During installation of sofa in Cmke-gui I have got following Configuration error

[Jake]

Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.19041.
Install prefix: C:/sofa/build/install
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:221 (message):
Deprecated components are activated (SOFA_WITH_DEPRECATED_COMPONENTS
variable is ON)

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
Could NOT find Boost (missing: system filesystem program_options) (found
version “1.75.0”)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2344 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
SofaKernel/SofaFramework/SofaMacrosConfigure.cmake:328 (find_package)
SofaKernel/modules/SofaHelper/CMakeLists.txt:6 (sofa_find_package)

Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “C:/sofa/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “C:/sofa/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.

[Hugo]

Hi @kaziabduljamil

As CMake is outputting in the error message you need to install boost.
It appears in the required dependencies.

Boost must be with version >= 1.65.1
Download and install latest Boost from https://boost.teeks99.com.
– Users with Windows 64-bit and VS 2019: choose boost_X_X_X-msvc-14.2-64.exe
– Users with Windows 64-bit and VS 2017: choose boost_X_X_X-msvc-14.1-64.exe
– Users with Windows 32-bit and VS 2019: choose boost_X_X_X-msvc-14.2-32.exe
– Users with Windows 32-bit and VS 2017: choose boost_X_X_X-msvc-14.1-32.exe

Best wishes,

Hugo

[Jake]

Thank you for your kind infirmation,
Is there any specific folder do I install the boost software?

[Hugo]

No but you may have to specify this path where you installed boost in the CMake configuration step.
Best wishes,

Hugo

[Dinary]

Hi @Hugo
i have the same problem, i installed many versions of boost and have the same error

Could NOT find Boost (missing: system filesystem program_options) (found
version “1.75.0”)

i add the path of the boost folder in the widows but also not working

Regards,
m. Dinary

[Hugo]

Hi @dinary

I think the answer is in the error: you are missingsystem filesystem program_options. I think it found the headers but not the libs. As suggested on this forum, you need to set BOOST_ROOT or Boost_DIR

How did you install boost?

Best wishes,

Hugo

[Dinary]

Sorry for late reply

i have to choose the platform x64 in the starting of the cmake, that’s solve the boost problem with add the directory of the header and library files.

still have errors in the configuring with cmake hope it all end.

Thank you for support,
M. Dinary

[Hugo]

Hi @dinary

Are the errors you are referring to the same CMake errors about boost?
If so, did you set both variables BOOST_ROOT or Boost_DIR, as suggested on this forum?

Hugo

[Jake]

Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_INCLUDE_DIRS GLEW_LIBRARIES)
OpenGL advanced functions (e.g shaders, FBO) are disabled.
Adding module SofaSimpleFem
Adding module SofaRigid
Adding module SofaDeformable
Adding module SofaObjectInteraction
Adding module SofaMeshCollision
Adding module SofaEngine
Adding module SofaExplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaImplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaLoader
Adding module SofaGeneralVisual
Adding module SofaGraphComponent
Adding module SofaGeneralMeshCollision
Adding module SofaBoundaryCondition
Adding module SofaGeneralAnimationLoop
Adding module SofaGeneralDeformable
Adding module SofaGeneralEngine
Adding module SofaGeneralExplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralImplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralLinearSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralRigid
Adding module SofaGeneralObjectInteraction
Adding module SofaGeneralSimpleFem
Adding module SofaGeneralTopology
Adding module SofaTopologyMapping
Adding module SofaUserInteraction
Adding module SofaConstraint
Adding module SofaGeneralLoader
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
Could NOT find ZLIB (missing: ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/FindZLIB.cmake:120 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
SofaKernel/SofaFramework/SofaMacrosConfigure.cmake:328 (find_package)
modules/SofaGeneralLoader/CMakeLists.txt:50 (sofa_find_package)

[jnbrunet]

Hey Jake,

Did you correctly installed the Windows’s dependencies ? Especially the part Windows dependency pack in the Additional libraries part:

Note that you need to unzip this archive into the source directory of SOFA, as stated in the Setup your source and build directories sub section:

Let us know if that helped.

[Julien D.]

Hey @Jake,

I faced the same problem a few weeks ago… But the members of the SOFA community helped me a lot ^^

So, if you have properly unzipped the WIN_dependency folder, you have to add several lines to your CMake file to detect all these dependencies properly.

