problem of running PhysX3.4 in visual studio2017

3541466340 · January 26, 2018, 4:57am

I am new to PhysX, and I downloaded the PhysX3.4 and visual studio2017. I am using visual studio2017 to built the snippets.sln file in compiler folder. When I run it, I get the error shows:

Unable to start program ‘D:\physx\3.4\PhysX_3.4\Snippets\compiler\vc15win32./…/…/lib/vc15win32\SnippetUtilsDEBUG.lib’.

D:\physx\3.4\PhysX_3.4\Snippets\compiler\vc15win32./…/…/lib/vc15win32\SnippetUtilsDEBUG.lib is not a valid Win32 application.

What should I do to solve this problem?

Many thanks.

AlesBorovicka · January 28, 2018, 9:48am

Hi,
you are trying to execute a library… pick one of the executable like SnippetHelloWorld.

3541466340 · January 29, 2018, 1:02am

I try to build the SnippetHelloWorld.
The output shows:
3>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘PhysX3CommonDEBUG_x86.lib’
3>Done building project “SnippetHelloWorld.vcxproj” – FAILED.

I checked all the folders and I didn’t find the PhysX3CommonDEBUG_x86.lib.

kstorey · January 29, 2018, 9:34am

You need to build PhysX before you build the snippets. Please take a look at the readme.md file at the root of the PhysX distro.

3541466340 · January 29, 2018, 10:04am

Thank you! I’m sorry I didn’t see the document clearly. If anyone has the same problem, please read it first.

github.com

NVIDIAGameWorks/PhysX-3.4/blob/master/PhysX_3.4/Documentation/PlatformReadme/windows/readme_windows.html

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>ReadMe Windows</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>
<h1 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">NVIDIA<sup>&reg;</sup> PhysX<sup>&reg;</sup> SDK for Windows ReadMe</h1>

<blockquote>
	<h4>Location of win32 and win64 Binaries:</h4>
	<ul>
		<li>SDK DLLs: Bin/</li>
		<li>SDK LIBs: Lib/</li>
		<li>NVTX Profiler DLLs: Bin/</li>
		<li>PhysX Device DLLs: Bin/</li>
	</ul>

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patrick.huangcheng · October 19, 2018, 5:34pm

Hi, I’ve got the same issue with debugging Snippets, but I’ve built PhysX beforehand. Also, I have built and run Samples with PhysX Visual Debugger successfully.
My IDE is VS2015, as there are failures if compiling with VS2017 though.
Thanks for helping.

patrick.huangcheng · October 21, 2018, 5:23pm

Encountered linking issue after compiling PhysX solution vc15win64 with VS2017 Version:15.8.7

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error LNK1104 cannot open file ‘G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PxShared\lib\vc15win64\PxPvdSDKDEBUG_x64.lib’ PhysX G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PhysX_3.4\Source\compiler\vc15win64\LINK 1

Issue fixed by set Treat Warnings As Erors as No on all projects of PhysX.sln

AlesBorovicka · October 22, 2018, 6:09am

Hi,
are there any errors when you try to build the PxPvdSDK?

problem of running PhysX3.4 in visual studio2017

D:\physx\3.4\PhysX_3.4\Snippets\compiler\vc15win32./…/…/lib/vc15win32\SnippetUtilsDEBUG.lib is not a valid Win32 application.

Encountered linking issue after compiling PhysX solution vc15win64 with VS2017 Version:15.8.7

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error LNK1104 cannot open file ‘G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PxShared\lib\vc15win64\PxPvdSDKDEBUG_x64.lib’ PhysX G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PhysX_3.4\Source\compiler\vc15win64\LINK 1

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error LNK1104 cannot open file ‘G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PxShared\lib\vc15win64\PxPvdSDKDEBUG_x64.lib’ PhysX G:\Projects\Nvidia\PhysX-3.4-master\PhysX_3.4\Source\compiler\vc15win64\LINK 1