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    • Closed Issue created by George Profenza @orgicus

    Hi,

    I'm amazed by the plethora of great examples and I'd like to learn more.

    I've tried building them all based on the instructions:

    cd vtk-examples
cd build
cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=YOUR_VTK_BIN_DIR -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=ON ..
make

    I'm running into two issues:

    1. for some reasons the generated vcxproj files sometimes miss include and library paths
    2. I get vtkInteractorStyle related errors on a some examples:
    vtkInteractorStyleSwitc:37    WARN| vtkInteractorStyleSwitchBase (00000189831BE010): Warning: Link to vtkInteractionStyle for default style selection.

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\BooleanOperationImplicitFunctions.exe (process 30716) exited with code 0.

    I double checked and indeed I am linking against vtkInteractionStyle-9.0.lib

    I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've built VTK-9.0 from source and using the following:

    • include dir: C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\include\vtk-9.0
    • lib dir: C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib
    • libs:
    vtkChartsCore-9.0.lib
vtkCommonColor-9.0.lib
vtkCommonComputationalGeometry-9.0.lib
vtkCommonCore-9.0.lib
vtkCommonDataModel-9.0.lib
vtkCommonExecutionModel-9.0.lib
vtkCommonMath-9.0.lib
vtkCommonMisc-9.0.lib
vtkCommonSystem-9.0.lib
vtkCommonTransforms-9.0.lib
vtkDICOMParser-9.0.lib
vtkDomainsChemistry-9.0.lib
vtkdoubleconversion-9.0.lib
vtkexodusII-9.0.lib
vtkexpat-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersAMR-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersCore-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersExtraction-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersFlowPaths-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersGeneral-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersGeneric-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersGeometry-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersHybrid-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersHyperTree-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersImaging-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersModeling-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersParallel-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersParallelImaging-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersPoints-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersProgrammable-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersSelection-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersSMP-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersSources-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersStatistics-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersTexture-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersTopology-9.0.lib
vtkFiltersVerdict-9.0.lib
vtkfreetype-9.0.lib
vtkGeovisCore-9.0.lib
vtkgl2ps-9.0.lib
vtkglew-9.0.lib
vtkhdf5-9.0.lib
vtkhdf5_hl-9.0.lib
vtkImagingColor-9.0.lib
vtkImagingCore-9.0.lib
vtkImagingFourier-9.0.lib
vtkImagingGeneral-9.0.lib
vtkImagingHybrid-9.0.lib
vtkImagingMath-9.0.lib
vtkImagingMorphological-9.0.lib
vtkImagingSources-9.0.lib
vtkImagingStatistics-9.0.lib
vtkImagingStencil-9.0.lib
vtkInfovisCore-9.0.lib
vtkInfovisLayout-9.0.lib
vtkInteractionImage-9.0.lib
vtkInteractionStyle-9.0.lib
vtkInteractionWidgets-9.0.lib
vtkIOAMR-9.0.lib
vtkIOAsynchronous-9.0.lib
vtkIOCityGML-9.0.lib
vtkIOCore-9.0.lib
vtkIOEnSight-9.0.lib
vtkIOExodus-9.0.lib
vtkIOExport-9.0.lib
vtkIOExportGL2PS-9.0.lib
vtkIOExportPDF-9.0.lib
vtkIOGeometry-9.0.lib
vtkIOImage-9.0.lib
vtkIOImport-9.0.lib
vtkIOInfovis-9.0.lib
vtkIOLegacy-9.0.lib
vtkIOLSDyna-9.0.lib
vtkIOMINC-9.0.lib
vtkIOMotionFX-9.0.lib
vtkIOMovie-9.0.lib
vtkIONetCDF-9.0.lib
vtkIOOggTheora-9.0.lib
vtkIOParallel-9.0.lib
vtkIOParallelXML-9.0.lib
vtkIOPLY-9.0.lib
vtkIOSegY-9.0.lib
vtkIOSQL-9.0.lib
vtkIOTecplotTable-9.0.lib
vtkIOVeraOut-9.0.lib
vtkIOVideo-9.0.lib
vtkIOXML-9.0.lib
vtkIOXMLParser-9.0.lib
vtkjpeg-9.0.lib
vtkjsoncpp-9.0.lib
vtklibharu-9.0.lib
vtklibproj-9.0.lib
vtklibxml2-9.0.lib
vtkloguru-9.0.lib
vtklz4-9.0.lib
vtklzma-9.0.lib
vtkmetaio-9.0.lib
vtknetcdf-9.0.lib
vtkogg-9.0.lib
vtkParallelCore-9.0.lib
vtkParallelDIY-9.0.lib
vtkpng-9.0.lib
vtkpugixml-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingAnnotation-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingContext2D-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingCore-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingFreeType-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingImage-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingLabel-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingLOD-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingOpenGL2-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingSceneGraph-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingUI-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingVolume-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2-9.0.lib
vtkRenderingVtkJS-9.0.lib
vtksqlite-9.0.lib
vtksys-9.0.lib
vtkTestingRendering-9.0.lib
vtktheora-9.0.lib
vtktiff-9.0.lib
vtkverdict-9.0.lib
vtkViewsContext2D-9.0.lib
vtkViewsCore-9.0.lib
vtkViewsInfovis-9.0.lib
vtkWrappingTools-9.0.lib

