Recipe for VTK

[paulharris]

Specify library name and version: vtk/9.1.0

I'm putting this up for comments and further discussion.
It is getting there, but still needs some work.
Please help.

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[paulharris]

Please check and respond here, and/or, slack me to discuss,
I need some help to make this battle station fully operational.

[paulharris]

Note: I keep a list of known TODOs at the top of the conanfile.py

[paulharris]

I have hook warnings/errors related to extra .cmake files left from the cmake build+install.
I would appreciate some advice on what I should be doing about that.
eg it wasn't happy it found ./lib/cmake/vtk/vtk-config.cmake
which is weird because I thought that was the file I was generating?
I'm not understanding something here.,,

[paulharris]

I still have some things to do, would like to autogenerate the component list and dependencies etc.

[paulharris]

Seems to fail due to old CMake 3.18 on the CI.

VTK has patches to support older CMake up to 3.22,
I was hoping to avoid needing them ...
I suppose I can make cmake 3.23 a build requirement...

[SSE4]

Seems to fail due to old CMake 3.18 on the CI.

VTK has patches to support older CMake up to 3.22, I was hoping to avoid needing them ... I suppose I can make cmake 3.23 a build requirement...

that's not a problem - you always may add more recent CMake to build_requirements

[paulharris]

I am now thinking that I should use Kitware/VTK's bundled third party dependencies, even if the same (or more recent) version is available on conan as a package.

VTK has a lot of cmake magic to bring in their bundled dependencies, and is careful they do not clash with the same library if brought in independently.

Some of their dependencies are heavily patched, but it is not immediately obvious which ones they are, nor can I tell if a newer version of the same library might cause a problem with a VTK release.

So instead, just go with VTK's defaults and use their bundled externals.
ie VTK_USE_EXTERNAL = True and don't set a lot of requirements.

Thoughts?

[paulharris]

I'm pretty happy with this recipe now, looking for feedback.
There are some patches that we use on the recipe, that we are pushing upstream.

[conan-center-bot]

Conan v1 pipeline ❌

Failure in build 4 (50d0a8bade38aec43e9b36bcd3f7907214a252ba):

• vtk/9.3.0:
  Error running command conan export recipes/vtk/all/conanfile.py vtk/9.3.0@:

  WARN: *** Conan 1 is legacy and on a deprecation path ***
  WARN: *** Please upgrade to Conan 2 ***
  ERROR: Error loading conanfile at '/home/conan/workspace/prod-v1_cci_PR-10776/recipes/vtk/all/conanfile.py': : Error in init() method, line 317
  	self._override_options_values(extra_defaults)
  while calling '_override_options_values', line 195
  	self.options.update(overridden, new_values)
  	TypeError: update expected at most 1 arguments, got 2
  

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[Croydon]

This only takes one argument that is a dict

[paulharris]

If you mean self.options.update(),
the signature is conans/model/options.py:345 :
def update(self, options=None, options_values=None):

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