Module importing (C++) --- ERROR "module file mapping invalid" - c++

ImageLoader.cpp // ERROR:E3344 module file mapping for 'SafeReleaseM' is invalid
import SafeReleaseM;
import <wincodec.h>;
import <d2d1.h>;
class ImageLoader{};
SafeReleaseM.ixx
export module SafeReleaseM;
export template <class T> void SafeRelease(T** type)
{
if (*type)
{
(*type)->Release();
*type = NULL;
}
}
I've set the standard to the latest C++ standard and C standard, added my source folder to module dependency directory, enabled scanning for modules.
In my head, this is a very basic test of modules, am I doing something wrong? I'm new to S.O, so if i should add additional settings information, please do tell.
EDIT: I am using Visual Studio 2022 Community (msvc)
EDIT #2: In a separate project, a similar approach worked exporting a template function. Perhaps there is an issue with my project configuration.

Creating a new project and pasting the same code in worked.
Not sure what gave Visual Studio file mapping issues, but what i did differently was in a new project, I created the files through the solution explorer window. - Error might've been dependency/configuration related. Or caused by an update.

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Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path for Default.rd.xml file

I was trying to do unit testing for UWP App. When I added target application reference in Test project, the following error is giving while running the test method
Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path'Properties\Default.rd.xml'.Source files: D:\Test\MyAppTesting\Properties\Default.rd.xml D:\Test\MyApp\Properties\Default.rd.xml
No error code was given.
adding refernce
public class MyAppTesting
{
[Fact]
public async void PassingWinAppServiceTest()
{
AgendaService agendaService = new AgendaService();
var memberModel = await agendaService.GetMemberDetailsById("234");
Assert.False(String.IsNullOrEmpty(memberModel.MemberId.ToString()));
}
The only workaround I found is to remove the Default.rd.xml file from the test project.
Comments from the developer community for similar issue.
From the documentation of Runtime Directive Configuration file,
A runtime directives (.rd.xml) file is an XML configuration file that
specifies whether designated program elements are available for
reflection.
So, if reflection is not used in the test project then I believe, Default.rd.xml file can be safely removed from the test project.
After installing the NuGet, you need to add an existing project reference into the unit test project.
[right click test project -> Add -> Reference-> select an existing project}
Then check your test project dependencies, Your existing project should be there.

How unit test logic in xamarin forms with a separated console project with F#?

I have a complete new/empty project with xamarin.forms 2.3.4 with F#.
I have a shared project, with a extra module for the logic:
module Db
let openDb() =
printf "Hello"
Then I create a console project, reference the shared project & related libraries, and try to run it:
open Db
[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =
Db.openDb()
0
Now I getting this error:
../Test/Tests.fs(6,6): Error FS0039: The namespace or module 'Db' is not defined. Maybe you want one of the following: XDB (FS0039) (Test)
I not getting any other error. I try both with xamarin & Visual Studio Mac; and also creating a UI test project (however, I only care for logic testing).
This is an empty form project without anything else.
P.D: I make it to work if a just delete the reference to the shared project and link manually the files. However, I wonder if is possible to cover this scenario...
Is there an EntryPoint file under the file that defines the module?
The location of the file can be changed with alt +up arrow and alt +down arrow(win + visual studio) or Db.fs(in Solution Explorer) is right click -> Move up
F# is readed file from up to down.(See "Projects and Solutions" on this site )
It Maybe that(win10 ,visual studio 2017)
Db.fs is difine module. There is an entry EntryPoint program.fs.
Also, if the namespace and the module name are the same, an error will occur. module name for this project is Bar.

Roslyn workspace.OpenSolutionAsync().Projects always empty?

