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Creepy
Creepy

Reputation: 9

assimp compile error: DirectX_D3DX9_LIBRARY not found although directX is installed

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles"

gives following error:

Looking for sys/types.h
Looking for sys/types.h - found
Looking for stdint.h
Looking for stdint.h - found
Looking for stddef.h
Looking for stddef.h - found
Check size of off64_t
Check size of off64_t - done
Looking for fseeko
Looking for fseeko - not found
Looking for unistd.h
Looking for unistd.h - found
Looking for DirectX...
DirectX_PREFIX_PATH changed.
Found DirectX: C:/Windows/System32/d3d9.dll
DX lib dir: C:/Windows/System32
Looking for DirectX...
DirectX_PREFIX_PATH changed.
Found DirectX: C:/Windows/System32/d3d9.dll
DX lib dir: C:/Windows/System32
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
DirectX_D3DX9_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)

I already installed DirectX but it doesnt work either. I couldnt find the solution for this. The assimp Version is 3.3.1. I already tried to compile it with Visual Studio 2017 too.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1108

Answers (2)

Gene Walters
Gene Walters

Reputation: 166

Aside from stopping the compiler error by disabling ASSIMP_TOOLS, you may still want to build the assimp viewer as it's very useful for debugging. Even with DirectX installed, assimp may block the tool from being compiled. If you believe DirectX is properly installed, you can delete the check for DirectX; the way assimp checks for DirectX seems to be wrong. Removing the BUILD_ASSIMP_VIEW setting based on if "FIND_PACKAGE" returns true allows me to build assimp viewer image

https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/ce0a50ec21bfa4bb2535a4fbd87b67feadc0cea0/CMakeLists.txt#L753-L758

I created a GitHub issue as well https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/5820

Upvotes: 1

KimKulling
KimKulling

Reputation: 2843

This issue is caused by our old model-viewer. At the moment it wants to have an installation of the old DirectX9 SDK on your machine. To fix this just look for the DX-9.0a SDK ( just google for it ) and install it at the default location.

You can also run the cmake-script with tools-support disabled. Then the DX-SDK is not required and the issue will not occurr any more:

assimp_root_folder>cmake CMakeLists.txt -DASSIMP_BUILD_ASSIMP_TOOLS=OFF

Upvotes: 2

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