    I'm also attaching the cmake-gui output cmake-log.txt

    Am I missing anything obvious ? What's the recommended method of building all the examples ?

    Thank you so much, George

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      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer

        Have you added the VTK bin path to the PATH? Look at windows_path.bat.

        As for the

        No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`

        messages in cmake-log.txt I suspect that your CMake version is too old. You need Version 3.12 or later for VTK 9. I recommend downloading the latest version.

        I use VS2019 and have no issues building the vtk-examples.

        If you look at BooleanOperationImplicitFunctions you will see that vtkInteractionStyle is already added into the provided CMakeLists.txt file. If you are building it with your own CMakeLiasts.txt file you may have to manually add it. This script FindNeededModules.py is very useful for determining what modules your code needs.

      • George Profenza
        George Profenza @orgicus ·
        Author

        Hi @amaclean

        Apologies for the late reply.

        I've searched for windows_path.bat in both the main VTK and this repo and couldn't find it. I can confirm the PATH environment variable includes C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\bin Additionally the following system variables are defined:

        VTK_DIR=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib\cmake\vtk-9.0
VTK_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\include\vtk-9.0
VTK_LIBS_DIR=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib

        I'm using CMake version 3.20.0.

        I can also confirm C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\src\Cxx\PolyData\CMakeLists.txt contains vtkInteractionStyle in the find_package list of arguments.

        I'm relieved to hear you use VS2019 and have no issues building the vtk-examples. I must be missing some detail in how I'm generating / compiling VTK and vtk-examples.

        Just to double check:

        • I'm using CMakeGUI to generate a VS2019 64bit solution in folder C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build (with source in C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples)
        • VTK_DIR correctly points to C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0

        What else could I double check ?

        Thank you so much, George

        Edited by George Profenza
      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer

        Try just setting:

        set PATH=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\bin;%PATH%
set VTK_DIR=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\
set VTK_LIB=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib

        In C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install, there should be a file vtk-config-version.cmake

      • George Profenza
        George Profenza @orgicus ·
        Author

        Hi Andrew,

        I've tried setting the above but ran into errors again:

        C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples>set PATH=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\bin;%PATH%

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples>set VTK_DIR=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples>set VTK_LIB=C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples>mkdir build-amaclean

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples>cd build-amaclean

C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build-amaclean>cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.19042.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.28.29334.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.28.29334.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.28.29333/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.28.29333/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- VTKWikiExamples: Building VTKWikiExamples stand-alone
-- VTKWikiExamples: Building VTKWikiExamples stand-alone - yes
-- VTKWikiExamples: Setting executables prefix
-- VTKWikiExamples: Setting executables prefix - no
-- VTKWikiExamples: VTK VERSION: 9.0.1(OpenGL2)
-- VTKWikiExamples: Example executables are stored in C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean/bin
-- VTKWikiExamples: Tests will not be built
CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2847 (message):
  No `MODULES` passed to `vtk_modules_autoinit`.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/Cxx/DataStructures/CMakeLists.txt:48 (vtk_module_autoinit)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- VTKWikiExamples: GenericClip requires the setting TESTING_GENERIC_BRIDGE:BOOL=ON and will not be built
CMake Error at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:1136 (message):
  Failed to determine the real target for the `VTK::TestingGenericBridge`
  module.  Is a `find_package` missing a required component?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2865 (_vtk_module_real_target)
  src/Cxx/Filtering/CMakeLists.txt:57 (vtk_module_autoinit)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

        I've noticed vtk-config-version.cmake lives in C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install\lib\cmake\vtk-9.0 not C:\dev\vtk\VTK-9.0.1\build\install. I'm not sure if this simply a Windows related configuration or not and how this affects what paths vtk-examples might expect.

