Fatal errors with new projects under both VS 2017 and VS 2019

[pixelherodev]

A fresh Oryol-based project fails with win64-vs{code,2017,tudio}-debug, with or without a d3d11- prefix, with errors like

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'oryol_Gfx\Debug\Gfx.obj' [C:\Users\...\d3d11-win64-vs2017-debug\....vcxproj
]```
 I'm reporting this here, not there, because if I manually copy files from e.g. oryol_Gfx\Gfx.dir\Debug into that folder, and repeat for the next five or six, it eventually happens with every single dependency.

[floooh]

I'll give it a try, at first glance it this path 'oryol_gfx...' looks wrong, it should be an absolute path, not relative..

[pixelherodev]

Release builds are also failing, with e.g. LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'oryol_Gfx\Release\Gfx.obj'

[floooh]

Does https://github.com/floooh/oryol-test-app build and run for you? I just tried that on a Win10 machine with the default build config.

[pixelherodev]

Either way, that path doesn't exist for any given configuration - but, in a slightly different folder (e.g. oryol_Gfx\Gfx.dir\Debug\ instead of oryol_Gfx\Debug), the files are present.

[pixelherodev]

... it does build, without issues, and runs. Sorry for wasting your time, this is almost certainly an issue with my setup.

[floooh]

Hmm, yeah, in my test-build the files are also in a Gfx.dir subdirectory:

...fips-build/oryol-test-app/win64-vstudio-debug/oryol_Gfx/Gfx.dir/Debug/...

Can you post your fips.yml file and toplevel CMakeLists.txt file? I suspect it has something todo with no_auto_import policy in the fips.yml file, but then not manually importing the required Oryol modules in the CMakeLists.txt file.

See here:

https://github.com/floooh/oryol-test-app/blob/aacc0ff10890bf2801c13eb05f2e7e0701d46525/fips.yml#L5-L6

And here:

https://github.com/floooh/oryol-test-app/blob/aacc0ff10890bf2801c13eb05f2e7e0701d46525/CMakeLists.txt#L15-L22

[pixelherodev]

no_auto_import is set to false...

policies:
  no_auto_import: false
imports:
  oryol:
    git: https://github.com/floooh/oryol.git
  oryol-imgui:
    git: https://github.com/floooh/oryol-imgui.git
  stb:
    git: https://github.com/fips-libs/fips-stb

[pixelherodev]

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)

if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU")
# Suppress warnings for dependencies
    add_definitions(-Wno-implicit-fallthrough)
endif()

# include the fips main cmake file
get_filename_component(FIPS_ROOT_DIR "./build/fips" ABSOLUTE)
include("${FIPS_ROOT_DIR}/cmake/fips.cmake")

if (FIPS_EMSCRIPTEN)
    add_definitions(-DSOKOL_GLES3)
    set(SOKOL_GLES3 TRUE)
elseif (FIPS_RASPBERRYPI)
    add_definitions(-DSOKOL_GLES2)
    set(SOKOL_GLES2 TRUE)
elseif (FIPS_ANDROID)
    add_definitions(-DSOKOL_GLES3)
    set(SOKOL_GLES3 TRUE)
elseif (SOKOL_USE_D3D11)
    add_definitions(-DSOKOL_D3D11)
    set(SOKOL_D3D11 TRUE)
elseif (SOKOL_USE_METAL)
    add_definitions(-DSOKOL_METAL)
    set(SOKOL_METAL TRUE)
else()
    if (FIPS_IOS)
        add_definitions(-DSOKOL_GLES3)
        set(SOKOL_GLES3 TRUE)
    else()
        add_definitions(-DSOKOL_GLCORE33)
        set(SOKOL_GL TRUE)
    endif()
endif()

fips_setup(PROJECT DocTag-Client)
project(DocTag-Client VERSION 0.1.0.0)

set(VERSION_PREFIX "alpha-")
set(VERSION_SUFFIX "")
configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/config.h.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config.h)

if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU")
    # Re-enable warnings that are suppressed for dependencies
    add_definitions(-Wimplicit-fallthrough)
    # Make all warnings errors, helps avoid accidentally introducing UB. Done here
    # so as to affect the client and libdoctag both without affecting any third
    # party dependencies.
    add_definitions(-Werror)
endif()

# Manually import libdoctag
set(FIPS_IMPORT 1)
get_filename_component(LIBDOCTAG_DIR "../libdoctag" ABSOLUTE)
add_subdirectory("${LIBDOCTAG_DIR}" "libdoctag")
set(FIPS_IMPORT)
fips_include_directories("${LIBDOCTAG_DIR}/src")
if (FIPS_WINDOWS)
    fips_include_directories("${LIBDOCTAG_DIR}/src/backends/windows")
endif()

# Has to be defined as cmdline for stdio to work properly on Windows
fips_begin_app(doctag-client cmdline)
fips_src(src NO_RECURSE)
fips_include_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
fips_deps(Gfx Input IMUI doctag)
fips_end_app()

if (UNIT_TESTING)
	add_definitions(-DUNIT_TESTING)
endif()

fips_finish()

[floooh]

Hmm weird. If you find out what's wrong can you post an update here? I'd like to know what happened there. Even when it's not a bug a bug in fips it might sense to print more helpful error messages...

[pixelherodev]

Yeah, sure. Going to have to find out what's wrong now that I know this on my end and I really need to get this working 😬

[pixelherodev]

Going to start with a literally empty folder and slowly build it up to see what pushes it over to the error.