I'm trying to create a self-hosted WebAPI 2.0 project that allows you to open/explore/build .sln solutions through an API.
Here's the code within one of my controllers, that's supposed to return a list of projects given a path to the .sln:
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> GetProjects(string slnPath = "")
{
var workspace = MSBuildWorkspace.Create();
var solution = await workspace.OpenSolutionAsync(slnPath);
var projects = solution.Projects;
}
I would expect projects to hold the projects in the solution, but according to the debugger, solution.Projects and solution.ProjectIds always seem to be empty.
I've tried this with multiple .sln files, all of which I can open in Visual Studio and see that they have projects in them.
I've seen this question, but my project isn't a Visual Studio add in, it's a class library called from a command line application.
This is generally caused by one of a few things, in order of commonality:
You are missing copies of Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces.dll or Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.Workspaces.dll. Make sure when you are running your project that those DLLs are next to the main Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Workspaces.dll.
You're loading solutions with project types we don't support. We should support any project type except the project-less Web Site projects. Class libraries should work just fine.
We have a bug that's causing us to mis-handle your particular project types. If that's the case, file a bug on GitHub.
If you are getting this issue in unit tests but not in your production code, ensure that you have referenced both Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.dll and Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces in your test project.
JYL mentioned it in the comments of the selected answer but I didnt see it right away.

How to get a python .pyd for Windows from c/c++ source code? (update: brisk now in Python in case that's what you want)

