Error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: __cdecl tesseract::TessBaseAPI::TessBaseAPI(void)"

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

Environment:

• Python => 3.9
• Node => 11.15 (Also tried using 14)
• Node-Gyp => 8.2 (Globally installed) - But in error I can see => node-gyp -v v3.8.0
• Npm => 6.7

Unable to install this package getting the following errors during build:

• Error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: __cdecl tesseract::TessBaseAPI::TessBaseAPI(void)"
• fatal error LNK1120: 7 unresolved externals [C:\Users\MyUserName\Documents\project\node_modules\node-native-ocr\build\node-native-ocr.vcxproj]

See attached screenshots for reference

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

Same error with python v2.7

[jschlight]

@ahmedmukhtar1133 Would it be possible to get the full build log, including the build command you are using to trigger the build, as plain text either pasted into a comment here or as a gist?

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

@jschlight I just ran the npm install command to install the dependencies.
Here is the complete npm debug log file attached.
File is huge, you might want to search through file node-native-ocr
2021-10-05T22_12_10_891Z-debug.log
.

[jschlight]

@ahmedmukhtar1133 Thank you. I wasn't clear in my request. You sent what I asked for. I'm hoping to get a textual version of the console output in the screenshots you posted. Can you please verify the following software versions you are running:

• Microsoft Windows
• Visual Studio
• CMake

I can confirm the code builds with Visual Studio Build Tools 2019. But it may not build with other versions.

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

• Windows: 10
• Visual Studio: 2017
• Cmake: 3.21

As you suggested it might work with VS 2019 build tools, so I'll check again with vs 2019. Incase I get any errors then I'll provide you textual version of the console errors.

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

I've tried with VS 2019 build tools but it's still not working.

[ahmedmukhtar1133]

Finally, after trying different combinations have fixed this issue.

• Windows: 10
• Visual Studio (Build tools, C++ Packages, and Windows SDK): VS Build Tools 2019
• Cmake: 3.21
• Node: 14.16
• Python: 2.7

Might help someone.