[vtkusers] FW: VTK visualization

[David Doria]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM,  <L.Ding at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Dear VTK community.
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> I am writing to look for some help. My research just got stuck and a bit
> helpless.
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> I am now having a piece of code to visualise my result using VTK. This code
> is good and mature. All I need to do is compile this code and link it to the
> VTK library. However, this is where I got stuck. I am having trouble in
> modifying the Makefile in order to compile and link it to VTK library in
> supercomputer.
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> I found that there is VTK module in supercomputer. When I type module show
> xe-vtk, it gives me correct VTK library link.
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> I tried to modify the Makefile library link.
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> CC          = g++
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> CLINKER     = g++
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> CFLAGS      = -I/usr/local/packages/nag/VTK/5.8.0/GNU/include/vtk-5.8 -Wall
> –O3 -g
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> LIBS        = -L/usr/local/packages/nag/VTK/5.8.0/GNU/lib/vtk-5.8
> -lvtkImaging -lvtkFiltering -lvtkGraphics -lvtkHybrid -lvtkVolumeRendering
> -lvtkRendering  -lvtkCommon -lvtkIO -lvtkftgl -lvtksys -lvtkverdict
> -lvtkexoIIc -lvtkfreetype -lvtkNetCDF -lvtkDICOMParser -lvtkNetCDF_cxx
> -lvtkmetaio -lvtksqlite -lvtkpng -lvtkzlib -lvtkjpeg -lvtktiff -lvtkexpat
> -ldl -lpthread –lm
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> When I type make, I always got the following error message:
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> /usr/local/packages/nag/VTK/5.8.0/GNU/lib/vtk-5.8/libvtkVolumeRendering.a(vtkVolumeMapper.cxx.o):(.rodata._ZTV15vtkVolumeMapper[vtable
> for vtkVolumeMapper]+0x1f8): undefined reference to
> `vtkAbstractMapper::SetClippingPlanes(vtkPlaneCollection*)'
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> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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> make: *** [simulate] Error 1
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> Could someone teach me how to compile this code and link this code to VTK
> library in supercomputer?
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> Many thanks for your time and help.
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> Best regards
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> Lifeng
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You should use CMake to create your make file. This will take care of
everything for you automatically.

David