Cannot open input file 'cinder-v140.lib'

Calx · December 26, 2016, 9:30am

Hi all,

I’ve built cinder using the 140 tools from VS2015 Pro.
When I try and build my project that uses cinder the linker is complaining:

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ‘cinder-v140.lib’

but the only file I have is

Cinder\lib\msw\x86\Release\v140\cinder.lib

Can anyone point out what I’m doing wrong - I’m using the same VS Project successfully in two other locations and have setup the project the same way as far as I can tell.

Any help appreciated.

Dave

paul.houx · December 26, 2016, 9:58am

Hi,

I assume you’re using the latest master branch? Have a look at this post: very recently the location of the lib files were changed. Chances are your project settings need to be updated, specifically the linker settings for your libraries and additional directories.

-Paul

Calx · December 27, 2016, 11:05am

That’s exactly what I was after, thanks appreciate the help - I decided it was best to rebuild and start a new project in the end, and cloned the latest master branch. Cinder now won’t build at all the first error being:

Error C2027 use of undefined type 'std::basic_ofstream<char,std::char_traits<char>>' cinder c:\dev\cinder\src\cinder\utilities.cpp 104

followed by:

I’m completely stumped. All i’ve done is recursive clone, and build the 2013 project (after conversion)

And this is what I get - any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

Calx · December 27, 2016, 11:26am

The problem is here:

github.com

cinder/Cinder/blob/f2671877306e2cc1094c2831dfeeb1e7b13b3bb0/src/cinder/Utilities.cpp#L104


	writeString( (DataTargetRef)writeFile( path ), str );
}


void writeString( const DataTargetRef &dataTarget, const std::string &str )
{
	fs::path outPath = dataTarget->getFilePath();
	if( outPath.empty() ) {
		throw ci::Exception( "writeString can only write to file." );
	}


	std::ofstream ofs( outPath.string(), std::ofstream::binary );
	ofs << str;
	ofs.close();
}


void sleep( float milliseconds )
{
	app::Platform::get()->sleep( milliseconds );
}


vector<string> stackTrace()

"incomplete type is now allowed"

lithium · December 27, 2016, 1:20pm

I’ve found that vc is a lot more of a sook when it comes to includes than other IDEs / compilers. Can you try explicitly including <fstream> in Utilities.cpp and rebuilding cinder?

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