Unable to build blender

Question

I am trying to build blender so that I can use it directly from python and was going through this tutorial and I got stuck on the very first make command giving me

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
  Could NOT find PythonLibsUnix (missing: PYTHON_LIBRARY PYTHON_LIBPATH
  PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR PYTHON_INCLUDE_CONFIG_DIR)

I am using Ubuntu 14.04, with the system python installs (3.4.3 and 2.7.6). I am expected to specify manually these environment variables (if they are that)? Or it's something else? If the former, what are the standard paths for these?

Answer 1

For compilation, you have to point to Python3:

cmake -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/bin/python3.4m -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python3.4m ..