[vtkusers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready

Fri Feb 27 10:04:43 EST 2015

Looking into these.

I'm strongly leaning towards fixes for examples without tests and smp
example not compiling on windows in 6.3.

Dzenan, please file bug reports for each one so that we keep on track with
them.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of the same compiler issues exist with VS2012 x64.
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using VS2013 Community Edition targeting AMD64.
>>
>> This error appears when compiling in both release and debug mode:
>> M:\Dev\VTK-6.2.0.rc1\Examples\ParallelProcessing\SMP\Cxx\vtkSMPMinMaxTree.cxx(81):
>> error C3861: '__sync_add_and_fetch': identifier not found
>>
>> In debug mode there is a linking error with tbb_debug.lib, even though I
>> specified its path in CMake configuration step along with all other things
>> setting VTK_SMP_IMPEMENTATION_TYPE to TBB required. It happens
>> for vtkFiltersModelingCxxTests, AmbientSpheres and many others. Example
>> message:
>> 5>------ Build started: Project: vtkFiltersSMPCxxTests, Configuration:
>> Debug x64 ------
>> 5>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'tbb_debug.lib'
>> Build: 2 succeeded, 117 failed, 124 up-to-date, 7 skipped
>>
>> Also, this warning is repeated many times over (always for tutorial
>> step6):
>> CMake Warning (dev) in Examples/Tutorial/Step6/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt:
>>   Policy CMP0020 is not set: Automatically link Qt executables to qtmain
>>   target on Windows.  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0020" for policy
>> details.
>>   Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this
>> warning.
>> This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That file is part of a binary release of Qt 5.4.0.
>>>
>>> Another problem: enabling build_examples without enabling Build_Testing
>>> gives off "Requested modules not available: vtkTestingCore".
>>>
>>> Enabling Build_Testing creates COPY_ONLY issue. This issue disappears
>>> when using QT 5.4.1. In 5.4.1's version of Qt5CoreMacros.cmake that
>>> string is COPYONLY - so they have fixed it.
>>>
>>> I am now building it with examples and testing on. If I run into any
>>> more issues I will let you know.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:33 PM, David E DeMarle <
>>> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is this file?
>>>>
>>>> C:/Dev/Qt5.4.0/5.4/msvc2013_64_opengl/lib/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake
>>>> Maybe it needs "COPY_ONLY" replaced with "COPYONLY"
>>>>
>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> I managed to select CMake configuration options which cause a
>>>>> mysterious error: configure_file called with unknown argument(s):
>>>>>  COPY_ONLY.
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached are my changes to the configuration and CMake's configure log
>>>>> (error is at the end).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:43 PM, David E DeMarle <
>>>>> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The VTK developement team is happy to announce that VTK 6.2 has
>>>>>> entered the release candidate stage!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or
>>>>>> the bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 6.2.0 final.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The official release notes will be available when VTK final is
>>>>>> released in the next few weeks. In the meantime here is a preview:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> VTK’s use of the parallelism available in modern architectures
>>>>>> continues to mature. To set the stage for this move, we have refactored how
>>>>>> pieces and extents are handled in the pipeline. The pipeline used to inject
>>>>>> extent translators into the pipeline to obtain structured sub-extents for
>>>>>> each requested unstructured piece. This approach had flaws so now the
>>>>>> translation responsibility falls to the readers which are best able to make
>>>>>> the computation and parallel filters are now responsible for dealing
>>>>>> gracefully with unexpected extents. Next we have we have updated to the
>>>>>> latest version of the Dax toolkit and begun to lay the groundwork for
>>>>>> adopting the vtk-m project as a successor to the Piston, Dax, and EAVL
>>>>>> efforts. There have  been a series of minor improvements to the SMP
>>>>>> framework and vtkSMP filters too as we get ready to adopt them in a large
>>>>>> swath of VTK’s algorithms. In related work, note that we have begun to
>>>>>> support Xeon Phi (MIC) chips. For information about this please refer to: h
>>>>>> ttp://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29
>>>>>> <http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Similarly VTK’s support for the Web continues to advance in this
