[Sloved] Trouble building CloudCompare

[adriantaylor09]

Hey there,

I'm trying to build the CloudCompare project, and I'm having a bit of trouble, hopefully someone can help me out.

Here is my configuration:
Windows 7 x64
QT 5.3
CMake 3.1.0-rc1 (windows GUI)

Here are the steps I have taken:
Followed the wiki steps for generating the project using cmake.
Set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to C:/Program Files/CloudCompareProjects
Included qEDL and qDUMMY_PLUGIN
generated the project...

attempted to build the install project in VS2012 but returned a bunch of errors (63 to be precise).
I've attached my error log as a series of screenshots.

I'm a bit of a newbie at this so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Adrian

[daniel]

Hi,

as all errors seem to relate to moc files (Qt), it's maybe due to a miss-configuration of Qt in CMake. Can you show us the Qt configuration in CMake?

[adriantaylor09]

It turns out I hadn't set the path to qmake.exe in cmake. I fixed that, but still wasn't able to build the project successfully in visual studio.

Two screenshots attached, the first is my visual studio errors. The second is my cmake setup.

thanks for your help.
Adrian

[daniel]

Sorry for the late answer, I somehow missed your answer ;)

Do you use Qt with OpenGL? i.e. "Qt 5.3.2 for Windows 64-bit (VS 2013, OpenGL, 573 MB)" instead of "Qt 5.3.2 for Windows 64-bit (VS 2013, 575 MB)" for instance?

[adriantaylor09]

Yes, the name of the QT5 installer that I used is:
qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_64_opengl-5.3.2.exe

[daniel]

Well it's a bit weird because another user just reported having successfully compiled with the same setup as yours:
http://cloudcompare.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1026

I wonder what brings the glew definitions before CC... I bet it must be Qt 5.3.2 (I don't believe Visual 2013 links it by default?!). I'll have to test this setup on my side.

Meanwhile, your best bet is to use a slightly earlier version of Qt if possible (5.2 maybe?)

[adriantaylor09]

Ok, so I used QT 5.2.1 OpenGL version, and made some progress...

The CloudCompare project built successfuly in VS 2012 and created the correct files in the install directory. I've changed the debugging command of the Install project to point to the cloudcompare executable, and rebuilt. But when I tried to run the application I got the message:

cloudcompare error.png (11.46 KiB) Viewed 11007 times

This seems like a similar issue to:
http://cloudcompare.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1026

Also, if I hit the build and run command from Visual studio, I get this message:

cloudcompare error 2.png (19.55 KiB) Viewed 11007 times

Which is strange because I definitely have administrator access.
Any ideas?

[daniel]

For the second issue, it's simple: you have to 'set as startup project' the CloudCompare project instead of the ALL_BUILD one. Just right click on the CloudCompare project to choose the corresponding option.

For the first issue: do you see the 'Qt5Core.dll' file next to CloudCompare.exe in the installation directory? If not, when you compile the INSTALL project, do you see any error at the end in the output console? (when CMake actually copies the files).

cc_cmake_copy_error.jpg (41.7 KiB) Viewed 11006 times

If everything works, you should see something like:

cc_cmake_copy_no_error.jpg (101.44 KiB) Viewed 11006 times

And if there's an error (or if Qt5Core.dll doesn't appear in CMake output) where does QT5_ROOT_PATH points to in your CMake configuration?

[adriantaylor09]

There's no Qt5Core.dll in the installation directory,

There are some errors in my console:

cloudcompare error 4.png (132.33 KiB) Viewed 11006 times

And here is my QT setup in cmake:

cmake_01.png (95.94 KiB) Viewed 11006 times

I'm also getting a build error message in Visual Studio:

cloudcompare error 5.png (13.49 KiB) Viewed 11006 times

Thanks for your help so far, and I apologize for all the questions! as you can tell, I'm a bit of a newbie at this!

[daniel]

I think the only issue is that QT5_ROOT_PATH is wrongly set: it should be something like "C:/Qt/Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/msvc2012_64_opengl" (nothing more ;).

This way Cmake will found the Dlls, etc.