RVIZ2 doesn't work on Windows afer fresh install: missing DLL zlib1.dll

[RobertoRoos]

Bug report

Required Info:

• Operating System:
  • Windows 10 / Sandbox Windows 10
• Installation type:
  • binaries
• Version or commit hash:
  • ros2-humble-20230724-windows-release-amd64
• DDS implementation:
  • default
• Client library (if applicable):
  • N/A

Steps to reproduce issue

ros2 run rviz2 rviz2

Expected behavior

RVIZ2 will start.

Actual behavior

RVIZ2 does not start, there is only the message:

[ros2run]: Process exited with failure 3221225595

rviz2.exe just exists with a negative error code.

Additional information

On my fresh install, RVIZ2 cannot run. It exits with a negative exit code without further explanation. More information and the workaround in my stackexchange question: https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/104892/ros2-humble-on-windows-10-rviz2-gives-error-process-exited-with-failure-32212

It turns out it's looking for a DLL named zlib1.dll, and Windows does not resolve it to zlib.dll.

Apologies if this is not the correct issues list. Since this seems like an error in the publication step, I figured it'd fit here best.

[sloretz]

I'm going to transfer this issue to ros2/rviz since that's where zlib_vendor comes from:

rviz/rviz_ogre_vendor/CMakeLists.txt

Lines 32 to 43 in 01df297

	ament_vendor(zlib_vendor
	VCS_URL https://github.com/madler/zlib.git
	VCS_VERSION v1.2.13
	CMAKE_ARGS
	# zlib doesn't use CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX correctly, so we need to override
	-DINSTALL_BIN_DIR=<INSTALL_DIR>/bin
	-DINSTALL_LIB_DIR=<INSTALL_DIR>/lib
	-DINSTALL_INC_DIR=<INSTALL_DIR>/include
	-DINSTALL_MAN_DIR=<INSTALL_DIR>/share/man
	-DINSTALL_PKGCONFIG_DIR=<INSTALL_DIR>/share/pkgconfig
	"-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=${ZLIB_C_FLAGS}"
	)

[sloretz]

@RobertoRoos would you be willing to attach the contents of C:\xmllint\bin? There was some discussion that the issue you're seeing might be a conflict between chocolatey packages and these instructions: https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Installation/Alternatives/Windows-Development-Setup.html#install-miscellaneous-prerequisites

[RobertoRoos]

Sure, here:
xmllint_bin.zip

However, I'm pretty sure I only installed xmllint after I had this issue with RVIZ2. Only after this I also tried to build ROS2 from source (for different reasons), and during these steps I downloaded xmllint.
xmllint is not listed under the "Windows (binary)" instructions. But I see that xmllint/bin indeed contains a zlib1.dll, which I guess would have also solved this issue.

[seanfuture]

Also faced the same issue / error as above. First problem is Windows (binary) installation instructions doesn't make any reference to xmllint or rviz, which I would think would be quite instrumental. After extracting the dependencies into C:\xmllint\bin the cannot find zlib1.dll dialog box went away, but still currently getting the following error when running ros2 run rviz2 rviz2:

[ros2run]: Process exited with failure 3221225781

[dirksavage88]

I am able to replicate the same issues with zlib1.dll not being found. I even tried updating/restoring Visual Studio. Ended up downloading the dll into the system folders but also got the windows error. I am able to get foxglove to work reasonably well in windows for the time being, but this should be fixed.

[zhaolj214]

1. using chocolatey install ros2-humble-desktop.221202-pre.nupkg
2. enter the default installation path, /opt/ros/humble/x64/bin
3. zlib1.dll can be found here

[dirksavage88]

Update: I just installed ros2 jazzy on windows 10 and was able to get rviz2 to come up with no issues