        The errors seems pthread related. I haven't dug deep enough to see how I could disable the pthread option.

        Using CMake GUI instead of CLI displays a different error:

        VTKWikiExamples: GenericClip requires the setting TESTING_GENERIC_BRIDGE:BOOL=ON and will not be built
CMake Error at C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:1136 (message):
  Failed to determine the real target for the `VTK::TestingGenericBridge`
  module.  Is a `find_package` missing a required component?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build/install/lib/cmake/vtk-9.0/vtkModule.cmake:2865 (_vtk_module_real_target)
  src/Cxx/Filtering/CMakeLists.txt:57 (vtk_module_autoinit)

        My hunch so far is there might be a Windows specific cmake configuration which has paths/options slightly different to UNIX.

        Double checking my install, I see I had VTK_BUILD_TESTING set to OFF. I've tried recompiling with VTK_BUILD_TESTING set to ON and additionally setting the following to WANT:

        • VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_FiltersGeneral
        • VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_FiltersGeneric
        • VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_FiltersImagingGeneral
        • VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_TestingGenericBridge

        Anything else I might be missing ?

        Thank you so much, George

      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer 
        -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.28.29333/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features

        Perhaps your compiler is not set up correctly.

      • George Profenza
        George Profenza @orgicus ·
        Author

        Hi Andrew,

        I've checked and it's only version 14.28.29333 of MSVC build tools I have currently installed and cl.exe is indeed present. If that wasn't the case none of the examples would build I assume. I also found this post hinting that cl.exe is found and no further checks are needed.

        Additionally I've attempted to build examples via CLI instead of Visual Studio and I'm confused to why some examples are missing the include (and library paths). I can manually open the solution and set the paths to VTK include directory, library directory and libraries to link against, however this probably shouldn't be required, right ?

        partial example of console output:

        -- VTKWikiExamples: Not building Qt examples
-- VTKWikiExamples: git lfs is installed.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.8.2+25e4d540b for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  1DTupleInterpolation.cxx
C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\src\Cxx\Math\1DTupleInterpolation.cxx(10,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtk
CardinalSpline.h': No such file or directory [C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\src\Cxx\Math\1DTupleInterpolation.vcxproj]
  2DArray.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\2DArray.exe
  3DArray.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\3DArray.exe
  3DSImporter.cxx
C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\src\Cxx\IO\3DSImporter.cxx(1,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtk3DSImporter.
h': No such file or directory [C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\src\Cxx\IO\3DSImporter.vcxproj]
  Actor2D.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\Actor2D.exe
  AddCell.cxx
C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\src\Cxx\Meshes\AddCell.cxx(1,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkCellArray.h'
: No such file or directory [C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\src\Cxx\Meshes\AddCell.vcxproj]
  AdjacencyMatrixToEdgeTable.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AdjacencyMatrixToEdgeTable.exe
  AffineWidget.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AffineWidget.exe
  AlgorithmFilter.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AlgorithmFilter.exe
  AlgorithmSource.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AlgorithmSource.exe
  AlignFrames.cxx
  AlignFrames.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AlignFrames.exe
  Building Custom Rule C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/src/Cxx/PolyData/CMakeLists.txt
  AlignTwoPolyDatas.cxx
  AlignTwoPolyDatas.vcxproj -> C:\dev\vtk\vtk-examples\build\bin\Release\AlignTwoPolyDatas.exe

        Many thanks, George

      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer

        I have no trouble building at all.

        Do you do something like this in your scripts?

        @call "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
        Edited by Andrew Maclean
      • George Profenza
        George Profenza @orgicus ·
        Author

        Hi Andrew,

        I'm not aware of that script. I don't explicitly call it and I've double checked the generated build folder and it doesn't seem to reference this line either.

