<div dir="ltr">Seems fishy to me, but in any case, I downloaded your vtkbool package and was able to build & use it with the following modifications to the CMakeLists.txt:<div><br></div><div>1) added vtkWrappingPythonCore to the COMPONENTS:</div><div><br></div><div>    find_package(VTK REQUIRED COMPONENTS</div><div>        vtkFiltersSources vtkIOLegacy vtkFiltersExtraction vtkFiltersGeometry vtkFiltersModeling</div><div>        vtkRenderingFreeType vtkWrappingPythonCore NO_MODULE)</div><div><br></div><div>2) added vtkWrappingPythonCore and vtkCommonExecutionModelPythonD to target_link_libraries:</div><div><br></div><div>    target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}PythonD ${PROJECT_NAME}</div><div>        vtkWrappingPythonCore vtkCommonExecutionModelPythonD)<br></div><div><br></div><div>3) fixed the prefix and suffix for the Python module:</div><div><br></div><div>    set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME}Python PROPERTIES PREFIX "")<br></div><div>    if(WIN32)</div><div>        set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME}Python PROPERTIES SUFFIX ".pyd")</div><div>    endif()</div><div><br></div><div>After that, I built the project and loaded the module into Python:</div><div><br></div><div><div>vtkpython </div><div>vtk version 7.1.0</div><div>Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) </div><div>[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin</div><div>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.</div><div>>>> from vtkboolPython import vtkPolyDataBooleanFilter</div><div>>>> pdbf = vtkPolyDataBooleanFilter()</div><div>>>> </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In summary, I'm not sure why you were still seeing the missing symbols after you linked to the library.</div><div><br></div><div> - David</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Ronald Römer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rroemer@gmail.com" target="_blank">rroemer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div class="m_6234364206471877386moz-cite-prefix">Yes, that's right. <br><div><div class="h5">
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      On 10.10.2017 05:45, David Gobbi wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I'm just trying to make sure that we're
        communicating the correct information back and forth here...
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        </div>
        <div>Are you saying that after adding <span style="font-size:12.8px">vtkWrappingPythonCore to
            target_link_libraries(), you were able to successfully
            compile your project, but when trying to import the module
            you saw unresolved symbol errors for PyVTKClass_New and
            other "PyVTK_*" methods?</span></div>
        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
          </span></div>
        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The vtkWrappingPythonCore
            library existed in VTK 5, as well, but it was
            called vtkPythonCore back then.</span></div>
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          </span></div>
        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - David</span></div>
        <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
          </span></div>
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      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Ronald
          Römer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rroemer@gmail.com" target="_blank">rroemer@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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              <div class="m_6234364206471877386m_-1998149975941547339moz-cite-prefix">There
                are still undefined symbols:<br>
                <br>
                00000000002074e0 d DW.ref.__gxx_personality_v0<span><br>
                  U PyBool_FromLong<br>
                  U PyDict_SetItemString<br>
                  U PyErr_Occurred<br>
                  U PyInt_FromLong<br>
                  U PyModule_GetDict<br>
                  U PyString_FromString<br>
                </span> 00000000000040f9 T PyVTKAddFile_vtkPolyDataBoolea<wbr>nFilter<span><br>
                  U PyVTKClass_New<br>
                  U PyVTKClass_Type<br>
                  U PyVTKClass_vtkPolyDataAlgorith<wbr>mNew<br>
                </span> 0000000000004087 T PyVTKClass_vtkPolyDataBooleanF<wbr>ilterNew<br>
                U PyVTKObject_GetObject<br>
                U PyVTKObject_SetFlag<br>
                U PyVTKObject_Type<br>
                U Py_FatalError<br>
                U Py_InitModule4_64<br>
                <br>
                I think it is a problem with the modularized VTK, that
                is present since version 6.<br>
                <br>
                <a href="http://libvtkWrappingPython27Core-6.3.so" target="_blank">libvtkWrappingPython27Core-6.3<wbr>.so</a>
                exists in the lib directory.
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                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    On 10.10.2017 05:18, David Gobbi wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Did it fail because it didn't find
                      the library?  Or did it fail because it still had
                      unresolved symbols?</div>
                    <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at
                        9:14 PM, Ronald Römer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rroemer@gmail.com" target="_blank">rroemer@gmail.com</a>></span>
                        wrote:<br>
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                          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
                            <div class="m_6234364206471877386m_-1998149975941547339m_-3134541148717504743moz-cite-prefix">I
                              already tried this without any success. I
                              have no idea what is wrong with it. You
                              can try to modify my code to find out the
                              correct necessary changes.<br>
                              <br>
                              Best regards<span class="m_6234364206471877386m_-1998149975941547339HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                                  Ronald</font></span>
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                                  <br>
                                  <br>
                                  On 10.10.2017 04:59, David Gobbi
                                  wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr">
                                    <div>Hi Ronald,</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Use the following:</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>target_link_libraries(${PROJEC<wbr>T_NAME}PythonD
                                      ${PROJECT_NAME}
                                      vtkWrappingPythonCore)</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>You might also have to add
                                      vtkWrappingPythonCore to the
                                      components for find_package(VTK).</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div> - David</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon,
                                        Oct 9, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Ronald
                                        Römer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rroemer@gmail.com" target="_blank">rroemer@gmail.com</a>></span>
                                        wrote:<br>
                                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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                                                        <div>Hello,<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                        </div>
                                                        I'm trying to
                                                        fix a problem
                                                        with the python
                                                        wrapper of my
                                                        library. In my
                                                        CMakeLists.txt
                                                        there are the
                                                        following lines:<br>
                                                      </div>
                                                      <div><br>
                                                      </div>
                                                      <div>find_package(VTK
                                                        REQUIRED
                                                        COMPONENTS
                                                        vtkFiltersSources
                                                        vtkIOLegacy
                                                        vtkFiltersExtraction
vtkFiltersGeometry vtkFiltersModeling vtkRenderingFreeType NO_MODULE)<br>
                                                        <br>
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})<br>
                                                      </div>
                                                      <div><br>
if(VTK_WRAP_PYTHON)<br>
                                                           
