Linking to SuiteSparse on Windows

[Arturo Flores]

I am still having trouble building ceres on windows with suitesparse.  I have a few unanswered posts from the past few days.  I've made some progress but still not quite there.

Some details of my environment:

* Windows 7 (64 bit)

* Visual Studio 2012 (64 bit build)

* cmake 3.0.0

I am able to succesfully build (using cmake) the dependencies: gflag, glog, gtest, suitesparse-metis .

I am using suitesparse from https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows .  From the instructions in the readme.md file, I copied their FindsuiteSparse.cmake and replaced the FindSuiteSparse.cmake file that comes with ceres-solver .  I also modified ceres-solver's CMakeLists.txt file and removed the section that tries to find lapack and blas.  I also replaced the snippet of code to find SuiteSparse with the snippet provided in SuiteSparse's readme.md file ( section 3. Integration in your code ).

With the changes mentioned above cmake is able to find all the required libraries.  However, it does not set a variable or #define that some of the ceres-solver code is expecting: I now get an error when attempting to build ceres:

solver_utils.cc(57): error C2065: 'CERES_SUITESPARSE_VERSION' : undeclared identifier

Has anyone had success building ceres on windows with suitesparse?  Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

I have taken a look at the solution file here https://github.com/tbennun/ceres-windows .  My only concern with this one is it does not include any of the tests so you cannot verify if the build.

Arturo

[hwdo...@gmail.com]

You can add this line to CMakelist.txt:

          add_definitions(-DSUITESPARSE_VERSION ${SUITESPARSE_VERSION})