Error building ITK 5.4 with CMake on MSVC 19.44: unresolved external symbol __std_find_first_of_trivial_pos_1

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Hi ITK team,

I built ITK 5.4 using CMake and Visual Studio 2022. Everything compiles and links fine for most headers, but when I include <itkImageFileReader.h> in my project, I get the following linker error with file itksys-5.4.lib(SystemTools.obj):

unresolved external symbol __std_find_first_of_trivial_pos_1

Here are my build settings:

  • ITK built as DLL / Static library (tried both)

  • CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD = 17

  • MSVC runtime = MD

  • Project uses same C++ standard and runtime as ITK

  • All required ITK libraries linked

Other headers, e.g., <itkImage.h> work fine.

Do you have any suggestions why this symbol is missing, or how to correctly build ITK to use ImageFileReader without linker errors?

Thanks in advance!

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Are you pointing your project to ITK’s build directory, or an install directory? Using build directory is much more tested. I have a very similar setup, and I don’t remember encountering that error.

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This error sounds like a build gone wrong. Can you try clean and rebuild ITK? Does the problem still persist?

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Thanks, sir! I’ll try again — really appreciate your help.

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Dear Sir,

I ran cmake --build . --target install using the install folder because I wanted to get the headers quickly.

If I used the build folder, I would need to include many header files directly from the ITK source, which is quite large. Installing seemed easier to set up the include directories.

However, after doing this, I encountered the linker error I mentioned before.

I also noticed that some ITK documentation for building external projects recommends using CMake to create the project, but I wanted to use Visual Studio 2022 directly instead. I am not sure which folder(s) should be added to the Additional Include Directories.
I apologize if my knowledge is still limited!

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If I build my project using CMake, it works correctly.
CMake can find ITK, link all the required modules, and the program runs without errors.

However, when I try to use Visual Studio 2022 directly, I manually add:

  • the install/include folder to Additional Include Directories

  • the install/lib folder to Additional Library Directories

  • the ITK .lib files to Input → Additional Dependencies

When I build my project this way, Visual Studio gives me the linker error I mentioned earlier.

These are all the steps I performed. I think the issue happens because I am not using CMake to build my project.

Thank you for your help, sir.

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Take a look at this:

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Thank you, sir!