                                                        find_package(PythonLibs
                                                        2.7 REQUIRED)<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                           
                                                        if(PYTHONLIBS_FOUND)<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                               
                                                        include_directories(${PYTHON_I<wbr>NCLUDE_DIRS}
${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                               
                                                        include(vtkWrapPython)<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                               
                                                        vtk_wrap_python3(${PROJECT_NAM<wbr>E}Python
${PROJECT_NAME}Python_srcs vtkPolyDataBooleanFilter.cxx)<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                               
                                                        add_library(${PROJECT_NAME}Pyt<wbr>honD
${${PROJECT_NAME}Python_srcs})<br>
                                                               
                                                        target_link_libraries(${PROJEC<wbr>T_NAME}PythonD
                                                        ${PROJECT_NAME})<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                               
                                                        add_library(${PROJECT_NAME}Pyt<wbr>hon
                                                        MODULE
                                                        ${PROJECT_NAME}PythonInit.cxx)<br>
                                                               
                                                        target_link_libraries(${PROJEC<wbr>T_NAME}Python
${PROJECT_NAME}PythonD)<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                            endif()<br>
                                                        endif()<br>
                                                        <br>
                                                      </div>
                                                      When I try to
                                                      import the module
                                                      into a python
                                                      script, I get an
                                                      import error about
                                                      undefined symbols
                                                      like
                                                      PyVTKObject_Type.
                                                      After a little
                                                      research with nm I
                                                      found out that the
                                                      shared object is
                                                      not linked to
                                                      libvtkWrappingPython27Core.
                                                      Here are the first
                                                      lines of it:<br>
                                                      <br>
                                                    </div>
                                                    U PyBool_FromLong<br>
                                                    U
                                                    PyDict_SetItemString<br>
                                                    U PyErr_Occurred<br>
                                                    U PyInt_FromLong<br>
                                                    U PyModule_GetDict<br>
                                                    U
                                                    PyString_FromString<br>
                                                    0000000000003020 T
                                                    PyVTKAddFile_vtkPolyDataBoolea<wbr>nFilter<br>
                                                    U PyVTKClass_New<br>
                                                    U PyVTKClass_Type<br>
                                                    U
                                                    PyVTKClass_vtkPolyDataAlgorith<wbr>mNew<br>
                                                    <br>
                                                  </div>
                                                  How to fix this? There
                                                  is no documentation
                                                  about the the python
                                                  wrapper, except <a href="https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Python_Wrapping_FAQ" target="_blank">https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/P<wbr>ython_Wrapping_FAQ</a>.<br>
                                                  <br>
                                                </div>
                                                I'm actually using VTK
                                                6.3 and my library can
                                                be found on <a href="https://github.com/zippy84/vtkbool" target="_blank">https://github.com/zippy84/vtk<wbr>bool</a>.<br>
                                                <br>
                                              </div>
                                              Best regards</div>
                                            <span class="m_6234364206471877386m_-1998149975941547339m_-3134541148717504743gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
                                                <div>Ronald<br>
                                                </div>
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                                    </div>
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                    </div>
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                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                </div>
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    <p><br>
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