Dockerfile not building vrs CLI?

[Andrew12Liu]

Hi Aria team,

I was running the dockerfile to build aria-data-tools. I noticed that the build directory did not build the VRS CLI. More specifically, I noticed the build subdirectory for vrs under the third-party directory was missing the tools build directory associated with the CLI from my understanding. My logic could be wrong so would appreciate any help on this. Thank you!

[Andrew12Liu]

For more context, I ran
cmake -S <path_to_vrs_folder> -B <path_to_build_folder> '-GCodeBlocks - Ninja'
from following this https://github.com/facebookresearch/vrs on the vrs subrepository to a new build folder just for vrs and it correctly built the vrs CLI.

[SeaOtocinclus]

Hello @Andrew12Liu we recently changed the way dependencies are managed and now VRS is used directly as a module, not a precompiled library (as a consequence, we are not building by default the tools).

If you are in the docker aria-data-tools you can build the binary by triggering make -j vrs from the aria_data_tools build folder.

Comment line 32/33 here https://github.com/facebookresearch/Aria_data_tools/blob/main/src/CMakeLists.txt#L32
and remove the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL

Then run cmake and make -j vrs

git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/Aria_data_tools.git
cd Aria_data_tools/
git submodule init
git submodule update
podman build . -f Dockerfile -t aria_data_tools_ubuntu
podman run -it aria_data_tools_ubuntu /bin/bash

=> Edit the CMakeLists as shared above
apt-get install nano
nano /opt/aria_data_tools/src/CMakeLists.txt

cd /opt/aria_data_tools_Build/
rm -rf ./*
cmake ../aria_data_tools/src/
make -j vrs

...
Scanning dependencies of target vrs
[100%] Building CXX object third_party/vrs/tools/vrs/CMakeFiles/vrs.dir/VrsCommand.cpp.o
[100%] Building CXX object third_party/vrs/tools/vrs/CMakeFiles/vrs.dir/vrs.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX executable vrs

root@8d01e916ea7b:/opt/aria_data_tools_Build# ./third_party/vrs/tools/vrs/vrs 
Get details about a VRS files:
  vrs [ file.vrs ] [filter-options]

All the other commands have the following format:
...

[Andrew12Liu]

thanks for the rapid response time @SeaOtocinclus , presumably if i want my docker image to have the vrs tools, ill just add

cmake ../aria_data_tools/src/
make -j vrs

to the dockerfile

[SeaOtocinclus]

Thank you for your feedback, feel free to contribute its addition back to the repository ;-)

[Andrew12Liu]

@SeaOtocinclus thanks for the help, that seemed to do the trick, all i had to do was make install it afterwards. happy to add this in a PR, I currently have it in a fork's PR.

[SeaOtocinclus]

Great, happy to see we were able to found a quick solution!

[SeaOtocinclus]

Do you want to close the issue, or keep it open until we have VRS compiled in the docker image?

[Andrew12Liu]

@SeaOtocinclus im okay with closing it, as we found the resolution. I am indifferent on having VRS compiled in the docker image. Perhaps other users may not need it. Adding a note in the build readme or documentation could clarify for future users.