>>>>>> release. VTK-Web has migrated to WAMP 2.0 in 6.2 and there are now complete
>>>>>> and updated examples of using the web launcher to start vtkweb
>>>>>> applications. vtkWeb applications now support http-only server/client
>>>>>> configurations for situations when websockets are not acceptable. There
>>>>>> were also improvements made to VTK to support the creation and use of
>>>>>> Cinema and Workbench applications (in-situ deferred visualization) that are
>>>>>> described in a SuperComputing 2015 paper “An Image-based Approach to
>>>>>> Extreme Scale In Situ Visualization and Analysis”
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wrapped languages have gotten a share of the attention in this
>>>>>> release. There have been several fixes for ActiViz.Net which was recently
>>>>>> updated from 5.8 to VTK 6.1 and will soon be updated again to 6.2. The Tcl
>>>>>> examples have finally been upgraded following modularization and note that
>>>>>> it is now mandatory to invoke the method Start on the instance of
>>>>>> vtkRenderInteractor from Tcl. In Java, vtkPanel’s behavior was changed to
>>>>>> better support advanced class loader system like OSGI. VTK’s dashboards now
>>>>>> automatically build redistributable packages on Windows, Linux and Mac that
>>>>>> will allow us to feed Maven.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Python has received the heaviest dose of updates. Wrapped namespaces
>>>>>> and enum types are now available in Python. We’ve also made significant
>>>>>> improvements to the VTK-numpy integration by introducing a number of Python
>>>>>> modules that provide numpy-compatible interfaces to VTK data structures.
>>>>>> See http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/723 for details. We’ve
>>>>>> also introduced vtkPythonAlgorithm, which makes it easier than ever to
>>>>>> quickly extend VTK with filters that are written directly in Python. See
>>>>>> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/737 for details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> VTK’s rendering is making both evolutionary and revolutionary
>>>>>> advances in this release. The evolutionary changes include the usual number
>>>>>> of incremental improvements. These include such things like advanced color
>>>>>> and display controls, "sticky" axes mode for vtkCubeAxesActor, out of range
>>>>>> color assignments, and indexed color lookups for vtkStringArrays. There are
>>>>>> also a number of text rendering improvements such as better  multiline,
>>>>>> rotated, and aligned text as well as BackgroundColor and BackgroundOpacity
>>>>>> options.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The revolutionary changes can be found in the OpenGL2 modules. These
>>>>>> are under active development at the moment, and the API will be subject to
>>>>>> change in the next release, but early adopters are encouraged to try it out
>>>>>> and report their experiences with it on the mailing list. OpenGL2 is a
>>>>>> rewrite of VTK’s rendering backend that brings VTK up to date with modern
>>>>>> OpenGL programming practices. By replacing antiquated rendering techniques
>>>>>> with modern ones, we have increased rendering performance by orders of
>>>>>> magnitude in some situations. This work, funded by the NIH VTK Maintenance
>>>>>> grant touches both surface and volume rendering techniques. You can read
>>>>>> about OpenGL2 at: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/144 and
>>>>>> http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Besides the above progress some of the most notable changes in VTK
>>>>>> 6.2 include
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    deprecated InfovisParallel
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    vtkIOXdmf3, an interface to ARL’s greatly improved interface to
>>>>>>    HDF5 backed data storage
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    added a reader and writer for NIfTI files, including the 64-bit
>>>>>>    NIfTI-2 format
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    added support for SpaceMouse devices
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    external rendering support for immersive environments
>>>>>>    http://kitware.com/blog/home/post/688
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    removed -fobjc-gc from VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS
>>>>>>    -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Rewrote the OS X Cocoa mouse event handling code to make it more
>>>>>>    robust.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We hope you enjoy this release of VTK! As always contact Kitware and
>>>>>> the mailing lists for assistance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>>>
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