file INSTALL cannot find on Windows

[ChikaYan]

Hi,

Thank you for this great package! I'm trying to follow the readme to compile and install it on a Windows machine, however, I'm getting errors during the install stage.

Namely, I followed:

> BUILD_DIR=build
> mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR && cmake -B $BUILD_DIR . && cmake --build $BUILD_DIR -j
> cmake --install $BUILD_DIR

Which runs file for --build (although I got a bunch of warnings such as warning C5045: Compiler will insert Spectre mitigation for memory load if /Qspectre switch specified from this package and warning C4514: 'google::protobuf::Descr iptor::reserved_range_count': unreferenced inline function has been removed from protobuf). However, when I try to run cmake --install $BUILD_DIR, I got:

-- Install configuration: "Release"
CMake Error at build/cmake_install.cmake:39 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot find
  "C:/nonsys/workspace/tensorboard_cpp/build/Release/tensorboard_logger.lib":
  No error.

It seems to be a badly phrased error message relating to the install command in cmakelist (https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/19950) but I'm not sure how to resolve it.

Moreover, when trying to compile with the tests via:

> BUILD_DIR=build
> mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR && cmake -DBUILD_TEST=ON -B $BUILD_DIR . && cmake --build $BUILD_DIR -j
> mkdir -p demo && ./$BUILD_DIR/tensorboard_logger_test

I got many errors like this:

tensorboard_logger.lib(projector_config.pb.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class google::protobuf::i
nternal::ExplicitlyConstructed<class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >
 > google::protobuf::internal::fixed_address_empty_string" (?fixed_address_empty_string@internal@protobuf@google@@3V?$
ExplicitlyConstructed@V?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@123@A) [C:\nonsys\workspace\tenso
rboard_cpp\build\tensorboard_logger_test.vcxproj]
C:\nonsys\workspace\tensorboard_cpp\build\Debug\tensorboard_logger_test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved extern
als [C:\nonsys\workspace\tensorboard_cpp\build\tensorboard_logger_test.vcxproj]

May I ask what version of protobuf are we supposed to use?

Many thanks!

[RustingSword]

No specific version of protobuf is required, and I have used many versions since the beginning of this project without such issue.

I have no Windows development environment currently, and I'm not familiar with the development process 😂 It will take me some time to reproduce and fix the problem.

[zzShooter]

I‘ve tried the version of 3.18.0. It works. I use CMake to generate the protobuf-3.18.0 and tensorboard_logger under the development environment of visual studio 14 2015.The note is,you need to compile the .proto files in proto folder by manual. what else,you need indeed to modify the tensorboard_logger and tensorboard_logger_test project's property in which the "runtime library" to "/MTd" and "Optimization" to "Disable".