[slicer-devel] [vtkusers] Missing headers when compiling Slicer3

[Bill Lorensen]

Steve,

Sounds like a vtk install problem. Maybe we can tickle someone at Kitware to
look into it.

Bill

On Dec 10, 2007 3:40 PM, Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Peter -
>
> Yes, it sounds like there's a difference between building slicer against
> an installed vtk rather than the build tree.  Can you build slicer by
> pointing at your vtk build tree for now?
>
> Regarding "VoxelView" format - I don't know... Slicer3 now relies on the
> ITK IO factory for reading and writing and it's 'fairly' easy to
> implement these as long as your data is pretty standard volumes.
>
> Best,
> Steve
>
>
> Peter Wainwright wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 09:46 -0500, Steve Pieper wrote:
> >> Hi Bill, Peter -
> >>
> >> Yes, slicer3 is typically built against the VTK-5-0 cvs branch.
> >>
> >> I ran a slicer3 build against the vtk head and didn't see any issues.
> >> Is your build against an install tree or a build tree?
> >
> > I guess you would say it was against an "install tree"?  That is to say
> > I did "make install" to install all the prerequisite packages in a
> > common prefix "/usr/local/Vis" and then built Slicer3 for the same
> > prefix.
> >
> > After installing those 2 headers Slicer3 built, installed and ran.  I
> > have not used it in anger since the data I am interested in is in an
> > antique format and I have not been able to load it yet...  do you have
> > any tools for importing the "VoxelView" file format?  If not I must
> > learn how to write an import module myself...
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >> Good luck,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> Bill Lorensen wrote:
> >>> Peter,
> >>>
> >>> I've cross-posted this to the slicer developers list.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think that Slicer3 builds against VTK cvs. I believe the
> >>> recommended VTK branch is: VTK-5-0.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>> On Dec 9, 2007 5:58 AM, Peter Wainwright <prw at ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk
> >>> <mailto:prw at ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Hi,
> >>>
> >>>     I'm trying to compile the latest SVN version of Slicer3
> >>>
> >>>     http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3
> >>>
> >>>     using the latest CVS version of VTK.  The compilation complains
> about a
> >>>     couple of missing headers:
> >>>
> >>>     [ 16%] Building CXX object
> Libs/MRML/CMakeFiles/MRML.dir/vtkMRMLScene.o
> >>>     In file included
> >>>     from /usr/local/Vis3/bin/../include/vtk-5.1
> /vtksys/hash_map.hxx:42,
> >>>
> >>>     from /home/prw/src/Slicer3-20071209/Libs/MRML/vtkMRMLScene.h:32,
> >>>
> >>>     from /home/prw/src/Slicer3-20071209/Libs/MRML/vtkMRMLScene.cxx:22:
> >>>     /usr/local/Vis3/bin/../include/vtk-5.1/vtksys/hashtable.hxx:44:43:
> >>>     error: vtksys/cstddef: No such file or directory
> >>>     make[2]: *** [Libs/MRML/CMakeFiles/MRML.dir/vtkMRMLScene.o] Error
> 1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     /home/prw/src/Slicer3-20071209/Base/Logic/vtkImageSlice.cxx:27:35:
> >>>     error: vtkTemplateAliasMacro.h: No such file or directory
> >>>     make[2]: ***
> [Base/Logic/CMakeFiles/SlicerBaseLogic.dir/vtkImageSlice.o]
> >>>     Error 1
> >>>     make[1]: *** [Base/Logic/CMakeFiles/SlicerBaseLogic.dir/all] Error
> 2
> >>>     make: *** [all] Error 2
> >>>
> >>>     I have found the same problem in CVS/SVN versions of VTK/Slicer3
> for
> >>>     several months now.  I work around the problem by manually
> "installing"
> >>>     the header files where Slicer3 expects to find them.
> >>>
> >>>     Can you tell me whether these are public headers (in which case
> VTK
> >>>     should be fixed to install them) or whether they are internal
> private
> >>>     headers (in which case Slicer3 should not be using them)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     Thanks,
> >>>     Peter Wainwright
> >>>
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