gz gui does not work on Windows

[azeey]

Environment

• OS Version: Windows
• Source or binary build? source, gz-gui9

Description

• Expected behavior: gz gui to work on windows
• Actual behavior: Fails with

<internal:C:/Users/.../miniconda3/envs/gz-ws/lib/ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:136:in `require': cannot load such file -- C:/Users/kimbe/Development/simulation/gazebo/gz-ws/install/lib/ruby/gz/cmdgui9 (LoadError)
        from <internal:C:/Users/.../miniconda3/envs/gz-ws/lib/ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:136:in `require'
        from C:/Users/kimbe/Development/simulation/gazebo/gz-ws/install/bin//gz:310:in `<main>'

See gazebosim/gazebo_test_cases#1321

[TheCrazyT]

well my manual workaround was downloading:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gazebosim/gz-gui/d110e5b288e8b580b28c0a7256d0e1f0e0c402e2/src/cmd/cmdgui.rb.in
renamed it as "cmdgui9.rb" (placed in "c:\Users[YOUR USERNAME]\anaconda3\envs\gazebo\Library\lib\ruby\gz" folder) and modified the lines:

LIBRARY_NAME = '../../../bin/gz-gui9.dll'
LIBRARY_VERSION = '9.0.0'

not so shure what package should normaly do that. (maybe "libgz-gui9" ?)

Update:
Oh well, but I guess it won't be useful, since gazebosim/gz-sim#168 still seems to block using windows version for anything useful.

[traversaro]

well my manual workaround was downloading:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gazebosim/gz-gui/d110e5b288e8b580b28c0a7256d0e1f0e0c402e2/src/cmd/cmdgui.rb.in
renamed it as "cmdgui9.rb" (placed in "c:\Users[YOUR USERNAME]\anaconda3\envs\gazebo\Library\lib\ruby\gz" folder) and modified the lines:

LIBRARY_NAME = '../../../bin/gz-gui9.dll'
LIBRARY_VERSION = '9.0.0'

not so shure what package should normaly do that. (maybe "libgz-gui9" ?)

Update:
Oh well, but I guess it won't be useful, since gazebosim/gz-sim#168 still seems to block using windows version for anything useful.

What is your use case? gz sim -s and gz sim -g should work fine for the usual simulation workflow.

[TheCrazyT]

well my manual workaround was downloading:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gazebosim/gz-gui/d110e5b288e8b580b28c0a7256d0e1f0e0c402e2/src/cmd/cmdgui.rb.in
renamed it as "cmdgui9.rb" (placed in "c:\Users[YOUR USERNAME]\anaconda3\envs\gazebo\Library\lib\ruby\gz" folder) and modified the lines:

LIBRARY_NAME = '../../../bin/gz-gui9.dll'
LIBRARY_VERSION = '9.0.0'

not so shure what package should normaly do that. (maybe "libgz-gui9" ?)
Update:
Oh well, but I guess it won't be useful, since gazebosim/gz-sim#168 still seems to block using windows version for anything useful.

What is your use case? gz sim -s and gz sim -g should work fine for the usual simulation workflow.

Actually I didn't know you could use both (-g and -s) and thought only the "-s" will work. (I assumed that "-g" is the default)
But you are correct, that way it is working.