[ome-users] Building Bio-formats plugin for ITK in VC++

[Mark Hiner]

On windows there's a boolean CMake option to toggle Debug and Release
builds:

BFITK_WIN_BUILD_DEBUG

It's set to "ON" by default, which means the Debug build will be built. If
you actually want the Debug version then you need to build the Debug build
in VC++ 2010 as well. I think VC++ 2010 defaults to "Release", so you
probably have a "D:/Bioformats_itk/lib/\Release/BioFormatsIOPlugin" right?

So you can either reconfigure CMake to set that option OFF and build
Release, or build the Debug version.

Also, the main branch on the ITK source from git doesn't have
itkSCIFIOImageIO yet, but it is on a review branch.

You can check out that branch using the command:

git fetch http://review.source.kitware.com/p/ITK refs/changes/50/9450/7 &&
git checkout FETCH_HEAD -b SCIFIOImageIO


The "refs/changes/50/9450/7" is specifying which patch to check out, e.g.
refs/changes/50/9450/4 would check out patch set 4. But I think we got 7
pretty stable yesterday so I would try that first. :) Otherwise, 8 should
be out in a few hours (with very minor changes).

Let me know if you have any more problems!

Thanks,
Mark




On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Jayachandra DAKALA (NYP) <
Jayachandra_DAKALA at nyp.gov.sg> wrote:

> Mark,****
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> Thanks for the help.****
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> Commenting the line set(BF_SUFFIX ".dll") helped. ****
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> Now, I am left with the following error. ****
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> Error copying file "D:/Bioformats_itk/lib/\Debug/BioFormatsIOPlugin" to
> "D:/Bioformats_itk/dist/bf-itk/BioFormatsIOPlugin".****
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> This may be related to BF_LIB_DIR and BF_BUILD_TYPE. I am unable to
> figure it out. Any suggestions?****
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> Does the latest ITK source code (from git repo) has itkSCIFIOImageIO?****
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> Best regards,****
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> D. Jayachandra****
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> *From:* Mark Hiner [mailto:hinerm at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 May, 2013 9:40 PM
> *To:* Jayachandra DAKALA (NYP)
> *Cc:* ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [ome-users] Building Bio-formats plugin for ITK in VC++****
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> Hello,****
>
>  In CMake did you turn the "Build shared libraries" flag on? Off the top
> of my head, you might try toggling that.. I'm assuming if it's off it will
> build a .lib instead?****
>
>  It looks like the .dll extension is hard coded on Windows<https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/native/bf-itk/CMakeLists.txt#L202>,
> so you could try changing that line to make it a .lib instead.****
>
>  In any case it looks like a bug because the target_link_libraries
> commands should be specifying a .lib always, I believe.****
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>  We're actually restructuring the BF-ITK integration right now by
> packaging the ImageIO with ITK (it's now called the itkSCIFIOImageIO).
> Since it's just part of the ITK framework now, a lot of these build issues
> should disappear.****
>
>  It's still in review status but you may have more luck with it. Also, we
> won't be supporting the old BF-ITK code.. so if there is a bug blocking
> your work, its fix will go into the new code.****
>
>  You can follow the new work here:
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/9450/****
>
>  That page has links for downloading the patch sets. Patch set 3 was
> stable but has several bugs (like not supporting RGB datasets). Patch set 6
> has significant improvements but is still failing some tests.****
>
>  Hopefully a patch 7 will be out this week fixing any remaining issues.***
> *
>
>  Let me know if changing the file extension and/or downloading the new
> patches doesn't work for you.
>
> thanks,
> Mark****
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> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Jayachandra DAKALA (NYP) <
> Jayachandra_DAKALA at nyp.gov.sg> wrote:****
>
> Hi, ****
>
> I am trying to build Bio-formats plugin for ITK. I am using VC++ 2010.
> When try to build, I am getting the following linking error. "LINK : fatal
> error LNK1104: cannot open file 'Debug\BioFormatsIO.lib'".  When I checked
> the directory, I could only find BioFormatsIO.dll, but there is no
> BioFormatsIO.lib file. Please help me. Should I need to change any project
> settings so that it will export .lib files? ****
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> Many thanks in advance, ****
>
> Best regards,****
>
> D. Jayachandra****
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