[vtkusers] Compiling VTK 6.1.0 fails on Red Hat Enterprise GNU/Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)

[Bill Lorensen]

I have built ITK, VTK, Slicer on Fedora 20 after this:
yum groupinstall "C Development Tools"
yum install git-core
yum install svn
yum install libX11-devel
yum install libXt-devel
yum install mesa-libGL-devel
yum install mesa-libGLU-devel
yum install cmake
yum install tcl-devel
yum install python-devel
yum install qt-devel
yum install qt-webkit-devel


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Omid <omidlink at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for your almost immediate response! As you suggested, I changed
> the title and posted the message again.
>
> Omid
>
> Sent from my Emacs
>
> On 03/06/2014 06:13 PM, David Gobbi wrote:
>> Hi Omid,
>>
>> It's definitely not because your gcc is too old, VTK 6.1 builds just
>> fine even with gcc 4.2.
>>
>> My best guess is that your system does not have all of the necessary
>> -devel packages installed.  I haven't used a redhat-based system in a
>> very long time, so I can't tell you exactly what devel packages you
>> have to install.
>>
>> I suggest that you re-post your question with a subject like "I'm
>> trying to install VTK on system X" where "X" is the exact name of
>> the linux distro you are using.  That will attract attention of other
>> people who use the same distro.
>>
>>   David
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Omid <omidlink at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile VTK 6.1.0. After configuring with
>>>
>>> ccmake .
>>>
>>> with the following configuration
>>>
>>> BUILD_DOCUMENTATION              OFF
>>> BUILD_EXAMPLES                   OFF
>>> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS                ON
>>> BUILD_TESTING                    OFF
>>> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE                 Debug
>>> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX             $OPT
>>> EXECINFO_LIB                     EXECINFO_LIB-NOTFOUND
>>> VTK_EXTRA_COMPILER_WARNINGS      OFF
>>> VTK_Group_Imaging                OFF
>>> VTK_Group_MPI                    OFF
>>> VTK_Group_Qt                     OFF
>>> VTK_Group_Rendering              ON
>>> VTK_Group_StandAlone             ON
>>> VTK_Group_Tk                     OFF
>>> VTK_Group_Views                  OFF
>>> VTK_Group_Web                    OFF
>>> VTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE      Sequential
>>> VTK_USE_LARGE_DATA               OFF
>>> VTK_WRAP_JAVA                    OFF
>>> VTK_WRAP_PYTHON                  OFF
>>> VTK_WRAP_TCL                     OFF
>>>
>>> I get the following compile error upon invoking make:
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_algobase.h:544:
>>> error: no type named 'difference_type' in 'struct
>>> std::iterator_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*>'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_algobase.h:544:
>>> error: no type named 'difference_type' in 'struct
>>> std::iterator_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*>'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_algobase.h:544:
>>> error: no type named 'difference_type' in 'struct
>>> std::iterator_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*>'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_algobase.h:544:
>>> error: no type named 'difference_type' in 'struct
>>> std::iterator_traits<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*>'
>>> In file included from
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/vector:64,
>>>                  from
>>> /panfs/storage.local/genacc/home/ok10c/software/VTK-6.1.0/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/stl/vector:36,
>>>                  from
>>> /panfs/storage.local/genacc/home/ok10c/software/VTK-6.1.0/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/Directory.cxx:20:
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:
>>> In static member function 'static _ForwardIterator
>>> std::__uninitialized_copy<<anonymous>
>>>> ::uninitialized_copy(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, _ForwardIterator)
>>> [with _InputIterator = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*, _ForwardIterator = std::basic_string<char,
>>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*, bool <anonymous> = false]':
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:117:
>>>   instantiated from '_ForwardIterator
>>> std::uninitialized_copy(_InputIterator, _InputIterator,
>>> _ForwardIterator) [with _InputIterator = std::basic_string<char,
>>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*, _ForwardIterator =
>>> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*]'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:257:
>>>   instantiated from '_ForwardIterator
>>> std::__uninitialized_copy_a(_InputIterator, _InputIterator,
>>> _ForwardIterator, std::allocator<_Tp>&) [with _InputIterator =
>>> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*,
>>> _ForwardIterator = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*, _Tp = std::basic_string<char,
>>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >]'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:267:
>>>   instantiated from '_ForwardIterator
>>> std::__uninitialized_move_a(_InputIterator, _InputIterator,
>>> _ForwardIterator, _Allocator&) [with _InputIterator =
>>> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*,
>>> _ForwardIterator = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >*, _Allocator =
>>> std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> > >]'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/vector.tcc:338:
>>>   instantiated from 'void std::vector<_Tp,
>>> _Alloc>::_M_insert_aux(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<typename
>>> std::_Vector_base<_Tp, _Alloc>::_Tp_alloc_type::pointer,
>>> std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc> >, const _Tp&) [with _Tp =
>>> std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >,
>>> _Alloc = std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> > >]'
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_vector.h:741:
>>>   instantiated from 'void std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(const
>>> _Tp&) [with _Tp = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>>> std::allocator<char> >, _Alloc = std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,
>>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >]'
>>> /panfs/storage.local/genacc/home/ok10c/software/VTK-6.1.0/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/Directory.cxx:226:
>>>   instantiated from here
>>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:74:
>>> error: no matching function for call to 'operator new(long unsigned int,
>>> void*)'
>>> <built-in>:0: note: candidates are: void* operator new(long unsigned int)
>>> make[2]: ***
>>> [Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/CMakeFiles/vtksys.dir/Directory.cxx.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/CMakeFiles/vtksys.dir/all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> I thought the reason could be that the gcc compiler is too old (4.4.6)
>>> and may not support some of the newer language features (like new). I
>>> installed the latest stable gcc (4.8.2) and tried instructing ccmake
>>> to use the new gcc using
>>>
>>> env CC=$(which gcc) CXX=$(which gcc) ccmake .
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> CC=$(which gcc) CXX=$(which gcc) ccmake .
>>>
>>> where $(which gcc) returns the path to the new gcc. But the output and
>>> the errors are still the same (referring to gcc 4.4.6). It looks like
>>> the new gcc is not picked up by ccmake. Doing a find grep, I don't
>>> see where the CC or CXX variables may have been set (they are not in
>>> the Makefile). Any help towards solving this is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Omid
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