Errors While Building Sofa Python 3

[Shivam]

Hello,

I am new to Sofa. I am trying to build Sofa along with SofaQtQuick plugin. I have followed the instructions given here: https://github.com/SofaDefrost/SofaQtQuick

However, I am facing some errors while configuring Sofa Python 3 on cmake. The following directories cannot be located:
SofaBaseTopology
SofaBaseUtils
SofaBaseVisual

The errors in cmake gui can be seen in the image.

The configuration process in cmake-gui can be seen here:

Install prefix: /home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/build/install
Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3.8 (found version "3.8.5") 
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:225 (message):
  Deprecated components are activated (SOFA_WITH_DEPRECATED_COMPONENTS
  variable is ON)

Adding module SofaSparseSolver
SofaSparseSolver: using built-in metis library
Adding module SofaPreconditioner
Adding module SofaHaptics
Adding module SofaValidation
Adding module SofaDenseSolver
Adding module SofaNonUniformFem
Adding module SofaOpenglVisual
Adding module SofaExporter
SofaPython disabled, will not compile python bindings.
CMake Deprecation Warning at SofaAdvanced/CMakeLists.txt:15 (message):
   SofaAdvanced is deprecated.
   You should now explicitely find (find_package) and link (target_link_library) each module you need within: 
   SofaNonUniformFem

Adding collection SofaComponentAll
SofaTest: optional dependency SofaPython NOT found, Python_test won't be built
Adding plugin CImgPlugin
CImgPlugin: TIFF Image Format enabled
CImgPlugin: JPEG Image Format enabled
CImgPlugin: PNG Image Format enabled
Adding plugin SofaMiscCollision
SofaMiscModule: build all maintained sofa components.
SofaMiscCollision: optional dependency SofaSphFluid not found de-activing: <SpatialGridPointModel>
Adding application Modeler
CMake Deprecation Warning at applications/projects/Modeler/CMakeLists.txt:1 (message):
  Modeler project is deprecated

Modeler executable: Using Qt5
CMake Warning at SofaKernel/SofaFramework/SofaMacros.cmake:1198 (message):
  Deprecated macro.  Use 'sofa_add_targets_to_package' instead.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  applications/projects/Modeler/exec/CMakeLists.txt:20 (sofa_install_targets)

Adding application runSofa
Write Plugin list at /home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/build/lib/plugin_list.conf.default
Adding external directory: plugins (/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/plugins)
SofaPython3 is compiled as a subproject to the external project 'Sofa'.
Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3.8 (found suitable version "3.8.5", minimum required is "3.7") 
-- Python version: 3.8.5
-- Python executable: /usr/bin/python3.8
-- Python include dirs: /usr/include/python3.8
-- Python libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so
-- Python user site: /root/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
-- pybind11 version: 2.4.3
-- pybind11 config: /usr/lib/cmake/pybind11/pybind11Config.cmake
Adding plugin SofaPython3
Adding plugin SofaPython3_Bindings
CMake Error at /home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/plugins/SofaPython3/bindings/Sofa/src/SofaPython3/Sofa/Core/CMakeLists.txt:71 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindSofaBaseVisual.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this
  project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
  "SofaBaseVisual", but CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "SofaBaseVisual"
  with any of the following names:

    SofaBaseVisualConfig.cmake
    sofabasevisual-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "SofaBaseVisual" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "SofaBaseVisual_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "SofaBaseVisual" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
  has been installed.

Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

I tried to give path of the directories explicitly as follows:

SofaBaseTopology:

/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/sofa/SofaKernel/modules/SofaBaseTopology

SofaBaseUtils:

/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/sofa/SofaKernel/modules/SofaBaseUtils

SofaBaseVisual:

/home/shivam/Softwares/runSofa2/sofa/SofaKernel/modules/SofaBaseVisual

But the error still remains the same.
It shall be very helpful if anyone can point out what am I missing.

[Hugo]

Dear @shivamkp29

The SofaQtQuick was developed by an engineer @bmarques but the projet is over now. There is unfortunately no one for now active on this project for now.

You can find a working version using the dedicated “sqq_binaries” branch for:
– SOFA repository “SofaDefrost”, branche sqq_binaries
– SoftRobots: SofaDefrost, branche sqq_binaries
– SofaPython3: sofa-framework, branche sqq_binaries
– SofaQtQuick: SofaDefrost, branche sqq_binaires

Best,

Hugo

[Hugo]

Moreover note, that the first official release of SofaPython3 with SOFA will be done in the upcoming release v20.12. Before, SofaPython3 was a alpha version.

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