[SOLVED] Missing lib files

[NerioDev]

I am trying to compile SOFA to be used in another engine.
After following the steps how to build SOFA on windows and generated the project files using CMake.

Opening the project:

Project already contains an item named ‘SofaBase’
Project already contains an item named ‘SofaFramework’

While compiling it with Visual Studio 2017 it gives me the error SofaBase.lib and SofaGui.lib.

Error LNK1181 cannot open input file ‘..\..\..\..\lib\Release\SofaBase.lib’

The SofaGui.lib I can drop but I do think I need the SofaBase.lib.
How can I let CMake generate the SofaBase.lib.

[marco.ferro]

Hi NerioDev,

Did you end up with a solution for the mentioned issue? I’m currently addressing exactly the same one (but with Visual Studio 2019) and I’m not able to build all the generated projects due to the missing generation of some .lib files like SofaBase.lib. In addition, at the opening of the project, apart from SofaBase and SofaFramework, I also got that same warning for SofaGui and SofaSimulation.

Did you find out the reasons for that and the way to solve it?
Thanks

Marco

[Times]

Hi @NerioDev and @marco-ferro ,

The solution that worked for me was to download the sofa binary (the one that’s already compiled) and then copy the missing libs from there to “..\lib\Release” in your build folder. Hope that helps

[Hugo]

Hi @NerioDev and @marco-ferro ,

Sorry for the very late reply.
Have the solution proposed by @akthetimes worked for you?

If it did not, I am sure @guillaumeparan could help on this.
If it did, I would be pleased to have some insights of your achievements. Anyway it could be nice to highlight them at the SOFA Week 2021 Symposium!

Best wishes,

Hugo

[Julien D.]

Hello you all,

I’ve tried to install sofa v21.06 on another computer that the one I’m using right now, with Windows 140 and using Visual Studio 2019 too !

I am going to try right now the solution proposed by @akTheTimes.

I also have an error while building in-tree sofaPython3 on Sofa v21, with still mission library files and also I have a pybind11 atritbute error.

Have a good day

[Julien D.]

Okie, so to install Sofa21.06, I have copied the files SofaBase.lib and SofaGui.lib from the binaries of sofa to my sofa/build folder.

It allows me to finish compiling sofa successfully !

However, when I try to compile SofaPython3, I also have to add SofaPython3.lib to sofa\build\lib\release and Core.lib in ..\sofa\build\lib\python3\site-packages\Sofa\libraries. But when I do this very last operation, I have lots of errors like

Erreur	LNK2019	symbole externe non résolu "__declspec(dllimport) void __cdecl sofapython3::PrintTo(struct sofapython3::PythonTestData const &,class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > *)" (__imp_?PrintTo@sofapython3@@YAXAEBUPythonTestData@1@PEAV?$basic_ostream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@@Z) référencé dans la fonction "public: virtual void __cdecl testing::internal::ParameterizedTestSuiteInfo<class anonymous namespace::Sofa>::RegisterTests(void)" (?RegisterTests@?$ParameterizedTestSuiteInfo@VSofa@?A0x5ffb74db@@@internal@testing@@UEAAXXZ)	Bindings.Sofa.Tests	D:\Utilisateurs\jducrocq\Documents\Librairies\sofa\build\applications\plugins\SofaPython3\bindings\Sofa\tests\PythonModule_Sofa_test.obj	1	

which i don’t understand at all !

I also still have the same error

Erreur	C2011	'pybind11::attribute_error' : redéfinition du type 'class'	Bindings.Sofa.Core	D:\Utilisateurs\jducrocq\Documents\Librairies\sofa\src\applications\plugins\SofaPython3\bindings\Sofa\src\SofaPython3\Sofa\Core\Binding_BaseData.cpp 37

which I don’t know how to solve either.

I hope that my experience would help others facing similar issues.

Have a great day !

[Julien D.]

Hello everyone,

On my side, all the SoifaPython3 and Sofa v21.06 installation on Windows 10 are solved !

@NerioDev , if you are still using Sofa, I recommend you to try out the solution, proposed by akTheTimes, it works perfectly fine for me.

Best wishes

[Author]

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