Building PlusLib

[D49ll]

Hi,

Im going to develop a new hardware for PlusToolkit. Im new to this library and currently trying to build the barebones project, i.e. no PLUS_USE. I'm following the step-by-step instructions for windows build.

However, I cannot get it to successfully build. After some troubleshooting it seems that there is a problem with the qt version. In the guide it is stated that the stable build uses qt4.8, qt5.5 or qt5.7 but vtk9.1 requires qt5.9.

2>CMake Warning at CMake/vtkModule.cmake:4397 (find_package):
2>  Could not find a configuration file for package "Qt5" that is compatible
2>  with requested version "5.9".
2>
2>  The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:
2>
2>    C:/Qt_msvc/qt-5.5.0-x64-msvc2013-rev0/qt-5.5.0-x64-msvc2013-rev0/lib/cmake/Qt5/Qt5Config.cmake, version: 5.5.0
2>
2>Call Stack (most recent call first):
2>  GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:43 (vtk_module_find_package)
2>
2>
2>CMake Error at CMake/vtkModule.cmake:4403 (message):
2>  Could not find the Qt5 external dependency.
2>Call Stack (most recent call first):
2>  GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:43 (vtk_module_find_package)

In order to fix this i installed qt5.9 and tried to build again. This time the error message above disappeared. However, vtk did not finish building. I was wondering about this line "Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170". Does it mean that it uses mvsc v170 instead of v143? I've specified in the properties that the solution should use v143. The error message when using qt5.9 is as follows:

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
2>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(249,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for 'C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-mkdir.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-download.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-update.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-patch.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-configure.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-build.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\9408ea93edf1402a37ac820c99d9f2bc\vtk-install.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\4c816bdbdd87344640f45956bcb08def\vtk-complete.rule;C:\D\PlusB-bin\CMakeFiles\5b650b1d95b728a253eb9a4c71a7db37\vtk.rule;C:\D\PlusBuild\CMakeLists.txt' exited with code 1.
2>Done building project "vtk.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

I also have this error message repeating for some other builds, but ive concluded this is due to vtk not building, is that correct?

7>CMake Error at src/CMakeLists.txt:3 (FIND_PACKAGE):
7>  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "VTK" with any of
7>  the following names:
7>
7>    VTKConfig.cmake
7>    vtk-config.cmake
7>
7>  Add the installation prefix of "VTK" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "VTK_DIR"
7>  to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "VTK" provides a
7>  separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

[adamrankin]

I would use 5.15+

[D49ll]

This worked perfectly, thanks!