vxl fails to build on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

[andreas.schuh.84@…]

:info:build /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -f core/vbl/tests/CMakeFiles/vbl_test_all.dir/build.make core/vbl/tests/CMakeFiles/vbl_test_all.dir/depend
:info:build In file included from /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core/vul/vul_psfile.cxx:2:
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core/vul/vul_psfile.h:40:28: error: cannot cast from type 'std::ofstream' (aka 'basic_ofstream<char>') to pointer type 'void *'
:info:build   operator bool() { return (void*)output_filestream!=(void*)0; }
:info:build                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When I change this line to

// or should this be !output_filestream.bad() && !output_filestream.fail() ?
return output_filestream.good()

it continues past this point but then I get the following error:

 cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core/vbl/io/tests && /usr/bin/clang++   -DVXL_LEGACY_ERROR_REPORTING -DVXL_WARN_DEPRECATED -DVXL_WARN_DEPRECATED_ONCE -pipe -Os -Werror=gnu -Wno-error=vla -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64   -DNDEBUG -arch x86_64 -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/vcl -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core    -o CMakeFiles/vbl_io_test_all.dir/test_smart_ptr_io.o -c /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core/vbl/io/tests/test_smart_ptr_io.cxx
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_vxl/vxl/work/vxl-1.17.0/core/vil/file_formats/vil_openjpeg.cxx:107:3: error: unknown type name 'opj_codec_t'; did you mean 'opj_poc_t'?
:info:build   opj_codec_t *codec_;
:info:build   ^~~~~~~~~~~

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Could you please ​report this problem to the developers of vxl so that they can fix it?

[andreas.schuh.84@…]

I sent an email to the vxl-users list as they don't seem to use an issue tracker like Trac.

[andreas.schuh.84@…]

For documentation, I managed to solve the openjpeg2 related 'unknown type name 'opj_codec_t' error as follows:

• Set VXL_FORCE_V3P_OPENJPEG2 to ON
• Add the following to core/vil/CMakeLists.txt around line 133 after all dependencies were looked for. Required because the more recent (incompatible) OpenJPEG2 header files were in the same MacPorts installation directory as other dependencies.

IF(NOT VXL_USING_NATIVE_OPENJPEG2)
  INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(BEFORE ${OPENJPEG2_INCLUDE_DIR})
ENDIF()

[ChristianFrisson (Christian Frisson)]

Hi,

I could manage to make it work on OSX 10.9.2, attached are the modified Portfile and 3 diffs.

It uses a newer git revision from ​https://github.com/vxl/vxl rather than the release.

As mentioned in ticket #42872, using PortGroup cmake 1.0 in the Porfile has CMake automatically fed with too many (too early) includes of $prefix/include, what prevents the compilation of vxl against an internal openjpeg 2.x. This is an issue if for instance ffmpeg is installed, which currently depends on openjpeg15 which gets precedence in the included directories order, even if cmake command include_directories(BEFORE ...) is used as proposed by Andreas above. Adding

configure.cflags-delete ${configure.cppflags}
configure.cxxflags-delete ${configure.cppflags}

didn't work for me, so I uglily pasted the contents of ${prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/cmake-1.0.tcl, commenting out the configure.cppflags appends.

I'm not sure the cmake files are installed in the proper directory which is currently ${prefix}/share/vxl/cmake. For instance OpenCV doesn't have the trailing cmake subdir.

Best regards, Christian.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

​Per the guidelines, please instead attach a unified diff of the Portfile so we can easily see what changes you are proposing.

[ChristianFrisson (Christian Frisson)]

Cc Me!

[ChristianFrisson (Christian Frisson)]

Hi,

I've just attached the unified diff of the Portfile.

Best regards, Christian

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Cc Me!

[rfabbri@…]

Cc Me!

[rfabbri@…]

Replying to andreas.schuh.84@…:

IF(NOT VXL_USING_NATIVE_OPENJPEG2)
  INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(BEFORE ${OPENJPEG2_INCLUDE_DIR})
ENDIF()

I have VXL privileges to commit that change. And it solves my problem. Do you think I should just go ahead?

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

The issue is the cmake PortGroup has been fixed. How does that affect vxl?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #44539.

[andreas.schuh.84@…]

Fix FFMPEG API calls, requires FFMPEG >= lavf 53.25.0 / 53.17.0

[andreas.schuh.84@…]

After running into this issue again after update to OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I stumbled upon this/my previous issue report. Applying the Portfile patch provided by Christian was unfortunately not sufficient due to some more FFMPEG API changes. I attached an updated FFMPEG support patch for VXL. After replacing Christian's patch by this file (i.e. "cp ~/Downloads/patch-fix-ffmpeg-support.2.diff​ $(port dir vxl)/files/patch-fix-ffmpeg-support.diff​"), the build of VXL succeeded using his patched Portfile. Thanks, Andreas.