). After searching for hours, I came across the advice of a saint who recommended installing three mesa dev tools: libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev, and mesa-common-dev. Rebooted and it progressed from there.

However, ran into an error at 55% of the make:
In file included from /home/michael/Box2D_v2.1.2/Box2D/freeglut/freeglut_callbacks.c:29:
/home/michael/Box2D_v2.1.2/Box2D/freeglut/freeglut_internal.h:111: fatal error: X11/extensions/XInput.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [freeglut/CMakeFiles/freeglut_static.dir/freeglut_callbacks.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [freeglut/CMakeFiles/freeglut_static.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


This was fixed by installing libxi-dev, on advice from here. Ran make with no further problems, then make install. Woo.