[ITK-users] [ITK-dev] Probelm building project with VTK 6.1 + ITK 4.7

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Jianming,

Could you please also try VTK Git master and report your results?

Thanks,
Matt

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> What you have should work. I just built this example:
> http://itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Examples/Smoothing/MedianImageFilter
>
> no problems. Can you try the same example?
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Jianming <jianming.tom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the previous working fine code when I used VTK 5.6.1+ITK 3.20.1, but
>> I got lots of problem when I wanted to reuse the code while upgrading to the
>> new VTK/ITK version.
>>
>> My environment, Ubuntu 12.04, CMake 2.8.12.2, VTK 6.1, ITK 4.7. ItkVtkGlue
>> is turned ON.
>>
>> The CMakeLists.txt is as the following, I checked the example,
>>
>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
>>
>> PROJECT(BackProjection)
>>
>> FIND_PACKAGE(ITK REQUIRED)
>> INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
>>
>> if (ITKVtkGlue_LOADED)
>>   find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
>>   include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
>> else()
>>   find_package(ItkVtkGlue REQUIRED)
>>   include(${ItkVtkGlue_USE_FILE})
>>   set(Glue ItkVtkGlue)
>> endif()
>> add_executable(ReadPLY MACOSX_BUNDLE ReadPLY.cxx)
>> target_link_libraries(ReadPLY ${Glue} ${VTK_LIBRARIES} ${ITK_LIBRARIES})
>>
>> ###
>>
>> When I build with make, the error is,
>>
>> [100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ReadPLY.dir/ReadPLY.cxx.o
>> Linking CXX executable ReadPLY
>> CMakeFiles/ReadPLY.dir/ReadPLY.cxx.o: In function
>> `vtkSmartPointer<vtkPLYReader>::New()':
>> ReadPLY.cxx:(.text._ZN15vtkSmartPointerI12vtkPLYReaderE3NewEv[_ZN15vtkSmartPointerI12vtkPLYReaderE3NewEv]+0xd):
>> undefined reference to `vtkPLYReader::New()'
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[2]: *** [ReadPLY] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/ReadPLY.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Interestingly, when I fully remove anything about ITK in my CMakeLists.txt,
>> it doesn't show any error. So I suspect it is the ITK's build macro which is
>> breaking my VTK code compiling.
>> The working CMakeLists.txt is like,
>>
>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
>>
>> PROJECT(ReadPLY)
>>
>> find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
>> include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
>>
>> add_executable(ReadPLY MACOSX_BUNDLE ReadPLY.cxx)
>>
>> if(VTK_LIBRARIES)
>>   target_link_libraries(ReadPLY ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
>> else()
>>   target_link_libraries(ReadPLY vtkHybrid vtkWidgets)
>> endif()
>>
>>
>> ####
>>
>> And the ReadPLY.cxx source code is, it is actually a VTK example, doesn't
>> contain any ITK code. But I have the other source code file has ITK code,
>> presenting this example just to show the problem.
>>
>> #include <vtkPolyData.h>
>> #include <vtkPLYReader.h>
>> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
>> #include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
>> #include <vtkActor.h>
>> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
>> #include <vtkRenderer.h>
>> #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
>>
>> int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> {
>>   if(argc != 2)
>>     {
>>     std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << "  Filename(.ply)" << std::endl;
>>     return EXIT_FAILURE;
>>     }
>>
>>   std::string inputFilename = argv[1];
>>
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkPLYReader> reader =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPLYReader>::New();
>>   reader->SetFileName ( inputFilename.c_str() );
>>
>>   // Visualize
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
>>   mapper->SetInputConnection(reader->GetOutputPort());
>>
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
>>   actor->SetMapper(mapper);
>>
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
>>   renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
>>   renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
>>
>>   renderer->AddActor(actor);
>>   renderer->SetBackground(0.1804,0.5451,0.3412); // Sea green
>>
>>   renderWindow->Render();
>>   renderWindowInteractor->Start();
>>
>>   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>> }
>>
>> ####
>>
>>
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