Failing to run Genesis on Windows 11 & WSL

[vstavros02]

Every time I try to run a scene from the 'Hello, Genesis' tutorial, it fails to load. I ensured that I have the prerequisites installed (such as PyTorch ans Conda) however I receive the same error . I've tried on my regular Windows 11 and WSL, having the same error. Does anyone know how to solve this? Is there something I'm missing, a dependency that needs to be installed? I've snured my GPU driver is correct and that everything is up to date and compatible! Any advice would help, thanks so much!

WSL

(genesis_project) vickistavros@Timmy:~/genesis_code$ python
Python 3.11.11 (main, Dec 11 2024, 16:28:39) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import genesis as gs
kend=gs.cpu)

scene = gs.Scene(show_viewer=True)
plane = scene.add_entity(gs.morphs.Plane())
franka = scene.add_entity(
    gs.morphs.MJCF(file='xml/franka_emika_panda/panda.xml'),
)

scene.build()

for i in range(1000):
    scene.step()
>>> gs.init(backend=gs.cpu)
[Genesis] [17:31:47] [INFO] ╭───────────────────────────────────────╮
[Genesis] [17:31:47] [INFO] │┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈ Genesis ┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈│
[Genesis] [17:31:47] [INFO] ╰───────────────────────────────────────╯
[Genesis] [17:31:47] [INFO] Running on [12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900HK] with backend gs.cpu. Device memory: 7.76 GB.
[Genesis] [17:31:47] [INFO] 🚀 Genesis initialized. 🔖 version: 0.2.0, 🌱 seed: None, 📏 precision: '32', 🐛 debug: False, 🎨 theme: 'dark'.
>>>
>>> scene = gs.Scene(show_viewer=True)
[Genesis] [17:31:48] [INFO] Scene <7d95c05> created.
>>> plane = scene.add_entity(gs.morphs.Plane())
[Genesis] [17:31:48] [INFO] Adding <gs.RigidEntity>. idx: 0, uid: <1e89bb6>, morph: <gs.morphs.Plane>, material: <gs.materials.Rigid>.
>>> franka = scene.add_entity(
...     gs.morphs.MJCF(file='xml/franka_emika_panda/panda.xml'),
... )
[Genesis] [17:31:48] [INFO] Adding <gs.RigidEntity>. idx: 1, uid: <6768ea0>, morph: <gs.morphs.MJCF(file='/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/genesis/assets/xml/franka_emika_panda/panda.xml')>, material: <gs.materials.Rigid>.
>>>
>>> scene.build()
[Genesis] [17:31:48] [INFO] Building scene <7d95c05>...
[Genesis] [17:31:57] [INFO] Compiling simulation kernels...
[Genesis] [17:32:28] [INFO] Building visualizer...
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Exception in thread Thread-2 (_init_and_start_app):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 1045, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 982, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/genesis/ext/pyrender/viewer.py", line 1126, in _init_and_start_app
    super(Viewer, self).__init__(
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyglet/window/xlib/__init__.py", line 168, in __init__
    super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyglet/window/__init__.py", line 527, in __init__
    context = config.create_context(gl.current_context)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyglet/gl/xlib.py", line 114, in create_context
    return XlibContext(self, share)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/vickistavros/miniconda3/envs/genesis_project/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyglet/gl/xlib.py", line 149, in __init__
    raise gl.ContextException(msg)
pyglet.gl.ContextException: Could not create GL context"

**Windows 11**
:"Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import genesis as gs
>>> gs.init(backend=gs.gpu)  # or gs.cuda if CUDA is available
[Genesis] [15:03:55] [INFO] ╭───────────────────────────────────────╮
[Genesis] [15:03:55] [INFO] │┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈ Genesis ┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈┉┈│
[Genesis] [15:03:55] [INFO] ╰───────────────────────────────────────╯
[Genesis] [15:03:56] [INFO] Running on [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU] with backend gs.cuda. Device memory: 4.00 GB.
[Genesis] [15:03:56] [INFO] 🚀 Genesis initialized. 🔖 version: 0.2.0, 🌱 seed: None, 📏 precision: '32', 🐛 debug: False, 🎨 theme: 'dark'.
>>> scene = gs.Scene(show_viewer=True)
[Genesis] [15:04:06] [INFO] Scene <8dc41ec> created.
>>> plane = scene.add_entity(gs.morphs.Plane())
[Genesis] [15:04:06] [INFO] Adding <gs.RigidEntity>. idx: 0, uid: <73e8b45>, morph: <gs.morphs.Plane>, material: <gs.materials.Rigid>.
>>> scene.build()
[Genesis] [15:04:06] [INFO] Building scene <8dc41ec>...
[Genesis] [15:04:30] [INFO] Compiling simulation kernels...
[Genesis] [15:05:44] [INFO] Building visualizer...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\utils\misc.py", line 38, in wrapper
    return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\engine\scene.py", line 556, in build
    self._visualizer.build()
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\vis\visualizer.py", line 101, in build
    self._context.build(self._scene)
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\vis\rasterizer_context.py", line 70, in build
    self.jit = JITRenderer(self._scene, [], [])
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\ext\pyrender\jit_render.py", line 201, in __init__
    self.gen_func_ptr()
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\ext\pyrender\jit_render.py", line 354, in gen_func_ptr
    self.gl = GLWrapper()
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\ext\pyrender\numba_gl_wrapper.py", line 24, in __init__
    load_func("glGetUniformLocation", GLint, GLuint, GLvoidp)
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\genesis\ext\pyrender\numba_gl_wrapper.py", line 52, in load_func
    func_ptr = GL.platform.ctypesloader.buildFunction(
  File "C:\Users\vicki\anaconda3\envs\genesis_env\lib\site-packages\OpenGL\platform\ctypesloader.py", line 96, in buildFunction
    return functionType( (name, dll), )
AttributeError: function 'glGetUniformLocation' not found
>>> for i in range(100):
...     scene.step()

[GAYhen]

I also encountered a similar error. The error was "Unable to initialize an OpenGL 3+context", and I was there.

[duburcqa]

This issue has been fixed on the main branch of Genesis. Even if this version is not officially release for now, you can install it via pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis.git