Error: failed find MOOSE executable 'cat-opt'

[adrianmurenzi]

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Issue or question about MOOSE

Trying to build and test MOOSE application named cat, was following instructions, the

cd ~/projects/moose/test
make -j 6

tests runs had no issue but when I try to build the application using

cd ~/projects/cat          
make -j 6
./run_tests -j 6

Returns two issues:
/home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/modules/modules.mk:10: *** missing separator. Stop.

ERROR: Failed to find MOOSE executable 'cat-opt'

When I made another application called dog it returned the two same messages about module mk 10 and missing dog-opt.

Conda is up to date, All checks are passed when running """moose/scripts/diagnostics.sh"""

Here is the Compiler:

CC_FOR_BUILD=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc
CC=mpicc

Any and all help would be appreciated, sorry for any inconvenience and lack of understanding this is my first time with MOOSE, C++, Github, everything quite frankly. Solutions given in step by step guides would help because of my lack of experience

(Optional) code in question / simulation log / errors

No response

Encountering Errors? Please include diagnostic output

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Influential Environment Variables

CC_FOR_BUILD=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc
CC=mpicc
CFLAGS=   -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt  -ffunction-sections -pipe -isystem /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include 
CONDA_BUILD_CROSS_COMPILATION=
CONDA_BUILD_SYSROOT=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/sysroot
CONDA_CHANNEL=https://conda.software.inl.gov/public
CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV=moose
CONDA_EXE=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/bin/conda
CONDA_PREFIX_1=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge
CONDA_PREFIX_2=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose
CONDA_PREFIX_3=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge
CONDA_PREFIX_4=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose
CONDA_PREFIX_5=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge
CONDA_PREFIX=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose
CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(moose) 
CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/bin/python
CONDA_SHLVL=6
CONDA_TOOLCHAIN_BUILD=x86_64-conda-linux-gnu
CONDA_TOOLCHAIN_HOST=x86_64-conda-linux-gnu
CPPFLAGS=   -isystem /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include 
CPP_FOR_BUILD=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cpp
CPP=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cpp
CURL_CA_BUNDLE=
CXXFILT=x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-c++filt
CXXFLAGS=-fvisibility-inlines-hidden -fmessage-length=0    -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt  -ffunction-sections -pipe -isystem /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include  -std=c++17
CXX_FOR_BUILD=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-c++
CXX=mpicxx
F77=mpif77
F90=mpif90
F95=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-f95
FC_FOR_BUILD=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-gfortran
FC=mpif90
FFLAGS=   -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt  -ffunction-sections -pipe -isystem /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include 
FI_PROVIDER=tcp
HDF5_DIR=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose
LDFLAGS_LD=-O2 --sort-common --as-needed -z relro -z now --disable-new-dtags --gc-sections --allow-shlib-undefined -rpath /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -rpath-link /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib
LDFLAGS=-Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--disable-new-dtags -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib 
LD=x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-ld
LIBMESH_DIR=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/libmesh
MOOSE_JOBS=6
MOOSE_NO_CODESIGN=true
PATH=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin:/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin:/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/wasp/bin:/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/wasp/bin
PETSC_DIR=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/petsc
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=
SSL_CERT_FILE=
WASP_DIR=/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/wasp
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Compiler(s) (CC CXX FC F77 F90):

which $CC; /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/mpicc
$CC --version; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc (conda-forge gcc 14.3.0-17) 14.3.0
$CC -show; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -lmpi

which $CXX; /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/mpicxx
$CXX --version; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-c++ (conda-forge gcc 14.3.0-17) 14.3.0
$CXX -show; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-c++ -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -lmpicxx -lmpi

which $FC; /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/mpif90
$FC --version; GNU Fortran (conda-forge gcc 14.3.0-17) 14.3.0
$FC -show; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-gfortran -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -lmpifort -lmpi

which $F77; /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/mpif77
$F77 --version; GNU Fortran (conda-forge gcc 14.3.0-17) 14.3.0
$F77 -show; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-gfortran -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -fallow-argument-mismatch -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -lmpifort -lmpi

which $F90; /home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/mpif90
$F90 --version; GNU Fortran (conda-forge gcc 14.3.0-17) 14.3.0
$F90 -show; x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-gfortran -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -Wl,-rpath,/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -I/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/include -L/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/lib -lmpifort -lmpi

OK
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Python Sanity Checks

/usr/bin/env python3 --version; (reporting as: Python 3.14.0) matches
which python3 python;

/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/python3 --version; == Python 3.14.0
/home/neza-murenzi/miniforge/envs/moose/bin/python --version; == Python 3.14.0

OK
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Python Modules (TestHarness, run-ability)

OK
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MOOSE Repository/Conda Version Checks

              Installed     Required

OK

checks PASSED

[GiudGiud]

Hello

Did you modify the Makefile for cat?
Is it a new application or an old one?

[adrianmurenzi]

Just an empty line, shall I keep the $info command?

Lines 8 to 11

# Makefile.
$(info    MODULE_NAME is $(MODULE_NAME))

ifneq (,$(MODULE_NAME))

[GiudGiud]

this looks fine
what does it give when you make now?

also you can use back quotes ` to format things in your posts

[adrianmurenzi]

This is what was given for ~/projects/cat$ make -j 6 :

MODULE_NAME is 
Rebuilding symlinks in /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/header_symlinks
Creating Unity Directory /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/unity_src
Creating Resource file /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/cat.yaml
Checking if header needs updating: /home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/framework/include/base/MooseRevision.h...
Creating Unity /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/unity_src/base_Unity.C
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/unity_src/base_Unity.C...
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/src/main.C...
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/test/src/base/CATTestApp.C...
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/framework/build/unity_src/executors_Unity.C...
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/framework/build/unity_src/fviks_Unity.C...
Compiling C++ (in opt mode) /home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/framework/build/unity_src/indicators_Unity.C...
In file included from /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/unity_src/base_Unity.C:2:
/home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/src/base/CATApp.C:4:10: fatal error: ModulesApp.h: No such file or directory
    4 | #include "ModulesApp.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [/home/neza-murenzi/projects/moose/framework/build.mk:166: /home/neza-murenzi/projects/cat/build/unity_src/base_Unity.x86_64-conda-linux-gnu.opt.lo] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[GiudGiud]

This does not seem right either.
Do you have anything important in this moose folder?
If not can you please delete it and re-clone it?

[adrianmurenzi]

No i dont, I've deleted the moose folder and I'm cloning it now the cloning is going slowly ill respond if there's any issues

[adrianmurenzi]

That solved it, I was able to make a different application and passed the make and test. Thank you so much for your help and patience and sorry for being a bit stupid haha