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[Stephane Tayeb <>]

Rob wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I just downloaded and compiled a fresh copy of CGAL-3.5 and am running
> into the following issue.  When I run any demo which is supposed to load
> a polyhedron_3, CGAL complains that it cannot load the file.  For
> example, if I try to open a mesh (any .off file from the data directory
> that comes with the demos) in the Polyhedron demo, I get a message box
> which says "File <file here> has not a known file format".  If I click
> ok, the message box goes away, but the polyhedron is not created.  Any
> ideas what might be causing this?  CGAL and the demos compile without error.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
Hi,

The polyhedron demo uses several Qt4 plugins (one of them is used to 
read off files, liboff_plugin.so). Could you confirm that those plugins 
are loaded at Polyhedron demo start please ?

If I remember well, cmake could put the compiled plugins (dynamic 
libraries) either in the Polyhedron demo directory or in CGAL-3.5/lib 
directory.

Best,
--
Stephane Tayeb
Software engineer - INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Geometrica Project-Team