How to get from C/C++ extension source code to a pyd file for windows (or other item that I could import to Python)?
edit: The specific library that I wanted to use (BRISK) was included in OpenCV 2.4.3 so my need for this skill went away for the time being. In case you came here looking for BRISK, here is a simple BRISK in Python demo that I posted.
I have the Brisk source code (download) that I would like to build and use in my python application. I got as far as generating a brisk.pyd file... but it was 0 bytes. If there is a better / alternative way to aiming for a brisk.pyd file, then of course I am open to that as well.
edit: Please ignore all the attempts in my original question below and see my answer which was made possible by obmarg's detailed walkthrough
Where am I going wrong?
Distutils without library path: First I tried to build the source as is with distutils and the following setup.py (I have just started learning distutils so this is a shot in the dark). The structure of the BRISK source code is at the bottom of this question for reference.
from distutils.core import setup, Extension
module1 = Extension('brisk',
include_dirs = ['include', 'C:/opencv2.4/build/include', 'C:/brisk/thirdparty/agast/include'],
#libraries = ['agast_static', 'brisk_static'],
#library_dirs = ['win32/lib'],
sources = ['src/brisk.cpp'])
setup (name = 'BriskPackage',
ext_modules = [module1])
That instantly gave me the following lines and a 0 byte brisk.pyd somewhere in the build folder. So close?
running build
running build_ext
Distutils with library path: Scratch that attempt. So I added the two library lines that are commented out in the above setup.py. That seemed to go ok until I got this linking error:
creating build\lib.win32-2.7
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:win32/lib /LIB
PATH:C:\Python27_32bit\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Python27_32bit\PCbuild agast_static.lib brisk_static.lib /EXPORT:initbrisk build
\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src/brisk.obj /OUT:build\lib.win32-2.7\brisk.pyd /IMPLIB:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\brisk.
lib /MANIFESTFILE:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\brisk.pyd.manifest
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol initbrisk
build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\brisk.lib : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
error: command '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\link.exe"' failed with exit status 1120
Uncontrolled flailing: I thought maybe the libraries needed to be built, so I did a crash course (lots of crashing) with cmake + mingw - mingw + vc++ express 2010 as follows:
cmake gui: source: c:/brisk, build: c:/brisk/build
cmake gui: configure for Visual Studio 10
cmake gui: use default options and generate (CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY, CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH, LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH)
VC++ Express 10: Change to Release and build the solution generated by cmake and get about 20 pages of what look like non-critical warnings followed by all succeeded. Note - no dlls are generated by this. It does generate the following libraries of similar size to the ones included with the download:
win32/lib/Release/
agast_static.lib
brisk_static.lib
Further flailing.
Relevant BRISK source file structure for reference:
build/ (empty)
include/brisk/
brisk.h
hammingsse.hpp
src
brisk.cpp
demo.cpp
thirdparty/agast/
include/agast/
agast5_8.h ....
cvWrapper.h
src/
agast5_8.cc ...
CMakeLists.txt
win32/
bin/
brisk.mexw32
opencv_calib3d220.dll ...
lib/
agast_static.lib
brisk_static.lib
CMakeLists.txt
FindOpenCV.cmake
Makefile
Are you sure that this brisk library even exports python bindings? I can't see any reference to it in the source code - it doesn't even seem to import python header files. This would certainly explain why you've not had much success so far - you can't just compile plain C++ code and expect python to interface with it.
I think your second distutils example is closest to correct - it's obviously compiling things and getting to the linker stage, but then you encounter this error. That error just means it can't find a function named initbrisk which I'm guessing would be the top level init function for the module. Again this suggests that you're trying to compile a python module from code that isn't meant for it.
If you want to wrap the C++ code in a python wrapper yourself you could have a look at the official documentation on writing c/c++ extensions. Alternatively you could have a look into boost::python, SIP or shiboken which try to somewhat (or completely) automate the process of making python extensions from C++ code.
EDIT: Since you seem to have made a decent amount of effort to solve the problem yourself and have posted a good question, I've decided to give a more detailed response on how to go about doing this.
Quick Tutorial On Wrapping C++ Libraries Using boost::python
Personally I've only ever used boost::python for stuff like this, so I'll try and give you a good summary of how to go about doing that. I'm going to assume that you're using Visual C++ 2010. I'm also going to assume that you've got a 32bit version of python installed, as I believe the boost pro libraries only provide 32bit binaries.
Installing boost
First you'll need to grab a copy of the boost library. The easiest way to do this is to download an installer from the boost pro website. These should install all the header files and binary files that are required for using the boost c++ library on windows. Take note of where you install these files to, as you'll need them later on - it might be best to install to a path without a space in it. For easyness I'm going to assume you put these files in C:\boost but you can substitute that for the path you actually used.
Alternatively, you can follow these instructions to build boost from source. I'm not 100% sure, but it might be the case that you need to do this in order to get a version of boost::python that is compatible with the version of python you have installed.
Setting up a visual studio project
Next, you'll want to setup a visual studio project for brisk.pyd. If you open visual studio, go to New -> Project then find the option for Win32 Project. Set up your location etc. and click ok. In the wizard that appears select a DLL project type, and then tick the empty project checkbox.
Now that you've created your project, you'll need to set up the include & library paths to allow you to use python, boost::python and the brisk.lib file.
In Visual Studios solution explorer, right click on your project, and select properties from the menu that appears. This should open up the property pages for your project. Go to the Linker -> General section and look for the Additional Library Directories section. You'll need to fill this in with the paths to the .lib files for boost, python and your brisk_static.lib. Generally these can be found in lib (or libs) subdirectories of
wherever you've installed the libraries. Paths are seperated with semicolons. I've attached a screenshot of my settings below:
Next, you'll need to get visual studio to link to the .lib files. These sections can be found in the Additional Dependencies field of the Linker -> Input section of the properties. Again it's a semicolon delimited list. You should need to add in libraries for python (in my case this is python27.lib but this will vary by version) and brisk_static.lib. These do not require the full path as you added that in the previous stage. Again, here's a screenshot:
You may also need to add the boost_python library file but I think boost uses some header file magic to save you the trouble. If I'm incorrect then have a look in you boost library path for a file named similar to boost_python-vc100-mt.lib and add that in.
