[SOLVED] Can’t launch runSofa

[Philippe]

Hello,

I’ve been using the guide to build sofa on windows, I’m using vs2013, and a compiled boost 1.60.
Everything’s been building fine without errors.

But when I try to launch runSofa, I get popup system errors with:

boost_system-vc120-mt-1_60.dll not found
boost_thread-vc120-mt-1_60.dll not found
Qt5OpenGL.dll not found

Altough the related entries are correctly set in cmake.

If I try to manually copy the required files in the bin/release folder (using compiled dependencies), I still get a system popup error telling me the application can’t launch (0xc000007b).

I have no log and no error on the cmd window.

My understanding is that the cmake file should have built (for Qt) or copied (for boost) what was necessary as long as it was set.

Any idea?

[Philippe]

Ok, I checked the dependancies, and found that the ones on the website were for 32bit windows.
So I set Qt path in PATH, set boost path in PATH also. I’m now using the 64 bits version.

However, at launch, I now get:
“le point d’entrée de procédure
?glGetTexLevelParameteriv@QOpenGLFunction ….. est introuvable dans Qt5OpenGL.dll”

So I guess the Qt version you’re using and the qt version you’re linking on the website are different.

[Guillaume]

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for your report.
I will add the “add Qt and Boost to your PATH” instruction in the documentation.

What is the Qt version you’re using ?

So I guess the Qt version you’re using and the qt version you’re linking on the website are different.

What do you mean ?

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Philippe]

Hey,

I used the version linked in the guide, so msvc2013_64-5.5.1 to no avail
Then, I used a previous opengl version: msvc2013_64_opengl-5.3.0 and it got me further.

I hit some problems with cmake, namely on Qt5GuiConfigExtras.cmake which made an error because of glu32. So I looked it up and it seems you need Windows SDK. I’ve got 8.1 but I guess any recent version is ok. Added set (CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Lib/winv6.3/um/x64") to said cmake file.

Then… While building, hit 2 errors in qdatetime.h related to min/max stuff. So I added /DNOMINMAX to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS. Everything built ok.

At launch, I was greated with a cmd error: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows"
It seems that even tough Qt path is set, I still have to copy Qt5Core.dll, Qt5Gui.dll and Qt5Widgets.dll

So… yeah. It finally works. I don’t know if some of these errors are specific to my config, but it seems Qt5OpenGl is needed, and the version linked in some case doesn’t have it. I don’t know if there’s another workaround (that plus all the cmake stuff to add).

[Guillaume]

Hi Philippe,

Sorry for the very delayed answer.

Thank you very much for all this feedback, it helped a lot!
I updated SOFA Documentation and will keep this topic as a reference.

However, I still don’t understand why you were having QOpenGL problems with a VS2013_64bit + Qt_5.5.1 + SOFA_15.12 configuration since I have exactly the same one here and everything works fine…
Did you unzip the external libraries folders include/, lib/ and licences/ (containing GLEW and GLUT dlls) in your sources?

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Zahra]

Hi Guillaume,

I also have the same problem. I followed the documentation for building sofa. I am using Win 7, 64 bits- VS 2013- Qt 5.6, boost 1.6 and cmake 3.6.2. I also unzipped the external libraries folders into the source folder.

There is no error in cmake. The project is built without any error, but I can not launch Runsofa and Modeler. When I try to launch Modeler I receive this error :

boost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_60.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

[Guillaume]

Hi Bnk,

Did you add Boost in your PATH variable?
It should be something like your_boost_path\boost_1_60_0\lib64-msvc-12.0

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Zahra]

Hi Guillaume,

Yes, I added it. After the configuration, all paths relative to boost (including BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR) are truly added, except one for “Boost_DIR”. I added its path again, but after configuring, it again shows “Boost_DIR-NOTFOUND”.

Any way, it is mentioned that SOFA includes miniboost, but without installing boost, cmake asks for installing it.

Thanks for your help in advance,
Zahra

[Guillaume]

It is normal for Boost_DIR, we don’t use this variable in SOFA.
MiniBoost is still here but will be removed soon so you need to have your own Boost.

runSofa.exe should be able to get boost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_60.dll if Boost is in your PATH.
Try copying boost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_60.dll in the bin/ folder of SOFA.

Guillaume.

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