Error when installing acados for Matlab after downloading Github zip

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Dear sir/madame,

I followed the instructions on Installation — acados documentation.

But when I execute in the command window ‘acados_install_windows()’, I get the following error:

Error using acados_install_windows (line 63)
cmake command failed. Command was:
cmake.exe -G “MinGW Makefiles” -DACADOS_INSTALL_DIR=%ACADOS_INSTALL_DIR% -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DACADOS_WITH_OSQP=OFF
…

What could be the reason for this?

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Hi,
Is that the full error message?
Can you try to execute the cmake command manually in the generated code folder?
Please post the full error message formatted using three ``` symbols

like this

Best,
Jonathan

3

Dear FreyJo,

My apologies for my late reply. Yes, this is the full error message.

Do you mean to run
cmake.exe
in the command window of Matlab? What is the generated code folder?

4

By the way, here is the full output in the command window of Matlab (this might be useful information):

acados_install_windows()
Setting up environment PATH variable
Creating build dir in ...
Warning: Directory already exists. 
> In acados_install_windows (line 48) 
ACADOS_INSTALL_DIR is ...
Executing cmake configuration
cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DACADOS_INSTALL_DIR=%ACADOS_INSTALL_DIR% -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DACADOS_WITH_OSQP=OFF -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 ..
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:32 (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.


-- Build type is Release
-- ACADOS_WITH_OPENMP: OFF
CMake Error at external/CMakeLists.txt:48 (add_subdirectory):
  The source directory

    ....

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.


CMake Error at external/CMakeLists.txt:61 (add_subdirectory):
  The source directory

    ....

  does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.


--  
-- Target: BLASFEO is X64_AUTOMATIC, HPIPM is GENERIC
-- Linear algebra: HIGH_PERFORMANCE
-- Octave MEX (OFF)
-- System name:version Windows:10.0.19045
-- Build type is Release
-- Installation directory is ....
-- OpenMP parallelization is OFF
--  
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Error using acados_install_windows (line 69)
cmake command failed. Command was:
cmake.exe -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DACADOS_INSTALL_DIR=%ACADOS_INSTALL_DIR% -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DACADOS_WITH_OSQP=OFF -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 ..
5

Probably you didn’t clone the submodules.
Please do git submodule update --init --recursive and try again.

6

I directly downloaded the .zip from the GitHub website and just unzipped.

Is it possible to clone submodules without GitHub desktop?

7

I don’t see a way to include the submodules when dowloading the zip.
There are many other tools to clone git repositories, I used “git bash” on Windows.

8

Thank you very much for your help, using this in git bash worked!

9

Yea, GitHub does not automatically do a full clone for the auto-generated zip files. In OSQP, we ended up making a step in our release workflow at the time that would clone and fully initialize the submodules, then zip them and upload to the release as a full source archive to reduce user confusion.

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