[vtk-developers] python, postgreSQL, VTK build

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Fri Aug 29 16:45:30 EDT 2008


Set POSTGRES_LIBRARIES to the full path to the pq dylib...

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Darren Weber
<darren.weber.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> For my install of PGSQL, I had to build pqxx from source and I have the
> following libraries:
>
> [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$ ls
> /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/
> libecpg.6.0.dylib*  libecpg.dylib@             libecpg_compat.a
> libpgtypes.3.0.dylib*  libpgtypes.dylib@  libpq.a
> libecpg.6.dylib@    libecpg_compat.3.0.dylib*  libecpg_compat.dylib@
> libpgtypes.3.dylib@    libpq.5.1.dylib*   libpq.dylib@
> libecpg.a           libecpg_compat.3.dylib@    libpgport.a
> libpgtypes.a           libpq.5.dylib@     postgresql/
> [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$
> [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$ ls /usr/local/lib/libpqxx*
> /usr/local/lib/libpqxx-3.0.0.dylib*  /usr/local/lib/libpqxx.a
> /usr/local/lib/libpqxx.dylib@  /usr/local/lib/libpqxx.la*
> [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$
>
>
> This is what I see for a VTK-5-2 checkout in VTK/IO/CMakeLists.txt (just
> the PGSQL section):
>
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # PostgreSQL
> # build the PostgreSQL database backend (if the PostgresSQL and pqxx
> libraries are available)
> #
> OPTION( VTK_USE_POSTGRES "Build the PostgreSQL driver for vtkSQLDatabase."
> OFF)
> MARK_AS_ADVANCED(VTK_USE_POSTGRES)
> IF ( VTK_USE_POSTGRES )
>   FIND_PACKAGE( PQXX REQUIRED )
>   IF ( BUILD_TESTING )
>     SET ( VTK_PSQL_TEST_URL "" CACHE STRING "A URL for a PostgreSQL server
> of the form psql://[[username[:password]@]hostname[:port]]/[dbname]" )
>   ENDIF ( BUILD_TESTING )
> ENDIF ( VTK_USE_POSTGRES )
> #
> # Only include the Postgres backend if the user has explicitly turned on
> # VTK_USE_POSTGRES. If so, user must also have set POSTGRES_LIBRARIES
> # and POSTGRES_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES to valid values.
> IF ( VTK_USE_POSTGRES AND PQXX_FOUND )
>   INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${PQXX_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES} )
>   SET( Kit_SRCS
>     ${Kit_SRCS}
>     vtkPostgreSQLDatabase.cxx
>     vtkPostgreSQLQuery.cxx
>   )
>   LINK_LIBRARIES( ${PQXX_LIBRARIES} )
> ENDIF ( VTK_USE_POSTGRES AND PQXX_FOUND )
>
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> So I changed the LINK_LIBRARIES as suggested and I'm running ccmake in the
> same build (I don't want to scrap it and lose the cache completely, it has a
> lot of settings that I need).  So now ccmake is finding:
>
> PQXX_HEADER_PATH /usr/local/include
> PQXX_LIBRARY
> /usr/local/lib/libpqxx.dylib
>
> PQXX_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES         /usr/local/include
> PQXX_LIBRARIES                   /usr/local/lib/libpqxx.dylib
>
> POSTGRES_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
> /opt/local/include/postgresql83
>
> POSTGRES_LIBRARIES
> /opt/local/lib/postgresql83
>
>
> In my case, I first installed PGSQL with macports and then removed it using
> macports.  So, ccmake has a stale entry that is not updated when I run it
> again.  I should probably scrap this build directory and start again.  Maybe
> there is a way to ensure ccmake double-checks the cache entries?  That might
> be easier, because a lot of this build is already done.  It should be
> finding the /Library/PostgreSQL/ path, which is what I used to build the
> pqxx library (there was no pqxx in macports).
>
> So, I've tried to manually change the POSTGRES* paths to:
>
> POSTGRES_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/include
> POSTGRES_LIBRARIES /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib
>
> However, I got a stack of warnings at the end of the generation (for most
> vtk components):
>
> WARNING: Target "vtkIO" requests linking to directory
> "/Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib".  Targets may link only to libraries.  CMake
> is dropping the entry.
>
>
> So then I set all the PGSQL and PQXX paths to an empty value and I toggled
> off and on VTK_USE_POSTGRESQL and it came back with:
>
> PQXX NOT FOUND
>
> and the PGSQL paths remained empty.  I'm stumbling around in the dark :-(
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> As David Thompson rightfully pointed out, we should not be using
>> LINK_LIBRARIES in VTK's CMakeLists.txt files.
>> Change the LINK_LIBRARIES statement in VTK/IO/CMakeLists.txt to:
>>     SET(KIT_LIBS ${KIT_LIBS} ${POSTGRES_LIBRARIES})
>>
>> and make sure that POSTGRES_LIBRARIES has the full path to pq in it, and
>> it should work.
>>
>> Let us know if it works, and we will commit that change to CVS HEAD in
>> VTK.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David Cole
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Darren Weber <
>> darren.weber.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I had some choices on how to install MySQL and PostgreSQL on OS X
