[Solved] UE4Edtior-TobiiEyeX.dll issue

[Jesper Enbom]

Hi I am trying to get eye tracking to work for Unreal Engine. I use the 4.11 edition of UE and hope to try and get it to work on that edition. However, I keep getting into the same issue without finding any concrete or valuable answer to why I keep getting a failure to produce: UE4Editor-TobiiEyeX.dll

This is in the EyeXSamples. I have not yet gotten past step 3 and 4 to put it into the actual engine since I cannot get this simple step to work as of yet.

I even tried to download and do it on UE 4.10 to see if I could get past this error but even there I get this error. The only response I found according to this issue is a very vague answer of:

***
– Extract the EyeX SDK files and copy the lib and include directories to the
Plugins/TobiiEyeX/ThirdParty/EyeX folder of the EyeZ plugin. (Note that
the SDK license differs from the one used for this plugin.)

I missed that step because I thought we’ve to just extract the stuff and did not read that we have to copy the files. My bad.
(And went un-noticed as even my friend had missed the same step.)
***
and
***
To make unreal engine copy the dll over to your build. Add this line to the TobiiEyeX plugins build.cs

RuntimeDependencies.Add(new RuntimeDependency(“$(ProjectDir)/Plugins/TobiiEyeX/ThirdParty/EyeX/lib/x64/Tobii.EyeX.Client.dll”));
***

As you can see their answers are very vague and even if I try to implement them the way they say they done it. I just cannot get it to work. The issue seem to be that the program is unable to read the Tobii.EyeX.Client.dll

But the fail messages regarding this never pops up even if I mess around with the code to have a failure in locating the Tobii.EyeX.Client.dll file it still only complains about being unable to produce: UE4Edtior-TobiiEyeX.dll

So what am I supposed to do? And please give me something that is not vague but a well explained and thorough answer.

Thanks!

[Temaran]

Tjena Jesper!

The “UE4Editor-TobiiEyeX.dll problem” is unfortunately a general problem when it comes to source code plugins in Unreal Engine. As each plugin dll will only work with specific versions of the engine. One solution we could do is offer dlls for all versions out there, but that would most likely become very confusing.

This is why it is recommended to build source plugins yourself. If you have team members who work in blueprint using the binary version of the engine (the one you can download through the Epic launcher) you can still let them use the same generated dll by simply checking it into source control (or distribute it to the team in some other way).

Now for your main problem!
Have you tried getting it to work for a blank template project? The build problem might be related to other code in the solution, so if it’s not working in a blank template, then most likely it’s a problem of the project structure.

To be able to build, much like it says in the readme, you need to:
* First download the plugin code and place it under MyProject/Plugins/TobiiEyeX/ . So directly under TobiiEyeX/ you should have folders like Source and ThirdParty and the TobiiEyeX.uplugin

* Download the C++ sdk package. Then under MyProject/Plugins/TobiiEyeX/ThirdParty/EyeX/ you should end up with an include and a lib folder. You should see header files under the include folder and .lib files and .dll files under the lib folder (both have several subdirectories, so you might have to dig a bit before you can see the actual files).

* Next, you need to reference the plugin module in your main game module. This is to tell the linker where to find symbols for the EyeX stuff. You can always just include the module headers anywhere to make the compiler happy (you should only ever include module headers in the public subfolder though), but the linker isn’t as amicable.
To do this, you need to add an import to your MyProject/Source/MyGame/MyGame.Build.cs file either to the PublicDependencyModuleNames or PrivateDependencyModuleNames depending on where you want the module linkage to be visible in your project. Your build file will already have a set of module imports specified, so just add it to the end of the initializer. Here is an example:
PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] {
“Core”,
“CoreUObject”,
“Engine”,
“InputCore”,
“RHI”,
“TobiiEyeX”
});

* Finally, if you want to be able to produce a build of your project and you don’t want to have to copy the dll to the output folder yourself, that’s where the
RuntimeDependencies.Add(new RuntimeDependency(“$(ProjectDir)/Plugins/TobiiEyeX/ThirdParty/EyeX/lib/x64/Tobii.EyeX.Client.dll”));
becomes important. This also has to be done in the same project build file as the previous step.

After doing this, you should be able to include “IEyeXPlugin.h” in any of your project files and be able to compile and link!

We are also working on packaging our dlls in the plugin itself so that this type of setup will be easier in the future, but there are currently licensing problems that make it hard to do so. Hopefully we can resolve these soon!
Unfortunately, when it comes to the build file setup, this is just how the engine works, so we most likely won’t be able to automate this process.

If you’re still running into problems, please PM me and I’ll try to help you out over skype 🙂

Best regards,
Temaran

[Jesper Enbom]

Hallå Temaran!

You can mark this as Solved! What you said didn’t solve my issue but it might be part of how I got it to finally work. This is a really thorough and well-explained post you did and I hope it can help others that might have that issue!

I found that there was a part of the code that did not have the correct naming convention. Instead of UNavMovementComponent which the problem that I had, it said UNavRenderingComponent. There was nothing in the code with that name and therefore it never could finish building.

If anyone else has this issue you can find UNavRenderingComponent in EyeXMathHelpers.cpp.

Thank you for your post without it I might not have tried to fix the other issue I had and never gotten around to actually solve the problem. Now I just hope it goes smoothly to implement the eye tracking to my project.

Thanks again!
Jesper

[Temaran]

Good to hear~

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