This builds and appears to run with vtk 9.

At least, it doesn't crash when a graphics window is opened and
a simple skeleton can be drawn and rotated.

This version doesn't work with vtk8.  Some conditional code is
needed to check the vtk version in common/DIR.py.

Author: snarkhunter

SRC/common/DIR.py

@@ -79,29 +79,48 @@ def set_clib_flags(clib):
     if HAVE_MPI:
         clib.externalLibs.append('pmpich++')
         clib.externalLibs.append('mpich')
-    addVTKlibs(clib, ['vtkCommonCore',
-                      'vtkCommonDataModel',
-                      'vtkCommonExecutionModel',
-                      'vtkCommonMisc',
-                      'vtkCommonTransforms',
-                      'vtkFiltersCore',
-                      'vtkFiltersExtraction',
-                      'vtkFiltersGeneral',
-                      'vtkFiltersModeling',
-                      'vtkFiltersSources',
-                      'vtkIOExport',
-                      'vtkIOExportPDF',
-                      # 'vtkIOExportOpenGL2',  # Not available in VTK 9
-                      'vtkIOImage',
-                      'vtkIOXML',
-                      'vtkImagingCore',
-                      'vtkImagingColor',
-                      'vtkImagingGeneral',
-                      'vtkRenderingAnnotation',
-                      'vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2',
-                      'vtkRenderingCore',
-                      'vtkRenderingFreeType',
-                      'vtkRenderingOpenGL2',
-                      'vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2',
-                      'vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2'])
+    addVTKlibs(clib, [
+        ## TODO: This needs to work for both vtk8 and vtk9
+        ## libs for vtk9
+        ## libs from the #defines created by FindNeededModules
+        'vtkIOExportPDF',
+        'vtkIOExportGL2PS',
+        #'vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2', # doesn't exist
+        'vtkInteractionStyle',
+        'vtkRenderingFreeType',
+        'vtkRenderingOpenGL2',
+        'vtkRenderingUI',
+        'vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2',
+        'vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2',
+        ## Added due to 'undefined symbol' messages at run time
+        'vtkFiltersExtraction',
+        'vtkRenderingAnnotation',
+        
+        ## Libs included w/ vtk8
+        # 'vtkCommonCore',
+        # 'vtkCommonDataModel',
+        # 'vtkCommonExecutionModel',
+        # 'vtkCommonMisc',
+        # 'vtkCommonTransforms',
+        # 'vtkFiltersCore',
+        # 'vtkFiltersExtraction',
+        # 'vtkFiltersGeneral',
+        # 'vtkFiltersModeling',
+        # 'vtkFiltersSources',
+        # 'vtkIOExport',
+        # 'vtkIOExportPDF',
+        # 'vtkIOExportOpenGL2',
+        # 'vtkIOImage',
+        # 'vtkIOXML',
+        # 'vtkImagingCore',
+        # 'vtkImagingColor',
+        # 'vtkImagingGeneral',
+        # 'vtkRenderingAnnotation',
+        # 'vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2',
+        # 'vtkRenderingCore',
+        # 'vtkRenderingFreeType',
+        # 'vtkRenderingOpenGL2',
+        # 'vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2',
+        # 'vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2'
+    ])
 

SRC/common/IO/vtkutils.C

@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
 
 // (3) Create dummy.cxx in the same directory as CMakeLists.txt.  I
 // just wrote hello world.  I don't know if it has to actually use
-// vtk.
+// vtk.  Adding a few lines of trivial vtk calls didn't change the
+// results.
 
 // (4) Create a build directory in the directory.  cd to it and run
 // "cmake ..".
@@ -66,19 +67,31 @@
 // bunch of #defines.  Include the #defines in this file, followed by
 // #include <vtkAutoInit.h>.
 
+// (6) For each of the #defines from FindNeededModules, add the
+// corresponding library to the list in set_clib_flags in
+// SRC/common/DIR.py.  Some of the #define don't have a corresponding
+// library.
 
-// Found by grepping all "#include <vtk*>" lines from all OOF3D files,
-// putting hthem in vtkincludes.h, and running FindNeededModules on
-// that.
+// (7) Run the program. If there are "undefined symbol" messages, use
+// nm to find the symbols in the vtk libraries and add the libraries
+// to the list in DIR.py.
+
+// (8) Hope that that all worked.
+
+
+// #defines found by grepping all "#include <vtk*>" lines from all
+// OOF3D files, putting them in vtkincludes.h, and running
+// FindNeededModules on that.
 #define vtkIOExport_AUTOINIT 1(vtkIOExportPDF)
 #define vtkIOExportGL2PS_AUTOINIT 1(vtkIOExportGL2PS)
 #define vtkRenderingContext2D_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2)
 #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingOpenGL2,vtkRenderingUI)
 #define vtkRenderingOpenGL2_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2)
 #define vtkRenderingVolume_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2)
 
-// Found by copying all OOF3D .C and .h files to FLAT, renaming .C to
-// .cxx, and running FindNeededModules.py on FLAT.
+// #defines found by copying all OOF3D .C and .h files to FLAT,
+// renaming FLAT/*.C to FLAT/*.cxx, and running FindNeededModules.py
+// on FLAT.
 
 // #define vtkIOExportGL2PS_AUTOINIT 1(vtkIOExportGL2PS)
 // #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingOpenGL2,vtkRenderingUI)