[Insight-users] Re: WrapITK binaries

Tue Aug 15 14:27:40 EDT 2006

Hi Michael,

I have made the changes, but loadLibrary() doesn't seem to work as  
expected.
It says it can't find the lib, but even didn't try to open it (according  
to strace). If someone can give some advice, please do :-)
I'll try to look deeper at that later

Gaetan

Le Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:31:33 +0200, Michael Bell <michael.bell at acm.org> a  
écrit:

> Gaetan,
>
> I understand why you would load from an absolute path based on the jar
> file; it is very convenient for the developer. However, the path has
> to be set to point to the ITK libs already, correct? So loadLibrary
> appears to be appropriate, and I think it will be the solution for my
> purposes.
>
> As always, I appreciate your uncommon responsiveness.
>
> thanks,
> michael
>
>
> On 8/14/06, Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> You're right, java use absolute paths (and tcl do the same BTW). Only
>> python is currently able to be installed anywhere without problem -  
>> that's
>> what I have tested. I'm not sure what is the best way to handle that
>> problem. In python, we are using the magic __file__ variable to find the
>> path where WrapITK is installed. Perhaps there is the same kind of thing
>> for tcl, but I would be surprised to have the same in java.
>> Perhaps can we use standard environment variable to found the libs if  
>> they
>> are not installed in the default places ? In Java for example, instead  
>> of
>> loading the libs in a particular path, we could delegate the job of
>> finding the path of the library to some standard methods, by using
>> Runtime.loadLibrary() instead of Runtime.load(). That way, loadLibrary()
>> will find the lib if they are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH on linux, in the  
>> PATH
>> on windows, in the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on mac os x, ...
>> The user only have to take care to set correctly the PATH. Would it be  
>> ok
>> for you ?
>>
>> Gaetan
>>
>>
>> Le Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:28:16 +0200, Michael Bell <michael.bell at acm.org>  
>> a
>> écrit:
>>
>> > How does CPack handle directory load paths?
>> >
>> > For java wrapping, the dll SwigRuntimeJava is loaded from an absolute
>> > path, the path to the build directory or install path. See
>> > WrapITK/Java/itkbase.java.in.
>> >
>> > If I want to distribute this to other machines without compiling from
>> > scratch, this means that I can't put SwigRuntimeJava in the classpath
>> > and expect it to work. I can't even preload it because it always gets
>> > loaded with InsightToolkit.jar.
>> >
>> > Does itkbase need to be changed for this to work, or does CPack take
>> > care of the problem? (BTW, this causes problems on unix and windows)
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > michael
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/10/06, Gaetan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have added a basic CPack configuration to WrapITK.
>> >> It work just fine with linux, but I would not be surprised to have  
>> some
>> >> problems on other systems (like windows).
>> >> Can you tests on your system(s) ?
>> >>
>> >> The only thing to do is to set INSTALL_WRAP_ITK_COMPATIBILITY to OFF
>> >> with
>> >> cmake, and to build the target "package". On my system:
>> >>
>> >> [glehmann at marvin build]$ make package
>> >> Run CPack packaging tool...
>> >> CPack: Install projects
>> >> CPack: - Run preinstall target for: WrapITK
>> >> CPack: - Install project: WrapITK
>> >> CPack: Compress package
>> >> CPack: Finalize package
>> >> CPack: Package
>> >>  
>> /home/glehmann/src/contrib-itk/WrapITK-unstable/build/WrapITK-0.2.1-Linux.sh
>> >> generated.
>> >>
>> >> So easy :-)
>> >>
>> >> Gaetan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:00:00 +0200, Charl P. Botha  
>> <cpbotha at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On 8/9/06, Gaëtan Lehmann <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>> >> >> We have already talked about that some time ago with Charl.
>> >> >> Charl, I think you have already deployed WrapITK on several host.
>> >> Have
>> >> >> you
>> >> >> used a special method to do that ?
>> >> >
>> >> > For this application I use PyInstaller, but WrapITK was too complex
>> >> > for it.  In the end I just made a script that collects all the
>> >> > relevant ITK/WrapITK DLLs and Python files and puts them in the  
>> right
>> >> > places, on Windows and Linux.  I ship this whole tree with my
>> >> > application.  The script is now integrated in my Frankensteinian
>> >> > build-system and it seems to work.
>> >> >
>> >> > You're welcome to have the bits that do the WrapITK 'packaging', of
>> >> > course.  In principle, one should be able to take the generated  
>> tree
>> >> > and plonk it down on a user's system.  After having set the
>> >> > environment with a brilliant tool such as <plug>
>> >> > cpbotha.net/Software/envedit </plug> you're good to go.
>> >> >
>> >> > See you,
>> >> > Charl
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Gaëtan Lehmann
>> >> Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
>> >> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
>> >> tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
>> >> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gaëtan Lehmann
>> Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
>> INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
>> tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
>> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr
>>
>
>

-- 
Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr