I’m having some CMake issues with installing OpenUSD on Windows. My build command is the suggested command on this Adobe plugin repo. I’ve also tried the default installation command from the OpenUSD repo but it’s a similar issue:
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:165 (message):
Could NOT find Boost (missing: Boost_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:458 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2177 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
cmake/defaults/Packages.cmake:43 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:29 (include)
The latest boost build doesn’t come with an installer so I simply copied it to a boost folder in Program Files and added to my system environment variables Boost_ROOT, Boost_INCLUDE_DIR, and Boost_LIBRARY_DIR. I’m not great with CMake configurations so what exactly am I doing wrong?
Well, first, build_usd.py will automatically download and build boost for you - so I might try just unsetting all those boost env vars, and seeing if it works.
Otherwise - in general, make variables are different than environment variables. Some cmake variables may pull a default value from the environment, but many do not. I might try explicitly setting the cmake variables on the command line, using, ie, -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\path\to\boost\include
Also - IIRC on Windows the include dir has an extra versioned dir inside it - I would try both with and without that dir - offhand I don’t recall which way it expects it
This is actually the first thing I tried, it doesn’t find the cmake built boost directory inside the target directory.
I tried the -DVARIABLE tag and it gave me the following error:
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
-- Disabling boost-provided cmake config
CMake Warning at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1187 (message):
New Boost version may have incorrect or missing dependencies and imported
targets
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1311 (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1919 (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
cmake/defaults/Packages.cmake:133 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:29 (include)
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:165 (message):
Could NOT find Boost (missing: python39) (found version "1.84.0")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:458 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2177 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
cmake/defaults/Packages.cmake:133 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:29 (include)
Looks like it’s no longer having trouble finding boost but I was wondering if dependencies was referring to the libs for boost. So I tried a subsequent cmake build commands setting Boost_LIBRARY_DIR ,once with the original boost libs and once with the libs built specifically for OpenUSD, but it sends the same error.
The instructions for Windows in the OpenUSD repo suggests using x64 Native Tools command prompt which uses the MSVC cmake. Are you suggesting manually using an updated version?