Building VTK from Source with Modules

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I’m trying to build VTK from the source on Windows with three modules enabled. I got the source from here and I’m enabling VTK::RenderingOpenGL2, VTK::RenderingOpenVR, and VTK::RenderingOpenXR.

The building process I followed used these commands:

cmake -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingOpenGL2=WANT -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingOpenVR=WANT -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingOpenXR=WANT -DOpenVR_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH='...' -DOpenVR_LIBRARY:FILEPATH='...' -DOpenVR_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH='...' -DOpenVR_LIBRARY:FILEPATH='...' -S . -B build

This configures the project and after this, I simply run:

cmake --build build

After about 40 or so minutes, the build completes, however, inside build\lib\Debug I don’t see any library from either of these modules. For example, for OpenGL, I was expecting vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2-9.3d.lib.

What is the problem here?

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Are you building on Windows ?

Does ... Works on windows ?

Please share the complete compilation output.

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I’m building on Windows. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I put the correct paths in the real command. Here, I have placed ... for convenience. Compilation works successfully, however, .lib files for OpenGL, OpenVR, and OpenXR are not generated under the lib folder inside the build folder.

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Please share the recursive content of lib and bin directory.

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lib tree: lib tree - Pastebin.com
bin tree: bin tree - Pastebin.com

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Looks fine on my own build.

Please start from scratch and share the output of the cmake configuration of VTK.

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Here is the log of configuring the build with CMake: configlog.txt - Pastebin.com

I built it again after this and the same issue is happening.

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try with -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingOpenGL2=YES ?

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Same issue. What could be causing the build to not generate libraries for OpenGL, OpenVR, and OpenXR even though the configuration happens correctly (I believe according to the logs I shared)?

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I’m afraid I have no idea. It is working well here. Maybe try with ninja instead of visual studio ?

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Using the Ninja generator is definitely recommended. You can also debug the module system with -DVTK_DEBUG_MODULE=ON -DVTK_DEBUG_MODULE_ALL=ON.

Note that the VS build may have a slight non-standard layout in the build tree. However, I see their -hierarchy.txt files, so they are enabled. Did the build complete successfully? It seems that there’s probably a build failure somewhere.