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Software Development => PCL and PJSR Development => Topic started by: dgruber on 2014 February 11 11:35:31

Title: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: dgruber on 2014 February 11 11:35:31

We have installed Win 7 Prof and Framework.NET 4.5.1
We have installed the latest PI 1.8 1087
We have installed the latest PCL version
we produced the projectfile with Script Makefile
using this parameter:
C:/PCL/src/modules/processes/Sandbox
_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL=0
C:/PCL/include
C:/PCL/lib/windows/vc11/x86_64
C:/PCL/lib/windows/vc11/x86_64/PCL-pxi.lib

Makefile runs without errormessages


If we compile projectfile Sandbox.vcxproj with
MS VisualStudio 2012 we get the compile o.k for all modules
BUT we afterwards get the LINK-error messages:

Fehler   1   error LNK2038: Konflikt ermittelt für "_MSC_VER": Der Wert "1600" stimmt nicht mit dem Wert "1700" in SandboxInstance.obj überein.   C:\PCL\src\modules\processes\Sandbox\windows\vc11\PCL-pxi.lib(Console.obj)   Sandbox

it seems PCL-pxi.lib is compiled with an older compiler version?

Franz, Manfred and Gerald  :o

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: Juan Conejero on 2014 February 11 12:02:06

This is strange, since the PCL library has been built with Visual Studio 2012. Anyway, you can recompile PCL on your machine. Simply load the PCL.vcxproj project file from the src/PCL/windows/vc11 directory. Perhaps you'll have to change some project settings, but if your environment variables are well configured (in particular, PCLINCDIR and PCLLIBDIR64), you shouldn't need to change anything. Select the "Release | x64" configuration, press F7, and PCL will be rebuilt from source.

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: Carlos Milovic on 2014 February 11 12:06:26

The linker error usually shows when selecting the x32 architecture, or the debug option, in VS2012.

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: Juan Conejero on 2014 February 11 12:14:47

Ah yes, of course. 32-bit PCL development is no longer supported. All modules must be built for the x64 architecture.

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: bitli on 2014 February 11 12:32:26

I had tried (a little) to compile with VS2012. However I gave up as it was too long and complicated to find which property files has to be created where in that version of VS, just to set the PCLINCDIR etc...
I installed PCBSD in a virtual box and was able to compile there relatively quickly (when I realized that the instructions are wrong: you need gmake but clang). Not a solution for everybody but maybe developing in a VM  on BSD may be more convenient (if you are familiar with Unix) and avoid disturbing your main installation.
-- bitli

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: dgruber on 2014 February 11 12:44:14

Hi Juan!
Thanks for your fast help.
Recompiling the PCL.vcxproj  Project did the job.
Our version of the Sandbox.pxi(pxm).dll was created, could be integrated, and is
running properly.

Thanks

Franzi, Manfred and Gerald  :) :) :)

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: hvb356 on 2014 February 12 08:55:44

Hi Juan,

following your advise, VS 2013 (!) produced 59 errors when I compiled PCL.vcxproj:

Error    2    error C2535: 'pcl::RGBColorSystem::RGBColorSystem(const pcl::RGBColorSystem &)' : member function already defined or declared (..\..\AdaptiveLocalFilter.cpp)    C:\Program Files\PixInsight\PCL\include\pcl
\RGBColorSystem.h    1566    1    PCL

+ 59 other modules.

I pledge with a smile, that all parms have been checked and double checked several times. The same error popped up, when compiling the SandBox.

Any idea, what I'm doing wrong?

All the best

Hartmut

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: Carlos Milovic on 2014 February 12 09:05:50

Do you have VS 2012 installed? Upgrading the projects to VS2013 doesn't work. You should use 2012 tools to build the modules (they are automatically called within VS2013, if you instaled VS2012).

Title: Re: How to compile PCL Sandbox program with MS VC2012
Post by: hvb356 on 2014 February 12 09:35:52

Hi Carlos,

thank you. That's a helpful statement.

All the best

Hartmut