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Just in case my comment is not seen, turns out geometric_shapes looks for files only present in older versions of assimp. The version below worked fine for me: https://sourceforge.net/projects/assimp/files/assimp-2.0/assimp--2.0.858-sdk.zip/download

cmake . && make && make install should do it

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