        I've tried either building via cmake CLI: cmake --build . --config Release

        or manually opening the generated VS solution's ALL_BUILD.

        Additionally I've manually tried compiling the BooleanOperationImplicitFunctions example from a downloaded tarball, but ran into this:

        cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.19042.
Skipping BooleanOperationImplicitFunctions: Could not find the VTK package with the following required components: RenderingContextOpenGL2.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/dev/vtk/vtk-example-tarballs/BooleanOperationImplicitFunctions/build

        Not 100% how interpret this, but guessing I need double check the flags used to compile VTK itself so that is has the RenderingContextOpenGL2 component enabled ?

        What is the recommended method of compiling VTK and this vtk-examples repo ?

        Thank you for the continued support and patience, George

      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer

        Ok, that's from a ninja script so please ignore it.

        1. Have you built VTK as release or debug?
        2. When building vtk-examples you must match what vtk-examples was built with.

        If those points are correct, then see if you can build testing in VTK. If the tests run then your VTK build is Ok. If this is the case then you should have no issues building and running the vtk-examples.

        Also do you have the most recent display drivers containing OpenGL installed on your machine?

        I strongly suspect there is something wrong in your setup or graphics drivers. So you may have to uninstall everything (including Visual Studio) and start again.

        I build VTK using ninja and build vtk-examples using both ninja and the Visual Studio IDE with no problems.

      • Andrew Maclean
        Andrew Maclean @amaclean ·
        Developer

        Have you resolved this issue? If so please close it.

      • George Profenza
        George Profenza @orgicus ·
        Author

        Hi Andrew,

        I've build VTK as release (both the library and vtk-examples) and indeed I see some issues:

        Build started...
1>------ Build started: Project: RUN_TESTS, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>Test project C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build_with_examples
1>      Start  1: VTKExample-AMR/Cxx
1> 1/18 Test  #1: VTKExample-AMR/Cxx ..........................   Passed   19.57 sec
1>      Start  2: VTKExample-Annotation/Cxx/LabeledMesh
1> 2/18 Test  #2: VTKExample-Annotation/Cxx/LabeledMesh .......   Passed   13.89 sec
1>      Start  3: VTKExample-Build/vtkMy
1> 3/18 Test  #3: VTKExample-Build/vtkMy ......................   Passed   38.24 sec
1>      Start  4: VTKExample-Charts/Cxx
1> 4/18 Test  #4: VTKExample-Charts/Cxx .......................   Passed   18.39 sec
1>      Start  5: VTKExample-DataManipulation/Cxx
1> 5/18 Test  #5: VTKExample-DataManipulation/Cxx .............   Passed   23.59 sec
1>      Start  6: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/FourPaneViewer
1> 6/18 Test  #6: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/FourPaneViewer ............***Skipped  10.77 sec
1>      Start  7: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/ImageViewer
1> 7/18 Test  #7: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/ImageViewer ...............***Skipped  11.16 sec
1>      Start  8: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/SimpleView
1> 8/18 Test  #8: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/SimpleView ................***Skipped  13.16 sec
1>      Start  9: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/TouchGestureViewer
1> 9/18 Test  #9: VTKExample-GUI/Qt/TouchGestureViewer ........***Skipped  11.57 sec
1>      Start 10: VTKExample-IO/Cxx
1>10/18 Test #10: VTKExample-IO/Cxx ...........................***Failed   26.19 sec
1>      Start 11: VTKExample-ImageProcessing/Cxx
1>11/18 Test #11: VTKExample-ImageProcessing/Cxx ..............***Failed   19.69 sec
1>      Start 12: VTKExample-Infovis/Cxx
1>12/18 Test #12: VTKExample-Infovis/Cxx ......................***Skipped   9.13 sec
1>      Start 13: VTKExample-Medical/Cxx
1>13/18 Test #13: VTKExample-Medical/Cxx ......................***Failed   71.61 sec
1>      Start 14: VTKExample-Modelling/Cxx
1>14/18 Test #14: VTKExample-Modelling/Cxx ....................***Failed   15.49 sec
1>      Start 15: VTKExample-MultiBlock/Cxx
1>15/18 Test #15: VTKExample-MultiBlock/Cxx ...................   Passed    8.68 sec
1>      Start 16: VTKExample-ParallelProcessing/Generic/Cxx
1>16/18 Test #16: VTKExample-ParallelProcessing/Generic/Cxx ...***Skipped   7.28 sec
1>      Start 17: VTKExample-Modules/UsingVTK
1>17/18 Test #17: VTKExample-Modules/UsingVTK .................***Failed    8.42 sec
1>      Start 18: VTKExample-Modules/Wrapping
1>18/18 Test #18: VTKExample-Modules/Wrapping .................***Skipped  11.25 sec
1>
1>72% tests passed, 5 tests failed out of 18
1>
1>Total Test time (real) = 338.30 sec
1>
1>The following tests did not run:
1>	  6 - VTKExample-GUI/Qt/FourPaneViewer (Skipped)
1>	  7 - VTKExample-GUI/Qt/ImageViewer (Skipped)
1>	  8 - VTKExample-GUI/Qt/SimpleView (Skipped)
1>	  9 - VTKExample-GUI/Qt/TouchGestureViewer (Skipped)
1>	 12 - VTKExample-Infovis/Cxx (Skipped)
1>	 16 - VTKExample-ParallelProcessing/Generic/Cxx (Skipped)
1>	 18 - VTKExample-Modules/Wrapping (Skipped)
1>
1>The following tests FAILED:
1>	 10 - VTKExample-IO/Cxx (Failed)
1>	 11 - VTKExample-ImageProcessing/Cxx (Failed)
1>	 13 - VTKExample-Medical/Cxx (Failed)
1>	 14 - VTKExample-Modelling/Cxx (Failed)
1>	 17 - VTKExample-Modules/UsingVTK (Failed)
1>Errors while running CTest
1>Output from these tests are in: C:/dev/vtk/VTK-9.0.1/build_with_examples/Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log
1>Use "--rerun-failed --output-on-failure" to re-run the failed cases verbosely.
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: The command "setlocal
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\ctest.exe" --force-new-ctest-process -C Debug
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: :cmEnd
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: endlocal & call :cmErrorLevel %errorlevel% & goto :cmDone
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: :cmErrorLevel
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: exit /b %1
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: :cmDone
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :VCEnd
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(155,5): error MSB3073: :VCEnd" exited with code 8.
1>Done building project "RUN_TESTS.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

