3d slicer 5.6.1 vtk complie error

[xjjgjmeng]

I compiled 3D slicer (5.6.1), but vtk failed to compile successfully (vs2019, Qt5.15.2). It seems to be python related, and one of them reported an error:

16> Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkAbstractGridConnectivity
16> vtkWrapPython-9.2d.exe: In D:/gitrepos/Slicer/build/VTK/Filters/Geometry/vtkAbstractGridConnectivity.h:1: syntax error.
16>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(241,5): error MSB8066: “D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build \VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkAbstractGridConnectivityPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkAttributeSmoothingFilterPython.cxx .rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build \CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkCompositeDataGeometryFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkDataSetRegionSurfaceFilterPython.cxx .rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a \vtkDataSetSurfaceFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkExplicitStructuredGridSurfaceFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af1 1fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkGeometryFilterPython.cxx .rule; D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkHierarchicalDataSetGeometryFilterPython.cxx.rule; f076a\vtkImageDataGeometryFilterPython.cxx.rule;D :\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkImageDataToUniformGridPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vt kLinearToQuadraticCellsFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\ Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkMarkBoundaryFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkProjectSphereFilterPython .cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\ VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkRecoverGeometryWireframePython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkRectilinearGridGeometryFilter Python.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\ CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkRectilinearGridPartitionerPython.cxx.rule; ;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\ vtkStructuredAMRNeighborPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkStructuredGridConnectivityPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569 d29134735de9f076a\vtkStructuredGeometryFilterPython.cxx. rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkStructuredGridPartitionerPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a \vtkStructuredNeighborPython.cxx.rule;D: \gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkStructuredPointsGeometryFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\v tkUnstructuredGridGeometryFilterPython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer \build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\403ee1af11fe569d29134735de9f076a\vtkFiltersGeometryModulePython.cxx.rule;D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\CMakeFiles\91e9c2b522b46bd386e977bc61299a90\vtkFiltersG eometryPythonInit.cxx.rule" exited with code 1 . [D:\gitrepos\Slicer\build\VTK-build\vtkFiltersGeometryPython.vcxproj]

[xjjgjmeng]

@lassoan Do you know how to solve this? thank you.

[xjjgjmeng]

The error reported when compiling vtkCommonColorPython is as follows:

[jcfr]

Few questions:

• Do you have an issue building the Slicer main branch ?
• Did you modify the VTK sources in any way ?

[jcfr]

Unless the problem has been problem clearly identified¹, I suggest you post the question at https://discourse.slicer.org/

Once you have done so, considering commenting here with a link to the post so that we can close this issue 🙏

Footnotes

1. https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/get_help.html ↩

[xjjgjmeng]

Few questions:

• Do you have an issue building the Slicer main branch ?
• Did you modify the VTK sources in any way ?

I followed the steps below to compile:
1.git clone https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git
2.git checkout v5.6.1
3.cmake (no errors)
4. open project
5.do ALL_BUILD

I didn't modify any files, but after compiling I found that a py file was modified：

[xjjgjmeng]

I tried vs2022 again today, and the following error also occurred:

19:36:17:355	46>  Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkSlicerVolumesLogic
19:36:18:118	46>  vtkWrapPython-9.2d.exe: In D:/Slicer/Modules/Loadable/Volumes/Logic/vtkSlicerVolumesLogic.h:1: syntax error.
19:36:18:924	46>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(249,5): error MSB8066: “D:\Slicer\b\Slicer-build\CMakeFiles\c302bb999142b2ae1412943bd7cd9c5f\vtkSlicerVolumesModuleLogicPythonInit.cxx.rule;

[xjjgjmeng]

The following are the projects that failed to compile (they are all related to vtk python wrapper), and the others passed the compilation:
CTK
Experimental
ITK
SimpleITK
Slicer
SlicerExcutionModel
teem
VTK

[pieper]

“D:\Slicer\b\Slicer-build\CMakeFiles\c302bb999142b2ae1412943bd7cd9c5f\vtkSlicerVolumesModuleLogicPythonInit.cxx.rule;

Try a very short build path, like D:\sb

[xjjgjmeng]

“D:\Slicer\b\Slicer-build\CMakeFiles\c302bb999142b2ae1412943bd7cd9c5f\vtkSlicerVolumesModuleLogicPythonInit.cxx.rule;

Try a very short build path, like D:\sb

Now build path is D:\Slicer\b，too long?

[jcfr]

Thanks for your patience with this.

As hinted by @pieper, consider trying a very short path.

Using D:\Slicer\b may indeed be too long.

[xjjgjmeng]

I modified the build pathD:/b, but the problem still occurs：

The compilation result takes vtkCommonColor as an example:

vtkCommonColor-hierachy:

vtkCommonColorPython:

[xjjgjmeng]

https://discourse.slicer.org/t/3d-slicer-5-6-1-vtk-complie-error/34958

[jcfr]

Throughout your experiments, after opening the solution file of a specific project (e.g D:/b/VTK-build/VTK.sln), make also sure you select the build type matching the one used for the outer build (e.g Release vs Debug)

Assuming that after opening VTK.sln, it looks like you selected the matching build type and were able to narrow down the issue to failure in generating the wrappers (e.g Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkColorSeries failed).

The expected output should be similar to the following:

Rebuild started...
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: vtkCommonColorPython, Configuration: Release x64 ------
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkColorSeries
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkNamedColors
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkCommonColorModule
1>Generating the Python module initialization sources for vtkCommonColorPython
1>Building Custom Rule C:/D/T/jcfr/vpaw-rel/VTK/CMakeLists.txt
1>vtkColorSeriesPython.cxx
1>vtkNamedColorsPython.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorModulePython.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorPythonInit.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorPythonInitImpl.cxx
1>Generating Code...
...

[jcfr]

Let's now check if the issue has been addressed in the latest version of VTK.

Since the version of VTK built as part of Slicer is not the latest, this will help us understand if the root problem has already been fixed.

To move forward consider building VTK by cloning it from git, see https://docs.vtk.org/en/latest/build_instructions/build.html

[xjjgjmeng]

Throughout your experiments, after opening the solution file of a specific project (e.g D:/b/VTK-build/VTK.sln), make also sure you select the build type matching the one used for the outer build (e.g Release vs Debug)

Assuming that after opening VTK.sln, it looks like you selected the matching build type and were able to narrow down the issue to failure in generating the wrappers (e.g Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkColorSeries failed).

The expected output should be similar to the following:

Rebuild started...
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: vtkCommonColorPython, Configuration: Release x64 ------
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkColorSeries
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkNamedColors
1>Generating Python wrapper sources for vtkCommonColorModule
1>Generating the Python module initialization sources for vtkCommonColorPython
1>Building Custom Rule C:/D/T/jcfr/vpaw-rel/VTK/CMakeLists.txt
1>vtkColorSeriesPython.cxx
1>vtkNamedColorsPython.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorModulePython.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorPythonInit.cxx
1>vtkCommonColorPythonInitImpl.cxx
1>Generating Code...
...

I compiled it according to your suggestion and the result is as shown below:

[xjjgjmeng]

Another piece of information: I can compile and run and debug on another computer, but the same steps don't work on this computer.