I am trying to build two different PyTorch cpp/cuda extensions on Windows. One is Facebook provided “SparseConvNet” and another named “pointgroup_ops” by a research group somewhere else. Seems like they both have generally been built and tested on Linux machines. I need to build them on Windows. After fixing a few compilation issues, I have reached a stage where both of them have a single mysterious looking link error.
For the first library, the error is:
sparseconvnet_cuda.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: long * __cdecl at::Tensor::data_ptr<long>(void)const " (??$data_ptr@J@Tensor@at@@QEBAPEAJXZ)
build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\sparseconvnet\SCN.cp37-win_amd64.pyd : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

For the second library, the error is:
pointgroup_ops.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: long * __cdecl at::Tensor::data_ptr<long>(void)const " (??$data_ptr@J@Tensor@at@@QEBAPEAJXZ)
build\lib.win-amd64-3.7\PG_OP.cp37-win_amd64.pyd : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

They both look very similar. Any insights about the cause/fix? Of course, the code is same as the one that builds on Linux; so, it can’t be the case where something is genuinely not defined. ‘QEBAPEAJXZ’ not a string that occurs in code.
I did an online search for the strange ‘QEBAPEAJXZ’ string and seems like people have encountered this in the context of building other libraries as well.
Here are two for example: https://github.com/sshaoshuai/PointRCNN/issues/75 3
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/142676847 3
But, I did not find a solution that has worked. Any help in resolving this would be appreciated by me, and also probably by other people who have encountered this as well.
Thanks.