Hello,

I was following along the HDK documentation and tried to compile one of the examples, but it errors out saying it's a perrmission issue.

The command to compile was,

hcustom SOP_Star.C

I looked at the SOP_Star.C file and read-only is unchecked for the file.

Any one have any ideas as to how the issue may be resolved?

Here's the readout from doing the above command:



Help is appreciated, thanks.

My guess is that $HFS is set to read only for your user. If you copy the examples somewhere else you can write to then I'd expect it to work

Thanks graham.

Yeah, moving it to another folder does work.

The whole thing is a bit ‘odd’ to me though.

I am running my windows as admistrative user.

But also in hconsole I can't do something like

cd $HFS

because it says the ‘the system cannot find the path specified’

Although I can ‘cd’ manually like

cd CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini X.X.X.

or any variation of that - deeper into other folders.

So I tried changing the read attribute of the main folder - Side Effects Software - to uncheck read only attribute for all folders and files in it.

but ‘cd $HFS’ still gives the same message saying it can't find it.

Windows doesn't know $HFS, it's probably %HFS% or something similar (sorry long time no Windows around).

Thanks for pointing that out symek.

Yes as you have it works.

Going back over some of the HDK documentation I see I must have overlooked a section that was pertaining to linux usage, thinking it applied to windows.

I do see in the windows sections it uses %HFS%.

By default, the toolkit diretory is not writable in Windows. You can right-click the directory in Windows Explorer, and grant access to your user on the Security tab.

Also - as mentioned above - On Windows use %HFS% instead of $HFS