Error compiling mfemm - R2022a Windows

[pierrepesc]

Hi,

First time xfemm user. I tried to set up the matlab interface to xfemm by running mfemm_setup(). It started compiling nicely (see below) but then I got an error

>> mfemm_setup()

mex -c -O -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -I"../cfemm/fmesher" -I"../cfemm/fmesher/triangle" -I"../cfemm/libfemm" -I"../cfemm/libfemm/liblua" -DCPU86 -DNDEBUG  GCC="$GCC" OPTIMFLAGS="" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=c++11  -fpermissive" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static-libstdc++ '-Wl,--no-undefined'" C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\mfemm\..\cfemm\libfemm\liblua\femmcomplex.cpp -outdir C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\mfemm\..\cfemm\libfemm\liblua
Building with 'MinGW64 Compiler (C++)'.
MEX completed successfully.

... on and on until I got the following error

mex -c -O -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -I"../cfemm/fmesher" -I"../cfemm/fmesher/triangle" -I"../cfemm/libfemm" -I"../cfemm/libfemm/liblua" -DCPU86 -DNDEBUG  GCC="$GCC" OPTIMFLAGS="" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=c++11  -fpermissive" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static-libstdc++ '-Wl,--no-undefined'" C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\mfemm\..\cfemm\libfemm\femmversion.cpp -outdir C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\mfemm\..\cfemm\libfemm
Building with 'MinGW64 Compiler (C++)'.
Error using mex
C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\cfemm\libfemm\femmversion.cpp:1:25: fatal error: femmversion.h: No such file or directory
 #include "femmversion.h"

when I looked in C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\cfemm\libfemm I saw that the file was actually called femmversion.h.in ? I tried to rename it to simply femmversion.h and ran again mfemm_setup but then got this issue (only pasting below the beginning of the error:

Error using mex
In file included from C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\cfemm\libfemm\LuaInstance.cpp:21:0:
C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm-master\xfemm-master\cfemm\libfemm\femmversion.h:21:28: error: stray '@' in program
 #define FEMM_VERSION_MAJOR @XFEMM_VERSION_MAJOR@

I'm a bit stuck with that, would appreciate a hand.

Thanks

[pierrepesc]

@reos-rcrozier ?

[reos-rcrozier]

Yes, you need to first run cmake on the cfemm folder to generate this file, then mfemm_setup will work

[pierrepesc]

Thanks a lot, didn't read the instructions well enough...

So not sure I compiled it correctly as Matlab is consistently crashing when running mexfmesher...

Below is the summary of the cmake

-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):      
  Compatibility with CMake < 3.10 will be removed from a future version of   
  CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value.  Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax 
  to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
  to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.


-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.42.34435.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.42.34435.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/BuildTools/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.42.34433/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/BuildTools/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.42.34433/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- This is xfemm version 0.0.0-dev...
CMake Warning at fmesher/CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindTriangle.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Triangle",
  but CMake did not find one.

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

    TriangleConfig.cmake
    triangle-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "Triangle" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "Triangle_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "Triangle" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
  been installed.


Using builtin version of triangle...
-- Configuring done (19.2s)
-- Generating done (0.8s)
-- Build files have been written to: C:/repos/xfemm/cfemm

and some info on the crash in matlab :

Abnormal termination:
Access violation
Current Thread: 'MCR 0 interpreter thread' id 808

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x000000006f3d97af C:\repos\xfemm\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00104367 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00095087
[  1] 0x000000006f3db710 C:\repos\xfemm\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00112400 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00103120
[  2] 0x000000006f3de035 C:\repos\xfemm\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00122933 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00113653
[  3] 0x000000006f3df756 C:\repos\xfemm\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00128854 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00119574
[  4] 0x000000006f3c1a58 C:\repos\xfemm\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00006744 mexFunction+00001224
[  5] 0x00007ffaf2e98149 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmex.dll+00557385 mexfile::Inspector::needs_upgrade+00027305
[  6] 0x00007ffaf2e9bbf2 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmex.dll+00572402 MexRetrieveVersion+00011778
[  7] 0x00007ffaf2e9bd67 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmex.dll+00572775 MexRetrieveVersion+00012151
[  8] 0x00007ffaf2e9bf17 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmex.dll+00573207 MexRetrieveVersion+00012583
[  9] 0x00007ffaf2e7a2f2 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmex.dll+00434930 mexUnlock+00016914
[ 10] 0x00007ffaf33cc254                     bin\win64\pgo\m_dispatcher.dll+00639572 Mfh_file::dispatch_file_common+00000168
[ 11] 0x00007ffaf33cba16                     bin\win64\pgo\m_dispatcher.dll+00637462 Mfh_error::lookup+00002546
[ 12] 0x00007ffaf33cc1a5                     bin\win64\pgo\m_dispatcher.dll+00639397 Mfh_file::dispatch+00000045
[ 13] 0x00007ffaf2b81324 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmwlxemainservices.dll+00332580 mwboost::archive::codecvt_null<wchar_t>::do_always_noconv+00071588
[ 14] 0x00007ffaf2b8f720 C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\win64\libmwlxemainservices.dll+00390944 mwboost::archive::codecvt_null<wchar_t>::do_always_noconv+00129952

Would you have any suggestions? Could it be linked to the "CMake Warning at fmesher"?

@reos-rcrozier

Thanks!

[reos-rcrozier]

Suggest you try the v1.9 release, there's some issues with later versions

[pierrepesc]

Thanks for the suggestion @reos-rcrozier, unfortunately still unsuccessful...

• downloaded v1.9 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfemm/files/Release/
• ran cmake on cfemm
• ran mfemm_setup('RunTests',true)

Didnt realize the mex were already present in the mfemm folder (compared to latest v4.0) and got this error

Invalid MEX-file 'C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm_mingw_win64_v19\xfemm_mingw_win64\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.

• so ran instead mfemm_setup('ForceMexRecompile',true,'RunTests',true) to try and force the dll to behave and got same crash as before during the "RunTests' on fmesher:

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x00000000682df6df C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm_mingw_win64_v19\xfemm_mingw_win64\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00128735 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00118783
[  1] 0x00000000682e1640 C:\Users\hp\Downloads\xfemm_mingw_win64_v19\xfemm_mingw_win64\mfemm\xfemm_mex_files_for_win64\mexfmesher.mexw64+00136768 mexfilerequiredapiversion+00126816

Could it be that my Matlab and/or Windows version are the issue?

Configuration:
  Crash Decoding           : Disabled - No sandbox or build area path
  Crash Mode               : continue (default)
  Default Encoding         : UTF-8
  Deployed                 : false
  Graphics Driver          : NVIDIA Corporation Quadro 2000/PCIe/SSE2 Version 4.5.0 NVIDIA 376.84
  Graphics card 1          : NVIDIA ( 0x10de ) NVIDIA Quadro 2000 Version 21.21.13.7684 (2017-2-6)
  Java Version             : Java 1.8.0_202-b08 with Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM mixed mode
  MATLAB Architecture      : win64
  MATLAB Entitlement ID    : 6257193
  MATLAB Root              : C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a
  MATLAB Version           : 9.12.0.1884302 (R2022a)
  OpenGL                   : hardware
  Operating System         : Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
  Process ID               : 24960
  Processor ID             : x86 Family 6 Model 79 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
  Session Key              : e14c00f1-3a33-4dc1-9d50-e8e4c5d57f86
  Window System            : Version 10.0 (Build 19045)

Thanks
Pierre