[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.

[Guillaume]

Hi Alex,

Yes, SOFA can deal with .obj and .stl files but you can’t open them directly in runSofa.
To play with .obj files, you have to import them within a scene (.scn or .xml) and then open the scene with runSofa.
To import your .obj in a scene, you have to use the adequate Loader component. Have a look at this page of the documentation and the share/sofa/examples/Components/loader examples in your SOFA folder.

Hope this helps,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Alex,

I confirm this problem.
Here is the fix you propose, correct me if I’m wrong.

void XMLPrintVisitor::processNodeBottomUp(simulation::Node* node)
{
    /*
    for (simulation::Node::ObjectIterator it = node->object.begin(); it != node->object.end(); ++it)
    {
        sofa::core::objectmodel::BaseObject* obj = it->get();
        if (    obj->toBaseInteractionForceField() == NULL
            &&  obj->toBaseInteractionConstraint() == NULL
            &&  obj->toBaseInteractionProjectiveConstraintSet() == NULL
            &&  obj->toBaseLMConstraint() == NULL
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            this->processObject(obj);
    }
    */

    --level;

    for (int i=0; i<level; i++)
        m_out << "\t";
    m_out << "</Node>"<<std::endl;

}

The lines commented were added by old commit #340cf88f with comment “CHANGE XMLPrintVisitor to put interaction classes after children nodes. Also reactivate full DataTypes tests in PairInteractionForceField::canCreate as a consequence.”.
I don’t know if this is still relevant.

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Wong,

This topic may help: https://www.sofa-framework.org/community/forum/topic/building-errors-of-v15-12-on-vs2012-win7-64bits

For the qdatetime.h problem, I fixed it by replacing return std::numeric_limits<qint64>::min(); with return (std::numeric_limits<qint64>::min)();

Hope this helps,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Weng,

I used qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2012_64_opengl-5.2.1 instead of qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2012_64-5.2.1.exe and it went well.

I just fixed the documentation about this 🙂

Hope this helps,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi all,

Thank you for this fix, I just added it in the documentation 😉

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for working with SOFA !

In CMake-GUI:
– Change Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY_DEBUG value to E:/boost_1_60_0/lib32-msvc-14.0/boost_thread-vc140-mt-gd-1_60.lib
– Change Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY_RELEASE value to E:/boost_1_60_0/lib32-msvc-14.0/boost_thread-vc140-mt-1_60.lib

I corrected this error in the documentation 😉

Hope this helps,
Guillaume

[Guillaume]

Thanks for your help here @tuanthienbk 🙂

Any progress on your side @Korcan ?
Do not hesitate to submit some patches if you fixed stuff in Sensable plugin, it would be highly appreciated !

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi cyril,

Did you follow step by step our documentation about how to build on Windows ?

Could you explain precisely what you did to obtain these errors ?

Concerning the Windows binaries, I think Hugo explained very well what you have to do to run them.
If the program is just flashing, you should try to run it in the command. To do this, go in the SOFA folder containing runSofa.exe, then click on File > Open command prompt. In the command prompt, simply type runSofa.exe and press Enter.

If something goes wrong, you should see some logs in the prompt 😉

Hope this helps,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi guys,

Sorry for the very late reply.
Indeed, v15.12 version of SofaCuda plugin does not compile on Windows.

However, this problem has already been fixed in the master branch by commits #eee8ff and #b7ee04.
Feel free to cherry-pick them 🙂

I will propose to integrate these fixes to v15.12.

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Ash,

Since Hugo provided an accurate answer and Alex confirmed, I mark this topic as Solved.
Feel free to write back if it is not.

Cheers,
Guillaume

[Guillaume]

Hi minmin,

I just deleted your duplicated topic. Please don’t do this.

qtSofa project seems pretty old and not maintained anymore. I had the same problems trying to build it so it’s not only you.

First, to be able to Configure/Generate with CMake, you have to activate PLUGIN_SOFASIMPLEGUI.

Then, to be able to compile, you will need to edit the CMakeLists.txt file. You can get some examples in Modeler and runSofa projects.

Hope this helps,
Let us know your steps !

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Ok let’s try to reproduce this.

What are you executing exactly: which scene, which plugins ?

@korcan: which demos ? Do you have any progress in solving this ?

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi @sergioteovit,

I edited your post to fix the highlighting problem 😉

Since I am using the pretty same configuration here and not facing this problem, it may come from your Boost installation. Personnally, I installed Boost 1.59.0 from the prebuilt binaries.

