Issues compiling the library to use the Python API

[oriolgalceran]

Hi,

I've come across a seemingly unsurmountable barrier when trying to compile soltrace to use the python API. I've compiled and built wxwidgets and set all env variables accordingly, but when I try to compile the library I get the following error:

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find wxWidgets (missing: wxWidgets_LIBRARIES wxWidgets_INCLUDE_DIRS qa webview aui richtext html propgrid adv net stc core base scintilla) Call Stack (most recent call first): C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindwxWidgets.cmake:988 (find_package_handle_standard_args) lk/CMakeLists.txt:92 (find_package)

I don't have a lot of experience building C++ libraries and the whole process was pretty confusing, especially with regards to having everything in the same folder, the role of visual studio, "only building the coretrace_api project" etc. I can only hope that someday we will be able to install this in a more straightforward manner, but I regardless thank the developers for their incredible work with this program and also in advance to anyone who can lend me a hand!

[oriolgalceran]

I got a bit further by resetting the env variables, somehow they weren't updated in the terminal session I was using. I still get an error saying that version.h is missing. Could you be more detailed in the instructions regarding on how to setup wxwidgets for the library? Thanks

Edit: Something like this? https://github.com/NREL/SolarPILOT/wiki/build-windows

[oriolgalceran]

Oh wow! I found coretrace_api.dll on solarPILOT's repo (https://github.com/NREL/SolarPILOT/blob/develop/deploy/api/coretrace_api.dll), copied it into the same directory as pysoltrace.py, and it works! Science