It depends on how you are building your plugin. I use externally built
libraries all the time. 2 Things to remember here:
1: Compile time Includes - you will need to make sure that
include_directories(.. ) are called for each directory that needs to be
included. The "ITK_USE_FILE" should be setting those includes I believe.
2: Link time libraries - you will need a list of all the external
libraries that also need to be linked to your plugin. If you are
creating a new reader/writer/filter then that means setting the
SET (PARAVIEW_ADDITIONAL_LIBRARIES
${PARAVIEW_ADDITIONAL_LIBRARIES}
${BOOST_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY}
${HDF_LIBRARY}
)
variable like show above.
That should get you started.
Mike
Biao She wrote:
Thanks for your help, Michael Jackson! I am a big fan of you. :-)
The problem was in my CMakeLists.txt file. Because I use ITK libraries in my
class, I include
FIND_PACKAGE(ITK REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
in my CMakeList file.
After I delete those code in my CMakeList file, everything worked fine.
However, if I included those code in the CMakeList file, even if I didn't
have anything related to ITK in my .cxx file, I still get the same errors as
above mentioned.
Did that suggest ParaView Plug-in can't use external libraries (i.e. ITK)?
If not, how can I use ITK libraries in a ParaView Plug-in?
Thanks.
Biao
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Michael Jackson <[email protected]
wrote:
Are you including the paths to the DICOMParser and DICOMAppHelper header
files? Can you do a "make VERBOSE=1" to see the entire compile command?
Maybe it is not getting included properly for some reason.
_________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson [email protected]
BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Biao She wrote:
Yes, I have done that in my .cxx file, but it doesn't work...
I also found a strange phenomenon. When I include the header files for
DICOMParser and DICOMAppHelper in the header file of my class, I got an
error said "it can't find those header files".
I am wondering if this is related to the paraview plug-in CMake file. I
use the following code in the CMake file to link the paraview (vtk) library:
FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
Maybe this isn't enough to link the DICOMParser and DICOMAppHelper in
paraview?
Thanks,
Biao
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Michael Jackson <
[email protected]> wrote:
In your .cxx file add #include "vtkDICOMImageReaderVector.h" and the other
classes that are just forward declared in the header file.
_________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson [email protected]
BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Biao She wrote:
Hi everyone. This might be a silly question, but I am really confused.
I am writing a class inherites from vtkDICOMImageReader. In the header
file of vtkDICOMImageReader class, there are some forward declaration of
these classes: vtkDICOMImageReaderVector, DICOMParser and DICOMAppHelper.
The definition of these classes are included in the .cxx file. Normally, I
should be able to use the methods in those classes in my class. However, I
found that whenever I want to use something like
"this->Parser->ClearAllDICOMTagCallbacks()" in my class. The compiler gives
me back an error says that "invalid use of undefined type 'structure
DICOMParser". In the above, "Parser" is an instance of DICOMParser. The same
situation also happen to DICOMAppHelper and vtkDICOMImageReaderVector.
Thanks very much for any of your help.
Biao
--
She, Biao
Department of Computing Science,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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