Could you tell us how you installed Boost ?
Did you use a prebuilt binary or compile everything yourself ?

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

I just installed Open Haptics SDK 3.4.0 to help in this topic but since I am not programming with Haptics I just tested building Sensable plugin.

If parentRoot is NULL, is is apparently not a GNode (that’s weird).
Are you working with DAGNode ?

Here is a more generic way to do the omniVisu Node creation :

parent = dynamic_cast<simulation::Node*>(this->getContext());

//sofa::simulation::tree::GNode *parentRoot = dynamic_cast<sofa::simulation::tree::GNode*>(this->getContext());
sofa::simulation::Node *parentRoot = parent;

//if (parentRoot->getFirstParent())
//  parentRoot = dynamic_cast<sofa::simulation::tree::GNode*>(parentRoot->getFirstParent());
if (parentRoot && parentRoot->getFirstParent())
    parentRoot = dynamic_cast<sofa::simulation::Node*>(parentRoot->getFirstParent());

nodePrincipal= parentRoot->createChild("omniVisu "+deviceName.getValue());

[Guillaume]

Hi min,

First, please edit your post and change the title for something more relevant.

Q1. runSofa IS using Qt for GUI and visualization. A non-GUI runSofa which does not need Qt can be built if CMake does not find Qt on your computer (explicit messages would appear) or if you choose it by disabling SOFAGUI_QT and SOFAGUI_QTVIEWER in CMake.

Q2. Please provide some error message for your runSofa execution problem.

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Korcan,

Glad you found some track in NewOmniDriver topic by yourself.

About your new error, what is the error exactly ?
Did you check the return value of the dynamic_cast ? parentRoot may be NULL.

EDIT : I just tried to replace

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if (parentRoot->getFirstParent())
    parentRoot = dynamic_cast<sofa::simulation::tree::GNode*>(parentRoot->getFirstParent());

and it went well 🙂

Cheers,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Nguyen,

I just removed your reply from the topic grasping tool and created a topic for you.
Please create your own topic to ask a new question.

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi min,

Quick fix :
1. Create a plugins folder into the bin folder of your SOFA build.
2. Copy paste C:\Qt\5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\plugins\platforms folder into the plugins folder you just created.

I will investigate more about this problem.

Regards,
Guillaume

[Guillaume]

Hi min,

Are you trying to build in the same directory as the source one ? It is recommended to create a build/ directory outside of SOFA sources.

Did you follow the documentation page Build on Windows ?

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Michel,

Very glad you succeeded ! 🙂

About the red in the dashboard: maintaining a working code on all platforms is an harassing work … that’s the reason why we strongly advise to use stable versions of SOFA (latest is 15.12).

About Csparse and Metis: that’s totally normal.

About your Eigen errors: what was your exact setup (Windows version, Visual Studio version, SOFA version, build type, …) ? That’s the first time we hear about these errors, I’d like to try to reproduce them.

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Let’s clarify things up !

0. You install Visual Studio, Qt5 and CMake on your computer.
1. You download SOFA 15.12 sources with git clone -b v15.12 git://scm.gforge.inria.fr/sofa/sofa.git.
2. You put the Windows dependencies in your new SOFA directory (it adds lib/ includes/ and licences/ folders to your SOFA sources).
3. You configure/generate SOFA in 32bit-Release with CMake-GUI.
4. You compile SOFA.
5. You put the dependencies for Win32 binaries in the bin/ folder of your new SOFA build directory.

There is no need to compile qt-everywhere-opensource at all.

Please tell me if every step is OK for you.

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Dear Michel,

That’s a fact, SOFA Documentation is not up to date. With the recent creation of SOFA Consortium, a better documentation is among the top priority task we have … as are the better website, better community support and better framework tasks.

So don’t worry, we are aware of this problem and very councerned about it.

A funny thing is that we actually plan to work on the documentation this week, starting with the “Main Principles” and “Getting Started” sections.

If you would like speed it up and help us, for exemple by listing what need to be updated for some pages, you are very welcome 🙂
So far, your suggestions about Qt versions and Boost dependencies are duely noted.

Thanks ! 🙂
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Sorry but I’m not sure I understood well your problem.

Did the could not find Qt plugin platform “windows” error appear on building time or on executing time ?

My related problem was happening on executing time so the bin/ solution may be innapropriate 🙁

Regards,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi @bushra,

Any news running Xitact examples ?
Let us know if everything went well 🙂

Cheers,
Guillaume.

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