[Insight-users] Building ITK and VTK on linux

[Bill Lorensen]

Certainly the best solution, but your troubles point out that we need a better vtk-itk synchronization.

Bill

At 01:59 PM 1/19/03 -0500, Ofri Sadowsky wrote:
>Simpler solution -- use all-cvs version of vtk and itk. This seems to work.
>
>Ofri.
>
>Bill Lorensen wrote:
>
>> Ofri,
>> You have entered vtk/itk version hell. There is hope, but you may have to make a couple of fixes to your itk1.0. The errors are because the vtk developers have been sweeping through vtk to remove "unnecessary" include files. So, go into vtk2itk.cxx and add
>> #include "vtkCellArray.h"
>>
>> There may be other places you will have to do this.
>>
>> Sorry about the inconvenience,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> At 03:59 PM 1/17/03 -0500, Ofri Sadowsky wrote:
>> >Hi Bill & All,
>> >
>> >I installed the newest cvs version of VTK (I think it's 4.1.something) and rebuilt the whole VTK from
>> >scratch. Then I rebuild Insight 1.0.0 again from scratch, but I keep getting compilation errors. Now
>> >it's in the file:
>> >
>> >InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx
>> >
>> >and the last error message is
>> >
>> >In
>> >   function `vtkUnstructuredGrid* MeshToUnstructuredGrid(floatMesh*)':
>> >/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:271: no
>> >   method `vtkCellArray::New'
>> >/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:272: invalid
>> >   use of undefined type `struct vtkCellArray'
>> >/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/vtk4x-cvs/VTK/IO/vtkDataWriter.h:36: forward   declaration of
>> >`struct vtkCellArray'
>> >/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx:292: invalid
>> >   use of undefined type `struct vtkCellArray'
>> >/usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/vtk4x-cvs/VTK/IO/vtkDataWriter.h:36: forward   declaration of
>> >`struct vtkCellArray'
>> >
>> >
>> >Now, I cannot be sure if the problem is because of the VTK version or because of ITK. All I could find
>> >on the VTK web page was:
>> >
>> >1. Download VTK 4.0
>> >2. Download VTK 4.x Nightly Release
>> >3. Unsupported Linux Pre-Compiled Binaries (RPMS)
>> >
>> >The unofficial rpm has problems with TCL support, so I dropped it. But in general it should be no
>> >different from the nightly release. Bill has ruled out the use of VTK 4.0. What is the next step, then?
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Ofri.
>> >
>> >
>> >"Lorensen, William E (Research)" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Orfi,
>> >>
>> >> I suspect that ITK will not build witk VTK4.0. 4.0 is about a year old and, if I recall, itk may be
>> >> taking advantage of features added shortly after the VTK 4.0 release. We are attempting to
>> >> synchronize a vtk 4.2 and itk 1.1 release in the next few weeks. If you can't wait for that, you'll
>> >> have to take cvs checkouts of both systems.
>> >>
>> >> Bill
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Ofri Sadowsky [mailto:ofri@cs.jhu.edu]
>> >> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:22 PM
>> >> To: insight users
>> >> Subject: [Insight-users] Building ITK and VTK on linux
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to build the Insight 1.0.0 release on a Linux workstation,
>> >> where VTK 4.0 has already been installed.
>> >>
>> >> The ITK package without VTK examples is built successfully. But when
>> >> I tryo to add the VTK examples - by setting
>> >>
>> >> BUILD_EXAMPLES                   ON
>> >> USE_VTK                          ON
>> >>
>> >> in ccmake, the build fails on the file
>> >>
>> >> InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Examples/vtkITK/Common/vtkITKMutualInformationTransform.cxx
>> >>
>> >> with many errors. The last of which is
>> >> "class vtkITKMutualInformationTransform' has no member named
>> >> `Superclass'
>> >> /usr/local/erc-share/downloaded-src/itk10/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Examples/vtkITK/Common/vtkITKMutualInf
>> >> ormationTransform.cxx:90:
>> >> parse
>> >>    error before `::' token"
>> >>
>> >> I use gmake and g++/gcc for the compilation. The operating system is
>> >> "Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)". The error occurs only if both the
>> >> above flags are ON. cmake and ccmake do not report any problems.
>> >>
>> >> Please help me find the problems, as I would like to evaluate the use of
>> >> VTK and ITK together.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Ofri.
>> >>
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