[Paraview-developers] Not all VTK libraries resolved correctly

[Matthias Schneider]

Hi,

I ran into some issues when trying to use VTK compiled from the latest 
ParaView sources (v4.0.1) as shared libs. For some reason, some of the 
vtk libraries stored in the VTK_LIBRARIES variable when loading the VTK 
package from within cmake cannot be resolved correctly even though they 
are present in the paraview build directory (<pv build dir>/lib) I get 
my code compiled only when manually excluding some of the libraries that 
cannot be resolved:

# VTK
FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${VTK_USE_FILE})

# manually exclude shared libs that cannot be resolved correctly
LIST(REMOVE_ITEM VTK_LIBRARIES
vtkPointSpriteRendering
vtkPointSpriteGraphics
vtkQvis
vtkUtilitiesPythonInitializer
vtkEyeDomeLighting)

ADD_EXECUTABLE(myTest myTest.cxx)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(myTest ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

I am not really familiar with the cmake mechanism to resolve the shared 
libs. The VTK_LIBRARIES variable contains the 'raw' library name (e.g. 
vtkCommonCore) whereas the linker arguments contain the library with the 
correct paraview suffix (e.g. libvtkCommonCore-pv4.so).
The hole link command (without the list remove command) then looks 
something like that:

/usr/bin/g++ [...] <pv build>/lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv4.0.so.1 [...] 
-lvtkPointSpriteRendering -lvtkPointSpriteGraphics [...] -c myTest.cxx

This of course ends up in a linker error as the vtk libs linked with -l 
cannot be resolved. Does anybody have a hint why this might happen or 
where/how to fix this to avoid the list remove command? To me it seems 
like these are mostly/all (?) paraview plugin classes that are affected 
here.

Paraview/VTK has been compilied on a 64-bit linux system with the 
following changes applied to the default cmake config:
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE -> Release
PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON -> ON
Module_vtkFiltersImaging -> ON
Module_vtkImagingMath -> ON
Module_vtkImagingStatistics -> ON
Module_vtkInfovisBoost -> ON
Module_vtkInfovisBoostGraphAlg -> ON
VTK_Group_Imaging -> ON
VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE -> ON

Any help is appreciated very much. Thanks a lot!

Best,
Matthias