[Insight-developers] Latest WrapITK merged in ITK

Wed Jan 26 16:26:27 EST 2011

We could make a CMakeExternal package that builds swig as part of ITK if
necessary.  Swig is actually very small, and compared to the size, and
compile time of wrapped ITK it is going to be negligible.

Hans

On 1/26/11 1:52 PM, "Gaëtan Lehmann" <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:

>
>Le 26 janv. 11 à 15:13, Bradley Lowekamp a écrit :
>
>> Gaetan,
>>
>
>Hi Brad,
>
>> Over night on my mac laptop I was able to build Wrap ITK with swig
>> 1.3.31, OK. It was submitted as an experiential under malawi.local.
>> There is only one failing test due to a time out, but a whole bunch
>> of warning. I am going to configure a new nightly build on a mac
>> with this system default version of swig. I feel that this version
>> of swig needs to be supported given in comes with the macs, unless
>> there is a very compelling benefit to requiring a newer version.
>
>There is a problem with swig 1.3.31 and python 2.5 which leads to this
>warning.
>Unfortunately that's the versions apple have chosen to distribute 
>not sure what we can do about that.
>The bug has been fixed in swig 1.3.33
>
>
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1798551&group_id=
>1645&atid=101645
>
>Gaëtan
>
>>
>> The build with swig 1.3.29 did not submit as expected.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Le 25 janv. 11 à 22:31, Bradley Lowekamp a écrit :
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I'm not sure how but I managed to miss your mail.
>>>>
>>>> No worries.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We are recommending the version 1.3.38 or newer, but haven't
>>>>> forced a minimum version as the required version depends on many
>>>>> things ‹ for example, the python version used, the integration of
>>>>> the doxygen documentation in the python one, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Hrmm.. This explains why I have not been able to build WrapITK
>>>> today. Well I have 1.3.31 which is the version on my mac, and on
>>>> the cluster, I get 1.3.29. Looking for release date of these I find
>>>>
>>>> 1.3.38 1/31/2009
>>>> 1.3.31 11/20/2006
>>>> 1.3.29 3/21/2006
>>>>
>>>> I am lazy, how needed are the newer feature of swig? I don't like
>>>> to have to build, and keep around more non-system tools then
>>>> really needed. Too easy to get too many different versions of
>>>> things laying around. Any ways it could be more compatible with
>>>> older versions of swig?
>>>
>>> We can probably restrict the flag used to fit the swig version, but
>>> there might still be some bugs in older swig versions.
>>>
>>> Can you submit an experimental build, so I can try to figure out
>>> what needs to be done?
>>>
>>> Gaëtan
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At some point, we may have to force a minimum version though, to
>>>>> make the debugging possible from the report of our users.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> About the performance, swig provides a -O options which makes the
>>>>> generated code a lot faster. From the swig doc and for python:
>>>>>
>>>>>     -O              - Enable the following optimization options:
>>>>>                        -modern -fastdispatch -nosafecstrings -
>>>>> fvirtual -noproxydel
>>>>>                        -fastproxy -fastinit -fastunpack -
>>>>> fastquery -modernargs -nobuildnone
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure which version adds those optimizations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gaëtan
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 23 janv. 11 à 14:59, Bradley Lowekamp a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Gaetan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You said that you  got a lot of performance gain from a newer
>>>>>> version of SWIG. I don't see which version number you recommend.
>>>>>> I have SWIG 1.3.31 that came with my mac. Which version do you
>>>>>> recommend?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 23, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear developers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've juste merged the WrapITK branch from
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/ComplexSystemsModeling/ITK/tree/wrapitk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in the ITK main repository. I would have prefer to merge the
>>>>>>> branch
>>>>>>> without changes, to be able to continue the development in the
>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>> place, but unfortunately I had to rebase the branch to add the
>>>>>>> required prefix in the commit name. When we began to work on
>>>>>>> WrapITK
>>>>>>> branch, this was not enforced by a hook.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The CSwig wrapper has been removed. The most important changes
>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>> listed at
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/wrapitk/wiki/Release030
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A few other thing are not listed there - mostly improved wrapping
>>>>>>> coverage and an explicit instantiation prototype.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So far everything seems to be OK on the dashboard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please let me know any problem you may find.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gaëtan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 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  http://www.itk.org
>>>>>>> http://www.mandriva.org  http://www.bepo.fr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <PGP.sig><ATT00001..txt>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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  http://www.itk.org
>>>>> http://www.mandriva.org  http://www.bepo.fr
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ========================================================
>>>> Bradley Lowekamp
>>>> Lockheed Martin Contractor for
>>>> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>>>> National Library of Medicine
>>>> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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  http://www.itk.org
>>> http://www.mandriva.org  http://www.bepo.fr
>>>
>>
>> ========================================================
>> Bradley Lowekamp
>> Lockheed Martin Contractor for
>> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>> National Library of Medicine
>> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
>>
>>
>
>--
>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  http://www.itk.org
>http://www.mandriva.org  http://www.bepo.fr
>
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