[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Mapping from vtk5 to vtk6 libraries

[Bill Lorensen]

The script
VTK/Utilities/Maintenance/WhatModulesVTK.py
will report what modules your source code uses.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:05 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to the developers list:
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> David
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> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
>>
>> +++ Wookey [2014-06-05 21:12 +0100]:
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>> > VTK6 seems to have hundreds of libraries where VTK5 only had a few. I
>> > read a few wiki pages, but didn't see a simple way of working out what I
>> > should now be linking with. Note that I know very little about the
>> > codebase, and less about VTK - I just build it. Upstream knows what
>> > VTK functionality they used.
>> >
>> > So currently I have:
>> > VTKLIBS = -lvtkHybrid -lvtkImaging -lvtkIO -lvtkGraphics -lvtkFiltering
>> > -lvtkCommon -lvtkjpeg -lvtkpng -lvtkzlib -lvtksys
>> >
>> > What is the VTK6 equivalent?
>>
>> Hmm, I thought that this would be a very easy question for you guys.
>>
>> Currently my build fails with:
>>
>> c++ -o .././loch/loch -Wall .././loch/lxR2P.o .././loch/lxTR.o
>> .././loch/lxOGLFT.o .././loch/lxSetup.o .././loch/lxRender.o
>> .././loch/lxWX.o .././loch/lxImgIO.o .././loch/lxLRUD.o .././loch/lxFile.o
>> .././loch/lxSTree.o .././loch/lxData.o .././loch/lxMath.o
>> .././loch/lxSView.o .././loch/lxSScene.o .././loch/lxGUI.o .././loch/lxGLC.o
>> .././loch/lxOptDlg.o .././loch/lxAboutDlg.o .././loch/img.o
>> -lwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -pthread -Wl,-z,relro
>> -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu   -lwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8
>> -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_html-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8
>> -lwx_gtk2u_core-2.8 -lwx_baseu_xml-2.8 -lwx_baseu_net-2.8 -lwx_baseu-2.8
>> -lvtkHybrid -lvtkImaging -lvtkIO -lvtkGraphics -lvtkFiltering -lvtkCommon
>> -lfreetype -lpthread -lz -lpng12 -lGLU -lGL  -ljpeg -lX11 -s
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkHybrid
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkImaging
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkIO
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkGraphics
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkFiltering
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkCommon
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> And indeed, the above libs no longer exist.
>>
>> dpkg -L libvtk6 | grep libvtk | xargs readlink | sort | uniq | wc -l
>>
>> gives 363 library files (!), mostly with rather long names.
>> (on vtk5.8 there were 23 libraries)
>>
>> How do I work out which ones are needed? Is there some way of looking
>> at functions the program uses and mapping those to library names?
>>
>> Wookey
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