I am trying to link a .lib file and a .def file to create a .dll of this .lib file. I have been using this command: link /dll /machine:x86 /def:mylib.def mylib.lib and have been receiving the LNK 1181 error message. As noted on other stack posts (Visual Studio: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file), I have added the .lib path to my linker input directory and my additional library directory. Also, I have checked to make sure there are no spaces in the paths. I have tried everything noted in the post linked above.
Anyone have an idea as to what might be causing this error?
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I am trying to build VTK version 9.2.2 with CMake for a few days now, but no luck so far. I am getting the below error in CMake GUI:
CMake Error: Cannot open file for write: C:/Program Files/vtk/bin/CMakeCache.txt.tmpc3fcf
CMake Error: Unable to (re)create the private pkgRedirects directory:
C:/Program Files/vtk/bin/CMakeFiles/pkgRedirects
CMake Error: : System Error: No such file or directory
CMake Error: Unable to open cache file for save. C:/Program Files/vtk/bin/CMakeCache.txt
CMake Error: : System Error: No such file or directory
I am following the video here, but it still does not work for me. I have tried to search for answers for a while, but there doesn't seem to be the exact same error that I am having on the internet anywhere.
I am on Windows 10, using VTK 9.2.2 and my CMake version is 3.25.1. I also tried with multiple versions of visual studio in the configuration, but it returned the same error.
The steps I have taken were:
Download VTK from the site
Put the downloaded files into the program files directory
Made a /src and /bin folder under a /vtk folder, which is outside the downloaded package
Copied and pasted the downloaded files into the /src folder
Opened CMake GUI and chose the src folder as the source and chose the bin folder as the build folder
Clicked generate and it threw the errors above
The error message like
CMake Error: Cannot open file for write: ...
usually occurred when CMake has no permissions to write a given file.
Your case involves directories under C:/Program Files/, which are usually configured as read-only for normal users.
The file CMakeCache.txt is created in the build directory, so the error message about such file usually means problem with a build directory.
A build directory should always be writable by the regular user. Here CMake creates files for the build tool, and here a build tool creates intermediate and resulted files.
I am trying to use conan in a CLion project. Conan generates a conanbuildinfo.cmake file. In this file, it's trying to read another file, generated by conan too, and called conaninfo.txt.
It's not able to find it, and cmake prints the following error :
CMake Error at D:/Sources/vodrm-ecmg_c++/build/conanbuildinfo.cmake:663 (file):
file failed to open for reading (No such file or directory):
/cygdrive/d/Sources/myproject/D:/Sources/myproject/build/conaninfo.txt
As you can see the error is saying cmake could not find the requested file. But it actullay can, because the following code :
if (EXISTS ${_CONAN_CURRENT_DIR}/conaninfo.txt)
message("Found :" ${_CONAN_CURRENT_DIR}/conaninfo.txt)
endif()
file (READ "${_CONAN_CURRENT_DIR}/conaninfo.txt" CONANINFO)
Prints :
Found :D:/Sources/project/build/conaninfo.txt
It's totally contradicting since cmake is finding the file, but not when using file command.
Did anyone encountered this bug, if it's one, before? Any solution? I really don't see what I am doing wrong, since this file is generated by conan.
By the way, I am using cmake version 3.6.2.
Thanks in advance.
I am working on a project on c++ and need to execute a CMakeLists.txt file to run it. I installed cmake, doxygen, cmake-curses-gui and make using sudo. Then I tried running the file.
The following is a part of the cmake code -
if (BUILD_DOC)
find_package(Doxygen)
configure_file(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile.in
${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile #ONLY)
add_custom_target(${PROJECT_NAME}_doc ALL ${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE}
${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile)
endif ()
Here, it gave me an error message saying that
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:77 (configure_file): configure_file
Problem configuring file
Just so that you know, line 77 is configure_file(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile.in .
If I add AND DOXYGEN_FOUND to the if condition, it doesn't execute anything at all which means that it couldn't find a doxygen executable. But as I already told, I already installed doxygen.
I am new to cmake. So, could anyone please help me with this
Edit:
The OS I am using is Ubuntu 16.04
After I put if(DOXYGEN_FOUND) after the command find_package(doxygen) it executed, but I got the same cmake error in line 78 instead of line 77
Also, now since I got enough information from the comments, I just realized that my problem is more towards finding where the Doxyfile.in file lies than configuring the file. Could anyonee help me with it?
The error is clear
configure_file Problem configuring file
CMake's configure_file(<input> <output>) command is used to copy input file to ouput and replacing #VARIABLES# in input by the corresponding value.
configure_file(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile.in ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile #ONLY)
You have to find why this process failed:
Make sure ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} contains the correct path to your project, and make sure the file Doxyfile.in is is the right folder (<project dir>/doc)
Make sure content of Doxyfile.in does not contains any syntax error, in particular with #VARIABLES# that needs to be replaced by their CMake value.
Note that this error has nothing to do with Doxygen on your system, and the fact that CMake actually found it or not.
In the main folder of my project, I have a CMakeLists.txt file. Inside this file, I include (using add_subdirectory) another CMakeLists.txt file located in my header file directory. The responsibility of this second file is to add all of my header files to the project:
file(GLOB gl_nbody_HEADERS "*.h")
add_executable(gl_nbody ${gl_nbody_HEADERS})
However, this files causes an error:
CMake Error: CMake can not determine linker language for target:gl_nbody
CMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "gl_nbody".
What is strange is that when I include the two lines causing this error in my main CMakeLists.txt file (modified to work correctly for the change in directory), it works fine.
What is going wrong here?
add_executable causes the creation of an executable target, meaning the compilation of a list of source code files into an executable binary.
In order for this to work, and have CMake select a suitable compiler, the list of source files must contain at least one file with a "compilable" extension, ie. .c, or .cpp, or .cxx....
I don't see why you are trying to compile an executable here, since you only seem to try to list header files for inclusion into a project (which only makes sense for IDE-based generators, such as Visual Studio).
Also, it is not recommended to use globbing of files in CMake, because if you add more files to your project, CMake cannot detect them automatically, and will not regenerate build files. Please list all files explicitely.
The proper solution here is to list the header files in the proper add_executable command call where you list the actual source files that you want to compile.
You might also want to use the source_group() command, that allows you to group files into folders in the generated Visual Studio solution, for example:
source_group(header_files ${gl_nbody_HEADERS})
I have created a VTKTest directory containing the two files from VTK/Examples/Tutorials/Step6/Cxx, and another directory, namely, VTKTestBin
In CMake, I have specified the source as VTKTest and the build as VTKTestBin.
When I hit the configure button, I get an error message telling me: error in configuration process, project files may be invalid
How can I go around this?
Try changing the CMakeLists.txt file to:
PROJECT (Step6)
FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${VTK_USE_FILE})
ADD_EXECUTABLE(Cone6 Cone6.cxx)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(Cone6 ${VTK_LIBRARIES})