Finally, you'll need to setup the include paths to allow your project to include the relevant C++ header files. To get the relevant settings to appear in project properties, you'll need to add a .cpp file to your project. Right click the source files folder in your solution explorer, and then go to add new item. Select a C++ File (.cpp) and name it main.cpp (or whatever else you want).
Next, go back to your project properties and go to C/C++ -> General. Under the additional libraries directory you need to add the include paths for brisk, python and boost. Again, semicolons for seperators, and again here's a screenshot:
I suspect that you might need to update these settings to include the opencv2 & agast libraries as well but I'll leave that as a task for you to figure out - it should be much the same process.
Wrapping existing c++ classes with boost::python.
Now comes the slightly trickier bit - actually writing C++ to wrap your brisk library in boost python. You can find a tutorial for this here but i'll try and go over it a bit as well.
This will be taking place in the main.cpp file you created earlier. First, add the relevant include statements you'll need at the top of the file:
#include <brisk/brisk.h>
#include <Python.h>
#include <boost/python.hpp>
Next, you'll need to declare your python module. I'm assuming you'd want this to be called brisk, so you do something like this:
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(brisk)
{
}
This should tell boost::python to create a python module named brisk.
Next it's just a case of going through all the classes & structs that you want to wrap and declaring boost python classes with them. The declerations of the classes should all be contained in brisk.h. You should only wrap the public members of a class, not any protected or private members. As a quick example, I've done a couple of the structs here:
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(brisk)
{
using namespace boost::python;
class_< cv::BriskPatternPoint >( "BriskPatternPoint" )
.def_readwrite("x", &cv::BriskPatternPoint::x)
.def_readwrite("y", &cv::BriskPatternPoint::y)
.def_readwrite("sigma", &cv::BriskPatternPoint::sigma);
class< cv::BriskScaleSpace >( "BriskScaleSpace", init< uint8_t >() )
.def( "constructPyramid", &cv::BriskScaleSpace::constructPyramid );
}
Here I have wrapped the cv::BriskPatternPoint structure and the cv::BriskScaleSpace class. Some quick explanations:
class_< cv::BriskPatternPoint >( "BriskPatternPoint" ) tells boost::python to declare a class, using the cv::BriskPatternPoint C++ class, and expose it as BriskPatternPoint in python.
.def_readwrite("y", &cv::BriskPatternPoint::y) adds a readable & writeable property to the BriskPatternPoint class. The property is named y, and will map to the BriskPatternPoint::y c++ field.
class< cv::BriskScaleSpace >( "BriskScaleSpace", init< uint8_t >() ) declares another class, this time BriskScaleSpace but also provides a constructor that accepts a uint8_t (an unsigned byte - which should just map to an integer in python, but I'd be careful to not pass in one greater than 255 bytes - I don't know what would happen in that situation)
The following .def line just declares a function - boost::python should (I think) be able to determine the argument types of functions automatically, so you don't need to provide them.
It's probably worth noting that I haven't actually compiled any of these examples - they might well not work at all.
Anyway, to get this fully working in python it should just be a case of doing similar for every structure, class, property & function that you want accessible from python - which is potentially quite a time consuming task!
If you want to see another example of this in action, I did this here to wrap up this class
Building & using the extension
Visual studio should take care of building the extension - then using it is just a case of taking the .DLL and renaming it to .pyd (you can get VS to do this for you, but I'll leave that up to you).
Then you just need to copy your python file to somewhere on your python path (site-packages for example), import it and use it!
import brisk
patternPoint = brisk.BriskPatternPoint()
....
Anyway, I have spent a good hour or so writing this out - so I'm going to stop here. Apologies if I've left anything out or if anything isn't clear, but I'm doing this mostly from memory. Hopefully it's been of some help to you. If you need anything clarified please just leave a comment, or ask another question.
In case someone needs it, this what I have so far. Basically a BriskFeatureDetector that can be created in Python and then have detect called. Most of this is just confirming/copying what obmarg showed me, but I have added the details that get all the way to the pyd library.
The detect method is still incomplete for me though since it does not convert data types. Anyone who knows a good way to improve this, please do! I did find, for example, this library which seems to convert a numpy ndarray to a cv::Mat, but I don't have the time to figure out how to integrate it now. There are also other data types that need to be converted.
Install OpenCV 2.2
for the setup below, I installed to C:\opencv2.2
Something about the API or implementation has changed by version 2.4 that gave me problems (maybe the new Algorithm object?) so I stuck with 2.2 which BRISK was developed with.
Install Boost with Boost Python
for the setup below, I installed to C:\boost\boost_1_47
Create a Visual Studio 10 Project:
new project --> win32
for the setup below, I named it brisk
next --> DLL application type; empty project --> finished
at the top, change from Debug Win32 to Release Win32
Create main.cpp in Source Files
Do this before the project settings so the C++ options become available in the project settings
#include <boost/python.hpp>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <brisk/brisk.h>
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(brisk)
{
using namespace boost::python;
//this long mess is the only way I could get the overloaded signatures to be accepted
void (cv::BriskFeatureDetector::*detect_1)(const cv::Mat&,
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint, std::allocator<cv::KeyPoint>>&,
const cv::Mat&) const
= &cv::BriskFeatureDetector::detect;
void (cv::BriskFeatureDetector::*detect_vector)(const std::vector<cv::Mat, std::allocator<cv::Mat>>&,
std::vector< std::vector< cv::KeyPoint, std::allocator<cv::KeyPoint>>, std::allocator< std::vector<cv::KeyPoint, std::allocator<cv::KeyPoint>>>>&,
const std::vector<cv::Mat, std::allocator<cv::Mat>>&) const
= &cv::BriskFeatureDetector::detect;
class_< cv::BriskFeatureDetector >( "BriskFeatureDetector", init<int, int>())
.def( "detect", detect_1)
;
}
Project Settings (right-click on the project --> properties):
Includes / Headers
Configuration Properties --> C/C++ --> General
add to Additional Include Directories (adjust to your own python / brisk / etc. base paths):
C:\opencv2.2\include;
C:\boost\boost_1_47;
C:\brisk\include;C:\brisk\thirdparty\agast\include;
C:\python27\include;
Libraries (linker)
Configuration Properties --> Linker --> General
add to Additional Library Directories (adjust to your own python / brisk / etc. base paths):
C:\opencv2.2\lib;
C:\boost\boost_1_47\lib;
C:\brisk\win32\lib;
C:\python27\Libs;
Configuration Properties --> Linker --> Input
add to Additional Dependencies (adjust to your own python / brisk / etc. base paths):
opencv_imgproc220.lib;opencv_core220.lib;opencv_features2d220.lib;
agast_static.lib; brisk_static.lib;
python27.lib;
.pyd output instead of .dll
Configuration Properties --> General
change Target Extension to .pyd
Build and rename if necessary
Right-click on the solution and build/rebuild
you may need to rename the output from "Brisk.pyd" to "brisk.pyd" or else python will give you errors about not being able to load the DLL
Make brisk.pyd available to python by putting it in site packages or by putting a .pth file that links to its path
Update Path environment variable
In windows settings, make sure the following are included in your path (again, adjust to your paths):
`C:\boost\boost_1_47\lib;C:\brisk\win32\bin`

