Can't generate with CMake on VS2010 even with libQGLviewer compiled

[yunyu]

Here's my QGLViewer properties (removed the prefix as the README told me to):

The DLL is generated in octovis\src\extern\QGLViewer. However, when attempting to generate a VS2010 project with CMake, I get:

[ahornung]

Looks like it can't find the compiled library (DLL) of QGLViewer. Did you recompile it successfully as described in the README?

[yunyu]

Yeah:

[ahornung]

According to your first screenshot QGLViewer is still ending up in the ...\debug\... path, so it's not accepting the removed prefixes (Did you change it after compilation? Try a make clean / removal of the CMake cache?)

[yunyu]

I tried copying all of the contents of \debug\ into the QGLViewer root, and also deleted the CMake cache. Unfortunately, I'm still having the same issue. Is there anything wrong with my VS project settings?

[ahornung]

Sorry, no idea since I don't have Windows with VS around. But you could still try the MinGW way, that creates fewer troubles in my experience.

[yunyu]

Okay, thanks for your help anyways.

[codingcasp]

Hi, I had some issues too with that but I got it working in the end. The easiest way for me was to actually copy the .dll and the .lib to Windows\System32\

For some reason cmake never was happy until i did that, even though they were in the PATH in another folder.

Maybe give it a try, it might save you a lot of trouble.

[yunyu]

I actually get the same error with the files copied to system32, and system32 is in my PATH.

[codingcasp]

I see that you have the QGLViewerd2.dll there. I think that's the debug verison and you probably need to run the Release build and copy those DLLs. I'll double check tomorrow at my office PC if my files have different names. Might explain everything :-)

Update : I just checked at the office. My files are indeed called QGLViewer2.lib, QGLViewer2.dll. Check if you only have the debug versions in your PATH and if so replace them and you're probably good to go!

[yunyu]

I moved the files as you suggested, and then removed the 2 from the filenames, and then I had issues with linking (it seemed to be attempting to link against some DLLs instead of the libs). I eventually got it working on VS2010: https://gist.github.com/yunyu/8f7c4d5a685c3daaaa8b

Definitely not the proper way, but hey, it works (I've gotten pointcloud conversion and the viewer working).