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Where would my qt path be? just to the folder labeled QT? I am having trouble understanding how linux installs things like this or how to access those install directories.
Damien, I just want to thank you for all your help so far. However, this all leaves me wondering… There has got to be a simpler way to get started with SOFA right? Is there an image of linux that i can install that already has all of this installed. I think there was a broken link somewhere leading to something like that but i cannot find it again. I have actually received such an image from another source/forum but it does not have the STLIB included and is using ubuntu 14.x. without that library I am having trouble getting through the tutorials to understand things since it wont load the files the tutorials ask you to recreate.
As a mechanical engineer and not a computer scientist, this process has been extremely time consuming and difficult. Are there any plans to make it easier? As enlightening as the process has been, its been almost 3 weeks now and I have not been able to even install SOFA/softrobotics to begin the work my short internship was meant to do. I hope you understand my frustration.
First off thank you for all of this help!
Second that seemed to work for that particular issue, but now another comes up when i run those last two commands.
-- Found dependency : 'STLIB' plugin . SoftRobots: Using Qt4 for some controllers CMake Error at /home/chuck/plugins/SoftRobots/CMakeLists.txt:95 (sofa_generate_package): Unknown CMake command "sofa_generate_package". -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/home/chuck/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "/home/chuck/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".I looked in this file and there seems to be a function that is called of this name…
## Install rules for the library and headers; CMake package configurations files sofa_generate_package(NAME SoftRobots VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION} TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME} INCLUDE_ROOT_DIR SoftRobots)Damian,
I appreciate you following up. I have been having a lot of troubles and trying to solve them myself. I thikn i have been able to solve most of them. I am now having trouble with the last cmake command. I have been following the second of the two basch scripts you gave me.
when I run it it says that soft Robotics requires some qt4 modules. I cannot find out how to install qt 4 easily or in a way that i understand. the installer doesn’t include it and I have used synaptic package manager to try to install it but am getting the same errors. here is the output…
<font color="#8AE234"><b>chuck@chuck-VirtualBox</b></font>:<font color="#729FCF"><b>~/build</b></font>$ cmake ../sofa -G Ninja -DPLUGIN_SOFAPYTHON=1 -DSOFA_BUILD_METIS=1 -DSOFA_EXTERNAL_DIRECTORIES=../plugins -DPLUGIN_STLIB=1 -DPLUGIN_SOFTROBOTS=1 -- Install prefix: /home/chuck/build/install -- Boost version: 1.65.1 -- Found the following Boost libraries: -- system -- filesystem -- locale -- program_options -- chrono -- atomic -- thread -- date_time ICU_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so Cannot find any Qt libraries on your system, please set Qt5_DIR or Qt4_DIR if you want to compile GUIs using Qt Adding Module SofaSparseSolver -- -- metis was found, SparseLDLSolver will be built -- -- csparse was found, SparseLUSolver and SparseCholeskySolver will be built Adding Module SofaPreconditioner -- -- newmat was not found. Adding Plugin SofaPython -- SofaTest: optional dependency SofaPython found, Python_test will be built Adding Plugin CImgPlugin -- CImgPlugin: TIFF Image Format enabled -- CImgPlugin: JPEG Image Format enabled -- CImgPlugin: PNG Image Format enabled Adding Plugin SofaMiscCollision -- SofaMiscModule: build all maintained sofa components. -- SofaMiscCollision: optional dependency SofaSphFluid not found de-activing: <SpatialGridPointModel> -- PSL is an experimental feature, use it at your own risk. Adding Plugin SofaAllCommonComponents Adding Application runSofa Write Plugin list at /home/chuck/build/lib/plugin_list.conf.default Adding external directory: plugins (../plugins) Adding Plugin STLIB Adding Plugin SoftRobots -- Found dependency : 'STLIB' plugin . SoftRobots: Using Qt4 for some controllers CMake Error at /home/chuck/plugins/SoftRobots/CMakeLists.txt:95 (sofa_generate_package): Unknown CMake command "sofa_generate_package". -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/home/chuck/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "/home/chuck/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
I feel like i am so close!
Thank you so much for the help! I followed the instructions and have made it to the build phase. about 80% through the build i was missing a directory for QWebEngineView. I took a screen at the time but did not copy the output (image: https://imgur.com/a/fuBngjk). I have looked for this and seem to be redirected to QtWebEngine. I have looked around on how to installs but thought i might post here before doing something stupid.
Any thoughts or insight would be great thank you!
I too am looking for a for dummies guide to installation. I am trying to use the soft robotics plugin for space exploration possibilities and am coming from a very hardware focused background. Because of my need for the soft robotics plugin, compiling has been a 3 day process of mistake after mistake. We tried to do the tutorials once we thought we had something going and realized we were missing something in the build.
Does the SOFA or soft robotics teams have a guide from step 1 up until starting the tutorials on how to correctly build and install the SOFA package with the relevant packages and plugins included? I and 2 of my colleagues are at our wits end!
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OS: ubuntu (18.04.1 LTS)
