MSVC only: Error C3203: unspecialized class template ... (works fine on MAC)

[Morphoice]

@d-healey one. it'a a freshly installed pc, HISE has just been pulled from github and built

[d.healey]

@Morphoice Did you build the develop branch?

[Morphoice]

@d-healey yes sir

[d.healey]

@Morphoice In that case it could be just that Christoph hasn't updated the git hash so don't worry about it.

[Morphoice]

@d-healey well it does produce hundreds of compiler errors though ...

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey if I forget to update the git it will not show this message, it just doesn‘t show the correct git in the about window.

That message means that there is a mismatch between the source code git hash and the compiled version.

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart but how can I resolve this? I just compiled it again from the sourcecode and it still shows the message...

[Christoph Hart]

@Morphoice where does your HisePath setting point to?

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart C:\HISE which is where github put the source... I'm just doing it again from scratch

[d.healey]

@Morphoice And when you run HISE you're running it from within that same folder?

[Morphoice]

@d-healey yes directly from the build directory.... I did it all over again, now github complains there is a filename too long when I try to clone my project onto the new pc.
I have to give up for the day, I need to go to work now. barkeeping. drinking. and vice versa.

[Morphoice]

@d-healey so the c++ error could be fixed thanks to christoph, there was actually a json file missing to hold some info about the third party node hence the DspNetworks.h was created wrongly...

as suggested by christoph to work with github rather than dropbox i managed to compile the the network on the pc, now attempting to compile the final plugin. fingers crossed, third day's the charm ;) (hopefully)

[Morphoice]

@d-healey deleting shit multiple times and fetching it all over, compiling it all over in the end resolved the hash mismatch error.... though I wish I could exactly pinpoint what went wrong the first time, I guess it just is what it is sometimes, just fidding about

[Lindon]

@Morphoice said in MSVC only: Error C3203: unspecialized class template ... (works fine on MAC):

@d-healey so the c++ error could be fixed thanks to christoph, there was actually a json file missing to hold some info about the third party node hence the DspNetworks.h was created wrongly...

as suggested by christoph to work with github rather than dropbox i managed to compile the the network on the pc, now attempting to compile the final plugin. fingers crossed, third day's the charm ;) (hopefully)

So please tell us which json file was missing and what it contains...

[Christoph Hart]

@Lindon the one I‘ve posted above.

[griffinboy]

@Morphoice

Yep indeed.
The json isn't automatically generated when using 3rd party stuff or copying across nodes

[Christoph Hart]

@griffinboy actually I could add a warning message if there are third party nodes without the properties, that would save us some troubleshooting.

[griffinboy]

@Christoph-Hart

Hey that's a good idea, please do!

[Morphoice]

@Christoph-Hart Good idea! Had I known I probably wouldn't have caused the fuzz. It worked fine on MAC, that was the confusing part. Also thanks for the github idea, it's cumbersome. but seems to keep the build files clean. Another crucial takeaway was compiling the third party nodes WITHOUT (disable AllowCompilation) the network first, then restart and compile the DspNetwork, it wouldn't work otherwise.... maybe that would be worth another warning somewhere ;))

Thanks to everyone who helped me find the solutions to the various issues and overcome my frustration to pull through. It was only three days of work and we got there in the end, I learned another bunch of things that will sure make things easier for me in the future. Also started a C++ course lol

[Morphoice]

@Lindon there's a menu item to create a third party node c++ template, which also creates a node_properties.json

in my case it contains

{
  "Disintegrate": [
    "IsPolyphonic",
    "AllowPolyphonic"
  ]
}

which apparently is the information HISE needs to create the DspNetworks.h file correctly. Otherwise it would have missing some parameters causing them nasty compiler errors I couldn't make heads or tales of...

I created the third party node files manually, so the json wasn't there. Had never heard of that before and on MAC it never made a difference, but the PC seemed to take offence ;)