>>> (Leopard Server, in my case).  There is a "default" install of MySQL for
>>> Leopard server, but it had no development libraries that I could find.
>>> There was no default install of PostgreSQL.  I first tried macports, but I
>>> found some problems with those installations (can't recall the details
>>> now).  I moved to install binaries from the main web sites for both MySQL
>>> and PostgreSQL.  Those binary installs mostly take care of a few
>>> configuration issues (although there are some startup and symlink issues for
>>> MySQL; I had to create symlinks in /usr/bin to point to
>>> /usr/local/mysql/bin; /usr/local/mysql is a symlink to
>>> /usr/local/mysql-<version>).  The PostgreSQL installs into
>>> /Library/PostgreSQL/<version>/*
>>>
>>> I started looking into dyld, but I'm not sure that's the problem here.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can run just the cmake utility that should find these
>>> libraries?  I noticed in the ccmake curses interface that the libraries were
>>> found or I just entered the "right" path values.  I'll double check that.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:24 PM, David Thompson <dcthomp at sandia.gov>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:58 -0600, David Cole wrote:
>>>> > Nevertheless, you should at least be able to link to it if you specify
>>>> > the full path to the library. Where is the CMake code that does
>>>> > TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES for this lib?
>>>>
>>>> The PostgreSQL library is located with this script:
>>>>   VTK/CMake/FindPOSTGRES.cmake
>>>> and a call to LINK_LIBRARIES is made here:
>>>>   VTK/IO/CMakeLists.txt
>>>> if PostgreSQL is turned on. Interestingly, LINK_LIBRARIES is used
>>>> instead of TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES. Perhaps that should be changed to
>>>> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (both for PostgreSQL and MySQL)? Also, perhaps on
>>>> MacOS X there are some dependent libraries required that are not being
>>>> located? The FindPOSTGRES.cmake script doesn't look for any, so if zlib
>>>> or any ssl libraries are required that might cause trouble in the case
>>>> where libpq is static.
>>>>
>>>>        David
>>>>
>>>> >  Do we use FIND_LIBRARY to get this lib path when linking to it or
>>>> > what?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Is there a Postgres SQL VTK developer out there?
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 2008/8/29 Darren Weber <darren.weber.lists at gmail.com>
>>>> >
>>>> >         For the record, there's some useful information on OS X
>>>> >         library paths in
>>>> >         'man dyld'
>>>> >
>>>> >         I assume the binary install of postgreSQL is not adding to one
>>>> >         of these path settings.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >         On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Darren Weber
>>>> >         <darren.weber.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >                 I've got a link error when building VTK on OSX.  I've
>>>> >                 enabled postgresql and python wrapping.
>>>> >
>>>> >                 [ 73%] Built target vtk
>>>> >                 Scanning dependencies of target vtkpython
>>>> >                 [ 73%] Building CXX object
>>>> >
>>>> Wrapping/Python/CMakeFiles/vtkpython.dir/vtkPythonAppInit.o
>>>> >                 Linking CXX executable ../../bin/vtkpython
>>>> >                 ld: file not found: libpq.5.dylib
>>>> >                 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> >                 make[2]: *** [bin/vtkpython] Error 1
>>>> >                 make[1]: ***
>>>> >                 [Wrapping/Python/CMakeFiles/vtkpython.dir/all] Error 2
>>>> >                 make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >                 I've used the binary installer for postgresql, which
>>>> >                 goes into /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/*
>>>> >
>>>> >                 [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$
>>>> >                 ls /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/
>>>> >                 libecpg.6.0.dylib*  libecpg.dylib@
>>>> >                 libecpg_compat.a       libpgtypes.3.0.dylib*
>>>> >                 libpgtypes.dylib@  libpq.a
>>>> >                 libecpg.6.dylib@    libecpg_compat.3.0.dylib*
>>>> >                 libecpg_compat.dylib@  libpgtypes.3.dylib@
>>>> >                 libpq.5.1.dylib*   libpq.dylib@
>>>> >                 libecpg.a           libecpg_compat.3.dylib@
>>>> >                 libpgport.a            libpgtypes.a
>>>> >                 libpq.5.dylib@     postgresql/
>>>> >                 [ dweber at elegans ~/src/kitware/VTK_build ]$
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >                 Is this a simple problem of loading up an LD path or
>>>> >                 something so the build can find it?  What's the best
>>>> >                 way to do this on OSX?
>>>> >
>>>> >                 Thanks, Darren
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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