First,

set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${LIBRARIES_PATH}/sofa/build/install/)
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${LIBRARIES_PATH}/sofa/src/cmake/Modules)

allows CMake to find the XXXtargets.cmake files of SOFA and the dependencies’ cmake files.

Then,

set(GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR ${LIBRARIES_PATH}/sofa/src/include)
set(GLEW_SHARED_LIBRARY_RELEASE ${LIBRARIES_PATH}/sofa/src/lib/win64/glew32.lib)

allows CMake to find the files required for GLEW.

Be careful to set ${LIBRARIES_PATH} to the root of your libraries folders.

Best wishes,

Julien D

[Jake]

thanks for your support..I have overcome this problem, recently I am facing the following problems:
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:15 (FIND_PACKAGE):
By not providing “FindQt5Widgets.cmake” in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
“Qt5Widgets”, but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by “Qt5Widgets” with
any of the following names:

Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
qt5widgets-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of “Qt5Widgets” to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
“Qt5Widgets_DIR” to a directory containing one of the above files. If
“Qt5Widgets” provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.

Install prefix:
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:228 (message):
Deprecated components are activated (SOFA_WITH_DEPRECATED_COMPONENTS
variable is ON)

Adding module SofaSimpleFem
Adding module SofaRigid
Adding module SofaDeformable
Adding module SofaObjectInteraction
Adding module SofaMeshCollision
Adding module SofaEngine
Adding module SofaExplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaImplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaLoader
Adding module SofaGeneralVisual
Adding module SofaGraphComponent
Adding module SofaGeneralMeshCollision
Adding module SofaBoundaryCondition
Adding module SofaGeneralAnimationLoop
Adding module SofaGeneralDeformable
Adding module SofaGeneralEngine
Adding module SofaGeneralExplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralImplicitOdeSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralLinearSolver
Adding module SofaGeneralRigid
Adding module SofaGeneralObjectInteraction
Adding module SofaGeneralSimpleFem
Adding module SofaGeneralTopology
Adding module SofaTopologyMapping
Adding module SofaUserInteraction
Adding module SofaConstraint
Adding module SofaGeneralLoader
Adding module SofaSparseSolver
SofaSparseSolver: using built-in metis library
Adding module SofaPreconditioner
Adding module SofaHaptics
Adding module SofaValidation
Adding module SofaDenseSolver
Adding module SofaNonUniformFem
Adding module SofaOpenglVisual
Adding module SofaMiscTopology
Adding module SofaMiscExtra
Adding module SofaMiscForceField
Adding module SofaMiscEngine
Adding module SofaMiscSolver
Adding module SofaMiscFem
Adding module SofaMiscMapping
CMake Error at modules/SofaGuiQt/CMakeLists.txt:11 (message):
SofaGuiQt: Qt5 is required and was not found.

Add Qt5 directory to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or disable SofaGuiQt by setting
SOFAGUI_QT to OFF.

SofaGuiQt: Qt5Charts not found. No chart nor Profile will be compiled
CMake Error at modules/SofaGuiQt/libQGLViewer-2.7.1/QGLViewer/CMakeLists.txt:7 (message):
QGLViewer: Qt5 is required and was not found.

Add Qt5 directory to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or disable QGLViewer by setting
SOFAGUI_QGLVIEWER to OFF.

CMake Error at modules/SofaGuiQt/libQGLViewer-2.7.1/QGLViewer/CMakeLists.txt:75 (qt5_wrap_cpp):
Unknown CMake command “qt5_wrap_cpp”.

Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “C:/sofa/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “C:/sofa/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.

[Julien D.]

Have you installed Qt properly? If I remember right, you have to install Qt (from the unified installer or any other) and add the location of your files FindQtXXX.cmake to your PATH. You can try that but I’m not sure it will 100% solve your issue. Hope that helps anyways.

Best wishes

[Jake]

Can anyone suggests which ubuntu version (16.04 or 18.04) is better for SOFA installation?

[amazier]

Hi Jack,

I would recommend at least the 18.04 (the 16.04 is not supported by Ubuntu since April). The best one would even be the 20.04, good luck.

Arnaud

[Hugo]

Hey @kaziabduljamil

On both question, both @jducrocq007 and @amazier were right:
– Ubuntu 18.04 (even better: 20.04)
– for your Qt issue, comes from the fact that during the install of Qt you forgot to select the Qt5 option or you did not add Qt in your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. See here for the option selection.

Best,

Hugo

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