        Unfortunately reinstalling VS and the OpenGL Drivers isn't an option. I'll try a fresh clone and double check the VTK library process step by step and ensure the tests run before building the vtk-examples repo separately.

        I've tried install ninja and using that but ran into separate issues:

        The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.29.30040.0
The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.29.30040.0
Detecting C compiler ABI info
Detecting C compiler ABI info - failed
Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30037/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30037/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - broken
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:66 (message):
  The C compiler

    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30037/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"

  is not able to compile a simple test program.

  It fails with the following output:

    Change Dir: C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean-ninja/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
    
    Run Build Command(s):C:/dev/scripts/ninja.exe cmTC_23528 && [1/2] Building C object CMakeFiles\cmTC_23528.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj

    [2/2] Linking C executable cmTC_23528.exe

    FAILED: cmTC_23528.exe 

    cmd.exe /C "cd . && "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -E vs_link_exe --intdir=CMakeFiles\cmTC_23528.dir --rc=rc --mt=CMAKE_MT-NOTFOUND --manifests  -- C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~2\2019\PROFES~1\VC\Tools\MSVC\1429~1.300\bin\Hostx64\x64\link.exe /nologo CMakeFiles\cmTC_23528.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj  /out:cmTC_23528.exe /implib:cmTC_23528.lib /pdb:cmTC_23528.pdb /version:0.0 /machine:x64  /debug /INCREMENTAL /subsystem:console  kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib && cd ."

    RC Pass 1: command "rc /fo CMakeFiles\cmTC_23528.dir/manifest.res CMakeFiles\cmTC_23528.dir/manifest.rc" failed (exit code 0) with the following output:
    The system cannot find the file specified

    ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

    
    

  

  CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)


Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean-ninja/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/dev/vtk/vtk-examples/build-amaclean-ninja/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".`

        I may need to pause this rabbit hole for now and come back later. :rabbit2: Happy to close it for now and will reopen later as time permits (hopefully with a solution).

        Thank you so much, George

        Edited by George Profenza
      • George Profenza closed

        closed

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