PCL 1.9 fails to detect installed VTK (v8.9)

[Zhongwei-Luo]

I have install vtk ,and pcl found it , but it said it consider vtk to be not found

Your Environment

• Operating System and version:ubuntu 18.04
• Compiler: gcc 7.4
• PCL Version: 1.9

Context

trying to install the PCL1.9 in my computer

Expected Behavior

Current Behavior

Code to Reproduce

CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:421 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:

/usr/local/lib/cmake/vtk-8.90/vtk-config.cmake

but it set VTK_FOUND to FALSE so package "VTK" is considered to be NOT
FOUND. Reason given by package:

Could not find the VTK package with the following required components:
RenderingContextOpenGL.

-- VTK_MAJOR_VERSION 8, rendering backend: OpenGL
CMake Deprecation Warning at /usr/local/lib/cmake/vtk-8.90/vtk-use-file-deprecated.cmake:1 (message):
The VTK_USE_FILE is no longer used starting with 8.90.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:426 (include)

-- VTK found (include: , libs:
-- Could NOT find PCAP (missing: PCAP_LIBRARIES PCAP_INCLUDE_DIRS)
-- Boost version: 1.65.1
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- filesystem
-- date_time
-- iostreams
-- system
-- regex
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so
-- Found GLEW: /usr/include
-- DOXYGEN_FOUND
-- HTML_HELP_COMPILER
-- Found CPack generators: DEB
-- The following subsystems will be built:
-- common
-- kdtree
-- octree
-- search
-- sample_consensus
-- filters
-- 2d
-- geometry
-- io
-- features
-- ml
-- segmentation
-- surface
-- registration
-- keypoints
-- tracking
-- recognition
-- stereo
-- tools
-- The following subsystems will not be built:
-- visualization: VTK was not found.
-- apps: No reason
-- outofcore: Disabled manually.
-- examples: Code examples are disabled by default.
-- people: Disabled manually.
-- simulation: Disabled by default.
-- global_tests: No reason
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/lzw/for_dev_software/pcl-master/build

Possible Solution

[jasjuang]

I agree this bug has to be solved at some point but I know that it works with VTK 8.2. If you don't mind using an older VTK you can temporarily workaround this problem.

[Zhongwei-Luo]

thanks～

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[rimmartin]

same issue with PCL Version: 1.10

[rimmartin]

VTK git HEAD has the module RenderingContextOpenGL2 where
pcl git HEAD is looking for RenderingContextOpenGL by default

Looking in CMakeLists.txt https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/#L410 the default for VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND is OpenGL if it is undefined.

So on the cmake command line adding -DVTK_RENDERING_BACKEND=OpenGL2 changes the default and pcl HEAD with VTK HEAD gets to the compile stage.

no successful compile yet but that's a different issue

[rimmartin]

This has been discussed in other issues
#1234
#1534
Perhaps a heads up in https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl#compiling section would help new users.

[taketwo]

Probably related: #3637

[rimmartin]

got pcl HEAD with VTK HEAD to compile successfully.

Needed to consider https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCellArray.html#details VTK_CELL_ARRAY_V2 numerous places. vtkShaderProgram2 doesn't exist in VTK HEAD but vtkShaderProgram does.

I see other pull requests; I'll keep an eye and if this isn't building for others I'll then fork and make a pull request.

Working on usage and testing if visuals work

[larshg]

Close this as PCL 1.9 only support up to 8.1/8.2 maybe?

Work is in progress to support vtk 9.0, but that will be from PCL 1.12?

[kunaltyagi]

VTK 9.0 support: PCL 1.11.1 if possible, else 1.12

Also, before I close, does PCL >1.9 support VTK 8.9, that is, will moving to PCL 1.10 (or higher) resolve the issue?

[larshg]

VTK 8.9, is not an actual release. Only 8.2 was the latests before 9.0. So the answer is no.