Unable to build blender

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

This will solve your issue

sudo apt-get build-dep  blender

similar compile time dependency problems for other applications can be solved by doing this build-dep trick

By cherry picking from the list of packages above cmd wants to install, you probably need just these :

sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev libpython3.4-dev

although allowing the build-dep cmd to run will jack up otherwise disabled features you may want in blender

enjoy