[Insight-users] Building ITK and VTK on linux

[Ofri Sadowsky]

Hi Bill & All,

I installed the newest cvs version of VTK (I think it's 4.1.something) and rebuilt the whole VTK from
scratch. Then I rebuild Insight 1.0.0 again from scratch, but I keep getting compilation errors. Now
it's in the file:

InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx

and the last error message is

In
   function `vtkUnstructuredGrid* MeshToUnstructuredGrid(floatMesh*)':
/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:271: no
   method `vtkCellArray::New'
/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:272: invalid
   use of undefined type `struct vtkCellArray'
/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/vtk4x-cvs/VTK/IO/vtkDataWriter.h:36: forward   declaration of
`struct vtkCellArray'
/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:292: invalid
   use of undefined type `struct vtkCellArray'
/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/vtk4x-cvs/VTK/IO/vtkDataWriter.h:36: forward   declaration of
`struct vtkCellArray'


Now, I cannot be sure if the problem is because of the VTK version or because of ITK. All I could find
on the VTK web page was:

1. Download VTK 4.0
2. Download VTK 4.x Nightly Release
3. Unsupported Linux Pre-Compiled Binaries (RPMS)

The unofficial rpm has problems with TCL support, so I dropped it. But in general it should be no
different from the nightly release. Bill has ruled out the use of VTK 4.0. What is the next step, then?


Thanks,

Ofri.


"Lorensen, William E (Research)" wrote:

> Orfi,
>
> I suspect that ITK will not build witk VTK4.0. 4.0 is about a year old and, if I recall, itk may be
> taking advantage of features added shortly after the VTK 4.0 release. We are attempting to
> synchronize a vtk 4.2 and itk 1.1 release in the next few weeks. If you can't wait for that, you'll
> have to take cvs checkouts of both systems.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ofri Sadowsky [mailto:ofri@cs.jhu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:22 PM
> To: insight users
> Subject: [Insight-users] Building ITK and VTK on linux
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build the Insight 1.0.0 release on a Linux workstation,
> where VTK 4.0 has already been installed.
>
> The ITK package without VTK examples is built successfully. But when
> I tryo to add the VTK examples - by setting
>
> BUILD_EXAMPLES                   ON
> USE_VTK                          ON
>
> in ccmake, the build fails on the file
>
> InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Examples/vtkITK/Common/vtkITKMutualInformationTransform.cxx
>
> with many errors. The last of which is
> "class vtkITKMutualInformationTransform' has no member named
> `Superclass'
> /usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Examples/vtkITK/Common/vtkITKMutualInf
> ormationTransform.cxx:90:
> parse
>    error before `::' token"
>
> I use gmake and g++/gcc for the compilation. The operating system is
> "Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)". The error occurs only if both the
> above flags are ON. cmake and ccmake do not report any problems.
>
> Please help me find the problems, as I would like to evaluate the use of
> VTK and ITK together.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ofri.
>
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