FBX Extensions SDK Sample Crashes Maya 2014 On Start

[Anonymous]

I have installed Maya With Service Pack 4.

The version of FBX it comes with is 2014.1.

I have installed the 2014.1 FBX SDK and the 2014.1 FBX Extensions SDK.

I built the extensions  sdk sample "Maya2014_CustomSurface", with Visual Studio Express 2013. I Put the resulting dll (release) into Maya\bin\plug-ins\FBX.

Maya will start up and then crash. The logs indicate it has to do with the Maya2014_CustomSurface dll (Memory access violations etc).

Maya does not crash if the Maya2014_CustomSurface dll is removed.

Does anyone know what could be wrong and how to fix this ?

Maybe I need Visual Studio paid version ?

[Anonymous]

Attaching a crash log. Seems to crash on RegisterPlugin. I have tried other samples and cannot get them to work.

Maya crashes on start for each one. I tried switching to Visual Studio Express 2012, but that didn't fix the problem.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

The Problem :

The FBX Extensions SDK 2014.1 lib files were for Visual Studio 2010, but I had been using Visual Studio Express 2012, 2013.

Although the samples compiled and were built without error, the sample dll's caused Maya 2014 to crash at start up.

The Fix:

To get the sample dll's to work, I had to install Visual Studio Express 2010 and build the samples with that.

Then, the sample dll's worked with Maya 2014 no problem.

*Note:

You must have the Microsoft Platform SDK installed FIRST before installing Visual Studio Express 2010.

Otherwise you have to uninstall Visual Studio Express 2010 and every instance of the Visual Studio 2010 redistributable, then install the Platform Sdk, then install Visual Studio Express 2010.