# Building Shapeworks from Source **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 12, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/building-shapeworks-from-source/192 "2023-12-12T02:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![acreegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@acreegan](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/acreegan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/building-shapeworks-from-source/192/1 "2023-12-12T02:00:19Z")
I would like to make some contributions to Shapeworks but am having trouble setting up a developer environment. I am running Windows 11 and trying to follow the instructions [here](https://sciinstitute.github.io/ShapeWorks/6.3/dev/build.html#windows_1). Here are the steps I have taken: - CMake, Visual Studio, and Anaconda are already installed. I forked the Shapeworks repository and cloned it to my PC. - With conda activated in Powershell, run install\_shapeworks.bat. Then run conda activate shapeworks - In git bash, run ./build\_dependencies. This resulted in an error: Could not find boost. I gather this is because install\_shapeworks.bat does not install the developer dependencies. - So, in git bash, I activated conda, then ran source install\_shapeworks.sh - Ran ./build\_dependencies. Seemed to run fine this time. Took about 1 hour. The end of my build\_dependencies.log looks like this: ```auto Dependency paths: VTK_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.1 ITK_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install/lib/cmake/ITK-5.2 EIGEN_DIR: OpenVDB_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install/lib/cmake/OpenVDB/ LIBIGL_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install/libigl/cmake GEOMETRY_CENTRAL_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install/geometry-central ACVD_DIR: /c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install ## To configure ShapeWorks, create a build directory and from there run... cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS= -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/c/g/shapeworks_dev/dependencies/install -DUSE_OPENMP=ON -Wno-dev -Wno-deprecated -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release /c/g/shapeworks_dev real 60m24.389s user 0m0.060s sys 0m0.289s ``` - Installed version 6.6.1 of open source QT. Added C:\Qt\6.6.1\msvc2019\_64\bin to my Path environment variable. - Created a directory named build, then entered it and ran the exact cmake command from the build\_dependencies output. - Ran start shapeworks.sln. In visual studio, set configuration to release. Build ran with 32 succeeded, 0 failed, 2 skipped. - Back in git bash, ran cmake -P cmake\_install.cmake (Not sure if this is needed?) Redulted in error, cannot find C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vcruntime140\_1.dll. Pasted this dll into this location from the ITK installation in conda. cmake script then ran fine. - Ran source …/devenv.sh ./bin/Release/ - Ran ctest -C Release. Resulted in 40% pass: ```auto Test project C:/g/shapeworks_dev/build Start 1: ImageTests 1/10 Test #1: ImageTests ....................... Passed 61.40 sec Start 2: MeshTests 2/10 Test #2: MeshTests ........................ Passed 25.21 sec Start 3: GroomTests 3/10 Test #3: GroomTests .......................Exit code 0xc0000135 ***Exception: 0.03 sec Start 4: OptimizeTests 4/10 Test #4: OptimizeTests ....................Exit code 0xc0000135 ***Exception: 0.03 sec Start 5: PythonTests 5/10 Test #5: PythonTests ......................***Failed 41.59 sec Start 6: ParticlesTests 6/10 Test #6: ParticlesTests ................... Passed 6.10 sec Start 7: ProjectTests 7/10 Test #7: ProjectTests .....................Exit code 0xc0000135 ***Exception: 0.03 sec Start 8: UseCaseTests 8/10 Test #8: UseCaseTests .....................***Failed 13.29 sec Start 9: shapeworksTests 9/10 Test #9: shapeworksTests ..................***Failed 6.65 sec Start 10: UtilsTests 10/10 Test #10: UtilsTests ....................... Passed 0.04 sec 40% tests passed, 6 tests failed out of 10 Total Test time (real) = 154.41 sec ``` - Importing shapeworks in python results in the following error: ```auto Python 3.9.13 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, May 27 2022, 16:50:36) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shapeworks Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\g\shapeworks_dev\Python\shapeworks\shapeworks\ __init__.py", line 5, in from shapeworks_py import * ImportError: DLL load failed while importing shapeworks_py: The specified module could not be found. ``` ---
**Author:** ![amorris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amorris](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/amorris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/building-shapeworks-from-source/192/2 "2024-01-18T17:12:55Z")
I am surprised it build with Qt6 with no changes, but that’s great. All of your test errors are likely related to the python module loading. It’s a little more difficult on windows. You may need to add the shapeworks bin directory to both %PATH% and %PYTHONPATH%.