[Insight-users] Building ITK and VTK on linux

[Bill Lorensen]

Ofri,
You have entered vtk/itk version hell. There is hope, but you may have to make a couple of fixes to your itk1.0. The errors are because the vtk developers have been sweeping through vtk to remove "unnecessary" include files. So, go into vtk2itk.cxx and add
#include "vtkCellArray.h"

There may be other places you will have to do this.

Sorry about the inconvenience,

Bill


At 03:59 PM 1/17/03 -0500, Ofri Sadowsky wrote:
>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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