Problem with Building ITK with Module_ItkVtkGlue = ON

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Hi All,

I got a problem when building ITK in release (version 5.10 in github: https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK) with setting Module_ItkVtkGlue = ON. Actually I set VTK_DIR points to the my latest installed VTK release at: /usr/local/lib/cmake/vtk-8.90/. But when I compile the ITK source, the compiler thew an error:

In file included from /home/phongtd/workingspace/ITK/build/Wrapping/itkImageToVTKImageFilter.cxx:16:
/home/phongtd/workingspace/ITK/Modules/Bridge/VtkGlue/include/itkImageToVTKImageFilter.h:22:10: fatal error: 'vtkImageImport.h' file not found
#include "vtkImageImport.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
Wrapping/Modules/ITKVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ITKVtkGlueCastXML.dir/build.make:64: recipe for target 'Wrapping/itkImageToVTKImageFilter.xml' failed
make[2]: *** [Wrapping/itkImageToVTKImageFilter.xml] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 29%] Generating ../../../itkPyCommand.xml
In file included from /home/phongtd/workingspace/ITK/build/Wrapping/itkVTKImageToImageFilter.cxx:16:
/home/phongtd/workingspace/ITK/Modules/Bridge/VtkGlue/include/itkVTKImageToImageFilter.h:23:10: fatal error: 'vtkImageExport.h' file not found
#include "vtkImageExport.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
Wrapping/Modules/ITKVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ITKVtkGlueCastXML.dir/build.make:70: recipe for target 'Wrapping/itkVTKImageToImageFilter.xml' failed
make[2]: *** [Wrapping/itkVTKImageToImageFilter.xml] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:51906: recipe for target 'Wrapping/Modules/ITKVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ITKVtkGlueCastXML.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [Wrapping/Modules/ITKVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ITKVtkGlueCastXML.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 29%] Generating ../../../itkPyImageFilter.xml
[ 29%] Built target ITKPyUtilsCastXML
Makefile:162: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I although I cann see that file in : /usr/local/include/vtk-8.90/vtkImageImport.h. I guess ITK CMakeLists.txt did not include $VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS.

I tried to search on google and found the similar link: http://itk-users.7.n7.nabble.com/Problem-with-Building-ITK-with-Module-ItkVtkGlue-ON-td30777.html. But that was not a complete answer. Can anyone help me on this ?

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I am getting the same error and see that some of the include flags are not included.

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Including the VTK include directory in /ITKVtkGlue.castxml.inc seems to make progress. Now to find where this file is generated from.

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This segment shows that the include directories are set only if the VTK version is 6.0.0 or less:
if( ${VTK_VERSION} VERSION_LESS 6.0.0 )
set(ITKVtkGlue_VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS ${VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS})
set(ITKVtkGlue_VTK_LIBRARIES ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

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I have the same problem, using the officially released versions VTK 9.0.0 and ITK 5.0.1. Indeed, when building the python wrapper, I don’t see the VTK_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY being considered.

The comment from melrobin (I think) is not complete: For versions later than 6.0.0, there is an ELSE() branch in CMakeLists in which exported targets seem to be considered. Nevertheless, there is a problem with VTK 8.90 and higher. Where can I start looking for a fix?

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Possible source is VTKGlue remote module. I don’t know whether it is the best. @matt.mccormick might have further suggestions or advice.

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If building ITK Python from source, please try the functions, 'itk.vtk_image_from_imageanditk._image_from_vtk_image`. These do not require building against a specific version of VTK Python. These will be included in the ITK 5.2.0 release.

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Thanks - well, but how can I build ITK with python wrapping and with VTKGlue correctly then? I would like the C++ VTK glue to be built (for corresponding glue in C++), but also the python wrapper for scripting. It seems that this is not possible due to the compilation error? What would I need to do with ITK 5.0.1 (or 5.1.rc3) to have ITK compile correctly with VTK 9.0.0 with (C+±)VTKGlue plus Python wrapping?

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VTK 9.0.0 has issues with its Python wrapping and build configuration. It is recommended to use the ITKVTKGlue bridge for C++ bridge, but the referenced methods for Python.