Can‘t install GroundingDINO in other project

[Cadodo97]

I am using:

• Windows 11
• Torch version: 2.3.0
• Cuda Toolkit version: 11.8
• Python 3.10.11

If a follow the official guide to install GroundingDINO in a new and empty directory the installation process it's fine and GroundingDINO works.

My probem is when I try to install GroundingDINO as a part of a more complicated project.. I follow the same steps of the Official Repo and the versioning is the same of above.

Printed error is:

C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\sim_suction_policy\GroundingDINO\groundingdino\models\GroundingDINO\csrc\vision.cpp : fatal error C1083: Non Š possibile aprire il file generato dal compilatore: '': Invalid argument
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 1900, in _run_ninja_build
    subprocess.run(
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 526, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['ninja', '-v']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
  File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\sim_suction_policy\GroundingDINO\setup.py", line 206, in <module>
    setup(
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 117, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 183, in setup
    return run_commands(dist)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 199, in run_commands
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 954, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 950, in run_command
    super().run_command(command)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 973, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\develop.py", line 35, in run
    self.install_for_development()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\develop.py", line 112, in install_for_development
    self.run_command('build_ext')
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 316, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 950, in run_command
    super().run_command(command)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 973, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_ext.py", line 98, in run
    _build_ext.run(self)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 359, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 843, in build_extensions
    build_ext.build_extensions(self)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 476, in build_extensions
    self._build_extensions_serial()
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 502, in _build_extensions_serial
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_ext.py", line 263, in build_extension
    _build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 557, in build_extension
    objects = self.compiler.compile(
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 815, in win_wrap_ninja_compile
    _write_ninja_file_and_compile_objects(
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 1573, in _write_ninja_file_and_compile_objects
    _run_ninja_build(
  File "C:\Users\Proprietario\Desktop\Donato\python_project\Sim-Suction-API\inference_env\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 1916, in _run_ninja_build
    raise RuntimeError(message) from e
RuntimeError: Error compiling objects for extension
**[end of output]**

This error looks like any other issues, but I follow the same steps used to install GroundingDINO in an empty directory.

Does anyone have any ideas? Will be really appreciated