Help regarding building the "SoftRobots" Plugin and "STLIB" plugin.

[SarasVibhuti]

Respected,

I am using ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa). I have tried building the SOFA v22.12.00 (python=3.8.10, pybind11=2.6.2, Qt 5.12.0) for my research project as per this repo "https://github.com/StanfordASL/soft-robot-control". I guess these steps are clear and to the point.
[Run cmake-gui to run the CMake GUI.

Set the source path to $HOME/sofa/src and the build path to $HOME/sofa/build. Make sure the path to installation of Qt is correct by adding an entry CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and setting it to the appropriate location (e.g. /home/jlorenze/Qt/5.15.0/gcc_64).

Run Configure, and set the compiler according to the instructions here.

Then, add entry SOFA_BUILD_METIS and enable it.

Find the entry SOFA_EXTERNAL_DIRECTORIES and set it to $HOME/sofa-plugins where $HOME is replaced with the actual path (e.g. /home/jlorenze/).

Also, add and enable entry SOFTROBOTS_IGNORE_ERRORS which will allow SoftRobots to compile without the STLIB library.

Next, set filepath entry pybind11_DIR to $HOME/anaconda3/envs/sofa/share/cmake/pybind11.

Ensure the following bool entries are activated (PLUGIN_SOFTROBOTS, PLUGIN_SOFAPYTHON3, PLUGIN_STLIB)

Run Configure again (should complete with no errors), and then run Generate.

To build (use -j flag to use all cores):

cd $HOME/sofa/build
make -j
make install

Test that Sofa launches by running $SOFA_BLD/bin/runSofa -l $SP3_BLD/lib/libSofaPython3.so]

SOFA is launching well with the snake simulation but, issue is even after following the above steps, or the one mentioned in "https://project.inria.fr/softrobot/install-get-started-2/building-on-linux/" SoftRobots plugin is not getting built.
The error reads "[ERROR] [RequiredPlugin(SoftRobots)] Plugin not found: "SoftRobots"".
Directory of Sofa.SimpleApi does not exist under sofa/build/install/lib/cmake. Any attempt to improve upon CMakeLists.txt under the src directory leads to series of numerous errors in cmake-gui configuring.
Please help me with the proper steps in building the SoftRobots plugin so that I can continue with my research. Resolving this will help me to simulate the diamond plugin.
Also, guide me with the correct steps in STLIB building as I am sure that is also not build.
The attached snapshots refers the list of plugins built implying the plugins of SoftRobots and STLIB not built and the terminal errors.
Regards

[alxbilger]

Hi, it's not clear to me if you built only SOFA or if you also checked out SoftRobots, which is in a different repository. What steps did you follow to build SoftRobots?

I recommend to read the following doc page: https://sofa-framework.github.io/doc/plugins/build-a-plugin-from-sources/