[custom] Unable to build from source on Windows10

[jsemeda]

I downloaded the source code and used cmake to build it as described in the build section, on windows 10 and visual studio, but the generated project is empty, image attached.

[larshg]

How did you install all dependencies and how did you run cmake?

[jsemeda]

The dependencies are already built on my drive, some are compiled from source and some came from vcpkg. I run cmake-gui for windows as shown in the installation section.

[larshg]

And you have added vcpkg as a toolchain input?
Try show the log from the cmake generation.

[jsemeda]

Yes vcpkg and pkgconfig are both present.
Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.26100.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
Could NOT find ClangFormat (missing: ClangFormat_EXECUTABLE ClangFormat_VERSION) (Required is at least version "14")
Found CUDA Toolkit v13.0.88
CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES: 75;80;86;87;88;89;90;100;110;103;120;121
Found OpenMP, spec date 200203
Checking for module 'flann>=1.9.1'
Package 'flann' not found
FLANN found (include: D:/Libraries/flann-1.9.1/src/cpp/flann, lib: D:/Libraries/flann-1.9.1/build/lib/Release/flann_cpp_s.lib)
nanoflann was not found, so some PCL classes will not be available.
Checking for module 'libusb-1.0'
Package 'libusb-1.0' not found
Could NOT find libusb (missing: libusb_LIBRARIES libusb_INCLUDE_DIR)
Could NOT find libusb (missing: LIBUSB_LIBRARIES LIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIRS)
Could NOT find Qhull (missing: QHULL_LIBRARY QHULL_INCLUDE_DIR)
VTK version: 9.5.20250905
VTK rendering backend: OpenGL2
VTK Qt support: NOTFOUND
VTK libs: VTK::DICOM;VTK::zlib;VTK::WrappingTools;VTK::ViewsContext2D;VTK::loguru;VTK::TestingRendering;VTK::TestingCore;VTK::vtksys;VTK::ViewsInfovis;VTK::CommonColor;VTK::ViewsCore;VTK::RenderingLabel;VTK::octree;VTK::RenderingLOD;VTK::RenderingLICOpenGL2;VTK::glad;VTK::RenderingImage;VTK::RenderingGridAxes;VTK::RenderingContextOpenGL2;VTK::RenderingCellGrid;VTK::fmt;VTK::nlohmannjson;VTK::RenderingVolumeOpenGL2;VTK::IOVeraOut;VTK::hdf5;VTK::IOTecplotTable;VTK::utf8;VTK::IOSegY;VTK::IOParallelXML;VTK::IOParallel;VTK::jsoncpp;VTK::IOPLY;VTK::IOOggTheora;VTK::theora;VTK::ogg;VTK::IONetCDF;VTK::netcdf;VTK::IOMotionFX;VTK::pegtl;VTK::IOMINC;VTK::IOLSDyna;VTK::IOLANLX3D;VTK::IOImport;VTK::IOIOSS;VTK::ioss;VTK::cgns;VTK::exodusII;VTK::IOHDF;VTK::IOFLUENTCFF;VTK::IOVideo;VTK::IOMovie;VTK::IOFDS;VTK::IOInfovis;VTK::libxml2;VTK::IOExportPDF;VTK::libharu;VTK::png;VTK::IOExportGL2PS;VTK::RenderingGL2PSOpenGL2;VTK::gl2ps;VTK::IOExodus;VTK::IOEngys;VTK::IOEnSight;VTK::IOERF;VTK::IOCityGML;VTK::pugixml;VTK::IOChemistry;VTK::IOCesium3DTiles;VTK::libproj;VTK::IOCONVERGECFD;VTK::IOHDFTools;VTK::IOCGNSReader;VTK::IOAvmesh;VTK::IOAsynchronous;VTK::IOExport;VTK::RenderingVtkJS;VTK::IOGeometry;VTK::RenderingSceneGraph;VTK::IOAMR;VTK::InteractionImage;VTK::InfovisLayout;VTK::ImagingStencil;VTK::ImagingStatistics;VTK::ImagingMorphological;VTK::ImagingMath;VTK::ImagingFourier;VTK::IOSQL;VTK::sqlite;VTK::InteractionWidgets;VTK::RenderingVolume;VTK::RenderingAnnotation;VTK::InteractionStyle;VTK::ImagingHybrid;VTK::ImagingColor;VTK::GeovisCore;VTK::FiltersTopology;VTK::FiltersTensor;VTK::FiltersSelection;VTK::FiltersSMP;VTK::FiltersProgrammable;VTK::FiltersPoints;VTK::FiltersParallelImaging;VTK::FiltersTemporal;VTK::FiltersImaging;VTK::ImagingGeneral;VTK::FiltersGeometryPreview;VTK::FiltersGeneric;VTK::FiltersFlowPaths;VTK::eigen;VTK::FiltersAMR;VTK::FiltersParallel;VTK::FiltersTexture;VTK::FiltersModeling;VTK::DomainsChemistryOpenGL2;VTK::RenderingOpenGL2;VTK::RenderingHyperTreeGrid;VTK::RenderingUI;VTK::FiltersHybrid;VTK::DomainsChemistry;VTK::ChartsCore;VTK::InfovisCore;VTK::FiltersExtraction;VTK::ParallelDIY;VTK::diy2;VTK::IOXML;VTK::IOXMLParser;VTK::expat;VTK::ParallelCore;VTK::IOLegacy;VTK::IOCellGrid;VTK::FiltersCellGrid;VTK::token;VTK::IOCore;VTK::lz4;VTK::lzma;VTK::fast_float;VTK::FiltersStatistics;VTK::FiltersHyperTree;VTK::ImagingSources;VTK::IOImage;VTK::jpeg;VTK::metaio;VTK::tiff;VTK::DICOMParser;VTK::RenderingContext2D;VTK::RenderingFreeType;VTK::freetype;VTK::kwiml;VTK::RenderingCore;VTK::FiltersSources;VTK::ImagingCore;VTK::FiltersGeneral;VTK::FiltersVerdict;VTK::verdict;VTK::FiltersGeometry;VTK::CommonComputationalGeometry;VTK::FiltersCore;VTK::FiltersReduction;VTK::CommonExecutionModel;VTK::CommonDataModel;VTK::CommonSystem;VTK::CommonMisc;VTK::exprtk;VTK::CommonTransforms;VTK::CommonMath;VTK::kissfft;VTK::CommonCore;VTK::scn
Qt version: 5.15.18
CMake Deprecation Warning at cmake/pcl_find_qt.cmake:61 (cmake_policy):
The OLD behavior for policy CMP0100 will be removed from a future version
of CMake.

