How can I solve the error, Cannot build Rendering examples without VTK_SOURCE_DIR

xiaocaiji · February 19, 2021, 1:18pm

I tried to build the example “Rendering” in VTK8.2.0, and then I get the error:

In the CMakeLists, what I have seen is

ben.boeckel · February 19, 2021, 2:40pm

It seems that that example is currently untested. It will need porting to VTK 9 before it is useful as-is.

VTKExamples which probably has examples which are working better. See this post.

xiaocaiji · February 19, 2021, 2:55pm

Thank you so much, I’ll try your method

amaclean · February 20, 2021, 10:08pm

The examples in the VTK source files are unmaintained. The majority of the examples have been moved to vtk-examples.

For example, the examples you refer to (and many more) are found in the rendering section.

mwestphal · February 20, 2021, 10:51pm

They should be removed imo.

amaclean · February 20, 2021, 11:57pm

+1

I have added this script SelectExamples. You just specify a VTK Class and Language and it will give you a set of links to the relevant VTK examples. It uses a JSON file: vtk_vtk-examples_xref.json that is generated automatically when the VTK Examples are updated. It contains all the VTK examples grouped by VTK Class and Language, @sankhesh, when he has time, is also looking in to using this to provide links to the VTK examples from the VTK Documentation.

xiaocaiji · February 21, 2021, 4:09pm

Thank you so much!