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

Dženan Zukić dzenanz at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 15:25:07 EST 2015 

Reported
http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=15354
http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=15355

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:04 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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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