building boost python examples using Visual Studio 2008

I'm using Boost Python library to create python extensions to my C++ code. I'd like to be able to invoke from python the 'greet' function from the C++ code shown below:
#include <boost/python/module.hpp>
#include <boost/python/def.hpp>
char const* greet()
{
return "hello, world";
}
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(hello_ext)
{
using namespace boost::python;
def("greet", greet);
}
And the python code :
import hello_ext
print hello_ext.greet()
I've managed to do this using the bjam (hello_ext.pyd is generated and it works nice), but now I'd like to build it using Visual Studio 2008. A hello.dll gets built (but neither hello_ext.dll nor any .pyd). After invoking my python code I get an error:
ImportError: No module named hello_ext.
After renaming the hello.dll to hello.pyd or hello_ext.pyd, I get another ImportError: Dll load failed
How can I build the correct .pyd file using VS 2008?
Firstly, make sure you only try to import the release version from Python; importing the debug version will fail because the runtime library versions don't match. I also change my project properties so that the release version outputs a .pyd file:
Properties >> Linker >> Output:
$(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).pyd
(I also create a post-build action to run unit tests from python)
Next, make sure you define the following in your stdafx.h file:
#define BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB
Lastly, if you have more than one python version installed, make sure that you're importing the right version of python.h (in Tools >> Options >> Projects and Solutions >> VC++ Directories >> Include Files).
The error ImportError: Dll load failed usually means that your .pyd module depends on other DLLs that couldn't be found - often msvc*.dll. You may want to try opening the .pyd file in Notepad and searching for ".dll". Then check if all of the DLL dependencies exist in your directory or PATH.
Or use Dependency Walker which will find missing dependencies for you
Even though this is a question issued several years ago(still not easy to find solution), but I meet the same problem today, and after hours searching, finally I found a feasible solution.
The reason is just as simple as which is noticed by #AndiDog, the .pyd file you build depends on some other .dll;
In my case, It's boost_python-vc120-mt-1_58.dll under the folder [C++ boost folder]/stage/lib/
So, what I do is to copy this file, and paste it under the .pyd file folder, and then my python can properly import the project I build .
maybe there are some other solutions, that is build your project not depend on dynamic library, use static library instead. some of the source said to define BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB in VS Preprocessor, then your project will not depend on dynamic library(I am a new C++er), but be sure you have build libboost_python-vcXXX-mt-1_58.dll in boost.
to define Preprocessor, the route is:C/C++->Preprocessor->Preprocessor Definitions->edit BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB
Please make sure you have flag -lpython26 (if you are using python2.6) and filename should be hello_ext.pyd in your case.