Built SOFA on Windows 11 but cannot run 'runSofa' GUI; '-qglviewer' creation failed

[chz31]

Dear all,

I'm new to SOFA and just tried to build it on Windows. The cmake configuration and generation was successful and the Visual Studio 2022 appeared to be successful. It showed Build: 287 succeeded, 6 failed, 0 up-to-date, 2 skipped. I tried both "RelWithDebInfo" and "Release" Build.

"runSofa.exe" was in the bin folder, but I could not double-click opening it. I tried runSofa -g qglviewer' and runSofa -g qt , both showed GUI 'qglviewer' creation failed. and GUI 'qt' creation failed. It appears only 'batch' is available for '-g;', but only do runSofa would still computing 1000 iterations.

I checked the CmakeCache (attached) and found qt.plugin is on //Build the Sofa.GUI.Qt plugin. PLUGIN_SOFA_GUI_QT:BOOL=ON
CMakeCache.txt

The Qt version I used was 6.7.2.

Can someone give me some suggestions? Thank you very much!

Chi

[bakpaul]

Hello !

I can see that there are 6 failures. What are those failures ?

[chz31]

@bakpaul Hi Paul, thanks for the response!

I can't find an efficient way to locate the failures, it actually printed out >2000 errors (many are probably syntax errors), and here are some error messages from the VS2022 compiling output that might be relevant. I also attached the output file.
VS2022_build_output.txt

66>moc_camera.cpp
66>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\um\GL\glu.h(64,25): error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier 'gluErrorString'
66>moc_frame.cpp
66>(compiling source file 'moc_camera.cpp')
66>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\um\GL\glu.h(67,16): error C2371: 'APIENTRY': redefinition; different basic types

264>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\..\lib\Release\QGLViewer.lib'
287>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\lib\Release\Sofa.GUI.Qt.lib'
286>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\..\..\..\lib\Release\Sofa.GUI.Qt.lib'

289>SofaGeneral.vcxproj -> C:\sofa\sofa\build\bin\Release\SofaGeneral.dll
290>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\..\..\lib\Release\SofaGuiQt.lib'
290>Done building project "SofaGui.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
291>------ Build started: Project: SofaMiscCollision_test, Configuration: Release x64 ------
292>------ Build started: Project: SofaComponentAll, Configuration: Release x64 ------
285>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '..\..\..\lib\Release\Sofa.GUI.Qt.lib'
285>Done building project "SofaMatrix.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

I realized some directories are not found, including Boost_DIR (I believe I've set it during configuration), FFMPEG_EXEC, GTEST_LIBRARY, and GLEW_DIR.

I also tried to build SOFA on WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 on Windows 11 because I saw a thread that someone successfully built it, but cmake generate reported an error, and qglviewer still could not be opened. It is a bit odd that cmake actually was able to locate QmlIntegration_DIR.

CMake Error:
  Error evaluating generator expression:

    $<TARGET_PROPERTY:Qt6::QmlIntegration,_qt_module_has_private_headers>

  Target "Qt6::QmlIntegration" not found.

Chi

[chz31]

I also tried to build it on my personal Win11 laptop with QT 6.7.2. This time CMAKE kept looking for QT5 by generating a QT5_DIR even though the log indicated that it would use QT6. I have specified CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to QT6.7.2/msvc2019. Qt6 paths were correctly retrieved for other qt6 entries.

Here is the error:

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/sofa_build/sofa/build/lib/cmake/Sofa.HelperConfig.cmake:33 (find_package)
  C:/sofa_build/sofa/build/lib/cmake/Sofa.GLConfig.cmake:34 (find_package)
  Sofa/GUI/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:69 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Error at C:/Users/charl/SOFA/v24.06.00/lib/cmake/QGLViewer/QGLViewerConfig.cmake:35 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" with any of
  the following names:

    Qt5Config.cmake
    qt5-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "Qt5" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Qt5_DIR"
  to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "Qt5" provides a
  separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/Modules/FindQGLViewer.cmake:11 (find_package)
  Sofa/GUI/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:80 (find_package)

The log shows the directory contains a configuration file for qt5 CMakeCache.txt

[bakpaul]

Hello !

For me it is strange that your CMake is using the QGLViewerConfig.cmake. This certainly means that somehow, you've already compiled SOFA somewhere, or at least configured it and cmake found the produced QGLViewer. In Sofa/GUI/Qt/CMakeLists.txt you can see how QGLViewer is added :

    if(SOFA_GUI_QT_ENABLE_QGLVIEWER)
        find_package(QGLViewer)
        if(NOT QGLViewer_FOUND)
            add_subdirectory(libQGLViewer/QGLViewer)
        endif()
    endif()

This means that it first search for it and if it doesn't find it on your computer, only then it adds the folder containing the sources that is a subfolder of Sofa/GUI/Qt. So for any configuration on a computer without QGLViewer installed, this find_package should always fail quietly and then add the subdirectory. Here it seems that you are finding a /QGLViewerConfig.cmake file generated by an old cmake call. This is not normal, maybe you've added your folder C:/Users/charl/SOFA/v24.06.00/lib/cmake/ in your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH which is not a good idea, or this folder is an old compilation folder that is somehow known to CMake and thus should be deleted.

Tell me if this is the case.

[chz31]

Thanks! This is very strange. I believe I added CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:PATH=C:/Qt/6.7.2/msvc2019_64 rather than the binary according to CMakeCache.txt. I'll rebuild it again to see and pay attention to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.

[hugtalbot]

We hope SOFA is now working @chz31
by the way what was your SOFA version ?

[chz31]

Sorry for the late response! SofaPython3 works nice for me, and I could run a simple gravity simulation for landing a surgical plate onto a fracture site. I will actually use more of SlicerSOFA for SOFA functions in Slicer. I'll also rebuild SOFA with qt5 soon.