[chuck-users] chugins will not load/compile using 1.4.0.0 on windows10

Fri May 25 14:20:42 EDT 2018

Compilation of Chugins on Windows has not been pretty. Right now the system
is designed so to allow a complete build from command line using some
version of the VS compiler and msbuild, but as I recall this entails an
elaborate and brittle setup of environment variables and $PATH
configuration. Any recommendations/pull requests for getting the system to
work a little more nicely would be welcome. Updating the build tools
version sounds like a good start.

When I have a moment I will look into this myself (I don't have a permanent
Windows set up), but Im also optimistic about Jack's workaround above.

Spencer

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Jack Atherton <lja at ccrma.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> Sorry to hear you went down that rabbit hole. I believe the intended
> action is to retarget the solution to whatever is on your machine for
> building the Chugins.
>
> I've just set up my own Windows machine within the last few days, and
> installed miniAudicle this morning. What I am seeing when I start the VM
> with log level = info is that miniAudicle is only looking in C:\Program
> Files\ChucK\chugins\ for the location of chugins, instead of looking in all
> the folders of the miniAudicle chugins preferences pane window. This is an
> old bug that I think we fixed at some point, but maybe the official
> installer didn't get updated yet. The installer actually installs the
> chugins at C:\Program Files (x86)\ChucK\chugins\ if you choose the default
> install location, so the temporary fix is to make a new folder C:\Program
> Files\ChucK\chugins\ and copy all of the chugins over into there.
>
> If you set the ChucK>Log Level>Info in the menu bar before starting the
> VM, you should be able to see a printout of where it is scanning for
> chugins and which ones it loads successfully in the console window. When I
> did this on my new laptop, I was able to get it to load all the provided
> chugins, and run a script using one of them without syntax errors.
>
> Again, sorry for the hassle. Let me know if this works.
>
> Best,
> Jack
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Ben Sandvik <bpsandvik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That kind of makes sense because when I have 1.3.5.2 installed there is a
>> chugins folder created that has a bunch of .CHUG files dated 10/21/2015.
>> These all work in 1.3.5.2.  However, I cant install or use any of the newer
>> chugins in 1.3.5.2 on Win10 and when upgrading to 1.4.0.0 none of them work.
>>
>> I have also tried to compile the chugins from the github repo as you
>> suggested, so far no luck and it has sent me down quite the rabbit hole
>> trying to find the right combination of Visual Studio versions, build
>> tools, SDKs, Windows 2010 compilers, etc. etc.  I am now stuck on build
>> errors that I just cant figure out.
>> The main issue with compiling the chugins in chuck 1.4.0.0 on Windows 10
>> seems to be the use of the v100 build tools in the makefile for each
>> chugin. I think I have installed every v100 related build tool on the
>> internet :)
>>
>>
>> running 'make win32' from mingw64 results in the following errors for the
>> ABSaturator (the first chugin in the makefile) and stops compiling:
>> "Build FAILED.
>> "C:\Users\Ben\chugins\ABSaturator\ABSaturator.vcxproj" (default target)
>> (1) ->
>> (PrepareForBuild target) -> C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(297,5):
>> warning MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry.
>> TargetFrameworkVersion or PlatformToolset may be set to an invalid version
>> number. [C:\Users\Ben\chugins\ABSaturator\ABSaturator.vcxproj]
>> "C:\Users\Ben\chugins\ABSaturator\ABSaturator.vcxproj" (default target)
>> (1) ->
>> (ClCompile target) -> C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4
>> .0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(153,5): error MSB6006:
>> "CL.exe" exited with code -1073741515. [C:\Users\Ben\chugins\ABSatura
>> tor\ABSaturator.vcxproj]"
>>
>> I noticed on the github that a fix on Jan 17 that changed the toolset of
>> each chugin from v141 to v100, so as an experiment I changed each line of
>> <PlatformToolset>v100</PlatformToolset> back to
>> <PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset> in the ABSaturator makefile.
>> Running make win32 resulted in a pretty verbose log and a statement in
>> mingw64 of a successful build for ABSaturator!!
>>
>> Next, running sudo make install resulted in the following:
>> $ make install
>> CHUCK_STRICT=1 make -C ABSaturator/ install
>> make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/Ben/chugins/ABSaturator'
>> gcc -O3 -Werror -c -o ABSaturator.o ABSaturator.cpp
>> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, gcc -O3 -Werror -c -o ABSaturator.o
>> ABSaturator.cpp, ...) failed.
>> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>>
>> So I moved the contents of ABSaturator/Release to ABSaturator/ and
>> changed the file name of ABSaturator.obj to ABSaturator.o and ran make
>> install again.  This time, no log of any ABSaturator activity.  I tried
>> using the chugin again in miniAudicle and got the same 'undefined type'
>> error.
>>
>> So ... are there any Windows 10 users or devs that have succesfully
>> installed and used the chugins for 1.4.0.0?  Any guidance would be
>> appreciated. Ihave basically used all my free time for a week on this.  I
>> really want to use the ArrayOutOfBounds line number features and to try out
>> the new NHHall reverb :)
>> Thanks
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:19 AM, Jack Atherton <lja at ccrma.stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am pretty sure that chugins that worked with 1.3.X have an internal
>>> version number that is incompatible with 1.4.0.0 -- the API for chugins
>>> changed. You could try recompiling the chugins from the chugin repo and
>>> seeing if that works. I am not sure if the Windows installer also installs
>>> chugins like the Mac installer does (at least, I'm pretty sure the Mac
>>> installer does).
>>>
>>> That sounds nasty about the log level crash. I wonder if it is something
>>> that happens when attempting to load incompatible chugins... we should
>>> probably fix it if that's what's going on!
>>>
>>> -Jack
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Ben Sandvik <bpsandvik at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> List,
>>>> I have been trying to update to chuck 1.4.0.0 for a few days, but I
>>>> can't get chugins to compile or load on Windows 10 64-bit using
>>>> miniAudicle.  I'm getting the "undefined type '...'  in declaration" error
>>>> message for every chugin when adding to the VM, including ones that had
>>>> been working correctly with 1.3.5.2.  Other .ck files that don't use
>>>> chugins seem to be working fine.  Here is what I have tried
>>>>
>>>> Downloaded the 1.4 executable and went through the standard
>>>> installation
>>>>
>>>> I have copied the files from the chugins GitHub zip file to:
>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32/ChucK
>>>> C:\ProgramFiles\ChucK\chugins
>>>> C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\ChucK\chugins
>>>>
>>>> and made sure the directory is listed under the chugins preferences in
>>>> miniAudicle.  Not sure which is best directory, just trying everything.
>>>> I have also tried just putting the github files for a specific chugin
>>>> in the same folder with an example .ck files.  Still the same error message.
>>>> If I uninstall 1.4 and re-install 1.3.5.2 the older chugins are working
>>>> fine, but newer ones like Wavetable and ExpEnv are not.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  Am I missing some obvious step during installation?  Is
>>>> there a Windows10-specific issue?
>>>> Also, not sure if this is related, but changing the Log Level to
>>>> anything other than System causes miniAudicle to crash when starting the vm.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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California Institute of the Arts

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