[ITK] [ITK-dev] Static link "error LNK2005: png_get_uint_31 already defined in png.lib", missing #define in itk_png_mangle.h?

Francois Budin francois.budin at kitware.com
Tue Apr 11 11:53:25 EDT 2017


Thanks Niels. Let us know if you are running into any problem during that
process.

Francois

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Niels Dekker <niels-xtk at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Thank you for your supportive replies, Matt and Francois. My colleague
> Floris Berendsen and I will try to submit a patch for this issue later this
> week.
>
> Kind regards, Niels
>
> Francois Budin wrote op 2017-04-11 15:35:
>
>> Hello Niels,
>>
>> Thank you for reporting this issue. I looked into itk_png_mangle.h and
>> indeed it looks like the function 'png_get_uint_31' should be renamed
>> and is not.
>> Using this command [1], updated to your ITK version, you should be
>> able to see the the functions that are missing and need to be added to
>> itk_png_mangle.h .
>> It would be great if you commit submit a patch to ITK to correct this
>> issue.
>> You can find step by step instructions about how to contribute here
>> [2]. Feel free to reach out if you have any problem during this
>> process.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your help,
>> Francois
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/
>> master/Modules/ThirdParty/PNG/src/itkpng/itk_png_mangle.h#L13-L15
>> [2] https://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git/Develop
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Niels Dekker wrote:
>>
>> When trying build our project, which links statically to both ITK
>>> and the Niftyreg library, my colleague Floris Berendsen and I
>>> encountered the following link error:
>>>
>>> itkpng-4.10.lib(pngrutil.obj) : error LNK2005: png_get_uint_31
>>>>
>>> already defined in png.lib(pngrutil.obj)
>>> [...\SuperElastix-build\Testing\Unit\selxAnyFileIOTest.vcxproj]
>>>
>>>> ...\SuperElastix-build\bin\Debug\selxAnyFileIOTest.exe : fatal
>>>>
>>> error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found
>>> [...\SuperElastix-build\Testing\Unit\selxAnyFileIOTest.vcxproj]
>>>
>>> It appears that ITK and Niftyreg link to different versions of
>>> libpng. Fortunately, ITK has done name mangling for most of the
>>> libpng API functions, to avoid such linking errors, as we can see at
>>> Modules/ThirdParty/PNG/src/itkpng/itk_png_mangle.h  Now it appears
>>> that the function "png_get_uint_31" is also exported by libpng, but
>>> that function is not mangled by ITK! We could locally fix our link
>>> error by adding an extra #define to "itk_png_mangle.h":
>>>
>>> #define png_get_uint_31 itk_png_get_uint_31
>>>
>>> Do you guys agree that that would be an appropriate fix? Could such
>>> a fix be added to the ITK code base?
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Niels
>>>
>>> PS Our project, SuperElastix, can be found at
>>> https://github.com/SuperElastix/SuperElastix  (We tried to build
>>> the SuperBuild from the development branch.) The Nifty Reg library
>>> is from https://cmiclab.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mmodat/niftyreg
>>>
>>
> --
> Niels Dekker
> Scientific programmer
> LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
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