[vtkusers] Find reason for exclusion of vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL in build output?

Elvis Stansvik elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com
Wed Jun 29 10:43:03 EDT 2016


2016-06-29 16:37 GMT+02:00 Sankhesh Jhaveri <sankhesh.jhaveri at kitware.com>:

> Hi Elvis,
>
> vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL module hasn't been ported to the OpenGL2 backend yet.
>
> See:
> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/commit/e58ca401466f9af4c542c085f7b599b6bde939c8
>
> ​For now, it just works with the OpenGL backend.​
>

Aha. That explains it. Thanks.

Are there any big downsides to using the OpenGL backend? What are the main
benefits of the OpenGL2 backend?

Elvis


>
> ​Sankhesh​
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building a custom Ubuntu package of VTK-7.0.0 at this PPA:
>>
>>     https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7
>>
>> the full build log is at:
>>
>>
>> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/261625779/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.vtk7_7.0.0-0ubuntu2_BUILDING.txt.gz
>>
>> I only recently discovered that the vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL module was not
>> included.
>>
>> Anyone know how I can deduce from the build log why it wasn't built?
>>
>> The only relevant message I could find in the CMake output is:
>>
>>     -- Group Qt modules:
>> vtkRenderingQt;vtkGUISupportQtSQL;vtkGUISupportQt;vtkViewsQt
>>
>> But I can't find anything stating the reason for vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL
>> not being built.
>>
>> The build slave has libqt5opengl5 and libqt5opengl5-dev installed (search
>> for "Setting up libqt5opengl5" in the build log linked above).
>>
>> Do I have to specify something more than -DVTK_Group_Qt=ON and
>> -DVTK_QT_VERSION=5 to get this module?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Elvis
>>
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