The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all
policies are deprecated and that a policy should be set to OLD only under
specific short-term circumstances. Projects should be ported to the NEW
behavior and not rely on setting a policy to OLD.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:432 (include)

Could NOT find Pcap (missing: PCAP_LIBRARIES PCAP_INCLUDE_DIRS)
CMake Warning at D:/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:908 (_find_package):
By not providing "FindcJSON.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "cJSON", but
CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "cJSON" with any of
the following names:

cJSONConfig.cmake
cjson-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "cJSON" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"cJSON_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "cJSON"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:463 (find_package)

CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:467 (message):
It is recommended to install an up-to-date version of cJSON on your system.
CMake did not find one, and will instead use a cJSON version bundled with
the PCL source code. However, that is an older version which may pose a
risk and may be removed in a future PCL release.

DOXYGEN_FOUND
HTML_HELP_COMPILER
Found CPack generators: NSIS
PCL build with following flags:
/DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /GR /EHsc /fp:precise /arch:AVX2 /wd4800 /wd4521 /wd4251 /wd4275 /wd4305 /wd4355 /w34265 /bigobj -openmp
The following subsystems will be built:
cuda_common
The following subsystems will not be built:
common: Requires external library boost.
kdtree: Requires common.
octree: Requires common.
search: Requires octree.
sample_consensus: Requires search.
filters: Requires octree.
2d: Requires filters.
geometry: Requires common.
io: Requires external library boost.
features: Requires 2d.
ml: Requires common.
segmentation: Requires ml.
visualization: Requires octree.
surface: Requires octree.
registration: Requires filters.
keypoints: Requires filters.
tracking: Requires octree.
recognition: Requires ml.
stereo: Requires io.
apps: Requires 2d.
benchmarks: Disabled by default.
cuda_io: Requires external library openni.
cuda_features: Requires common.
cuda_segmentation: Requires common.
cuda_sample_consensus: Requires common.
cuda_apps: Requires geometry.
outofcore: Boost filesystem is not available.
examples: Disabled: outofcore missing.
gpu_utils: Requires common.
gpu_containers: Requires gpu_utils.
gpu_octree: Requires gpu_utils.
gpu_features: Requires geometry.
gpu_kinfu: Kinfu uses textures which was removed in CUDA 12
gpu_kinfu_large_scale: Kinfu_large_scale uses textures which was removed in CUDA 12
gpu_people: Requires visualization.
gpu_segmentation: Requires gpu_octree.
gpu_surface: Disabled by default.
gpu_tracking: Disabled by default.
people: Requires octree.
simulation: Disabled by default.
global_tests: Disabled by default.
tools: Requires io.
Configuring done (26.7s)
Generating done (27.5s)

[larshg]

Seemlingly it has found boost - is that installed with vcpkg? which version? if you do a clean cache and reconfigure, does it then find it?

[jsemeda]

I have boost on vcpkg and built from source, but I am not providing any boost information to cmake. I looked at my Path and it is not on it. I changed the flann folder to vcpkg so it can find it.
I added BOOST_ROOT and BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR to the env vars but it is still unable to find it. I see that is causing problems since it is refusing to build several packages, just not sure how to make it find boost

[larshg]

Yeah, boost is required. Can you post all lines about boost. I remember I experienced something similiar, but right now I can't remember the solution 😕

[larshg]

Have you built boost as static or dynamic?

[jsemeda]

I almost always use static libraries, so it is static built. I am looking at the findboost.cmake file to see how it is finding boost, I might have to make some changes in the file to force it to see it.

[larshg]

Ahh, yes. I did build it as relwithdebug (dynamic/dll though) and I think that file name wasn't recognized, so that could be it.

[mvieth]

Maybe see https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/.dev/docker/windows/Dockerfile#L52 and compare with the boost vcpkg-packages you have installed. Especially boost-cmake is important.