[ITK-users] [Paraview] compile itk (VTKGlue ON) with vtk from paraview

[Matt McCormick]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Dr. Roman Grothausmann
<grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On 26/01/15 17:54, Matt McCormick wrote:
>> I do not think the Midas Journal will be able to build your plugin.
>
> OK, so I added a VTK test program. Is there a way to test if the automatic
> testing environment would be able to build and run my VTK test program
> BEFORE submitting the contribution to Midas?
> (My last submission never got tested by the system so far, i.e. there is no
> colde review reported:
> http://www.vtkjournal.org/browse/publication/949)

Unfortunately, the submission build system is currently opaque and
limited.  We have many thoughts on how to improve the journal
infrastructure but lack the funding to implement it :-(.


>> I would recommend creating build instructions to build against a
>> ParaView build tree.  I have just verified that ITK builds with the
>> ITKVtkGlue module ON when pointing VTK_DIR to the <ParaView-build>/VTK
>> directory.
>
> Did You use BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON for both ITK and ParaView? ITK also
> compiles fine without any errors for me if I use BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF,
> however the problems then arise when compiling the plugin.
> If You like, You can test the compilation of the plugin with the code from
> the git repository:
> https://github.com/romangrothausmann/FacetAnalyser

Looks like a great project!

I was using BUILD_SHARED_LIBS for both.  What issue were you seeing?

Again, I think the best approach is to build VTK separately, then
build both ParaView and ITK against that version.

HTH,
Matt



>
> On 26/01/15 17:54, Matt McCormick wrote:
>>
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> Thanks for the update. Great to hear about the Midas Journal article!
>>
>> I do not think the Midas Journal will be able to build your plugin.
>>
>> I would recommend creating build instructions to build against a
>> ParaView build tree.  I have just verified that ITK builds with the
>> ITKVtkGlue module ON when pointing VTK_DIR to the <ParaView-build>/VTK
>> directory.
>>
>> I don't see the install tree VTKTargets.cmake file in my ParaView
>> build, either. In the long term, the ParaView CMake configuration
>> should be corrected.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Dr. Roman Grothausmann
>> <grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank You very much for Your reply.
>>> I can only find one VTKTargets.cmake in
>>> /opt/compilation/paraview-git_build/VTK/
>>> It seems though that it is lacking the relevant entries for the libraries
>>> that troubled me, e.g. vtkPVPythonCatalyst and
>>> vtkUtilitiesPythonInitializer.
>>>
>>> I'm about to publish the ITK-VTK PV plugin in the Midas Journal, what
>>> installation instructions should I give there?
>>> Will the testing environment be able to compile this plugin and its tests
>>> or
>>> should I disable automatic testing for this contribution?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for looking into this.
>>> Roman
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/01/15 18:15, Matt McCormick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Roman,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for looking into the issue and reporting it to the mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> Paraview should be installing VTKTargets.cmake, which tells the build
>>>> system where to find the libraries.  Note that there might be two
>>>> VTKTargets.cmake files that are generated -- one for the build tree
>>>> and one for the install tree.
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Dr. Roman Grothausmann
>>>> <grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22/01/15 11:21, Dr. Roman Grothausmann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adding the abs. file locations to the build command does not help nor
>>>>>> does
>>>>>> -L/opt/paraview-4.3.1_git/lib/paraview-4.3/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I figured that the vtk dynamic libraries of PV have the ending
>>>>> *-pv4.3.so
>>>>> which seems to be the reason why the linker does not find them. If I
>>>>> create
>>>>> symbolic links to these files without the extension:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd /opt/compilation/paraview-git_build/lib/
>>>>> for i in *-pv*.so; do ln -s $i ${i%-pv*}.so; done
>>>>>
>>>>> and adding -L/opt/compilation/paraview-git_build/lib/ to
>>>>> CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
>>>>> the compilation of ITK succeeds.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder, is that the way it's meant to be done?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I missing in my configuration of PV and ITK?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When and where should I specify:
>>>>>> CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS                  -fPIC
>>>>>> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS                ON/OFF
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this the right VTK_DIR specification for ITK:
>>>>>> /opt/compilation/ParaView-v4.3.1/build/VTK
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> /opt/paraview-4.3.1_git/lib/cmake/paraview-4.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks for any help or hints.
>>>>>> Roman
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>
> --
> Dr. Roman Grothausmann
>
> Tomographie und Digitale Bildverarbeitung
> Tomography and Digital Image Analysis
>
> Institut für Funktionelle und Angewandte Anatomie, OE 4120
> Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
> Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
> D-30625 Hannover
>
> Tel. +49 511 532-9574