No text in UI when running vv in WSL2 Ubuntu on Windows

[jmartens]

When running vv on my Windows 10 using Ubuntu and WSL2 I get the following screen without readable text.

When I navigate to the menu to exit this is the output in my command window:

# docker run -ti --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v /home/tbaudier:/home tbaudier/vv
bash-4.3# vv
libpng warning: iCCP: too many profiles
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (-0.750000), must be greater than 0
bash-4.3#`
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[jmartens]

Tried today using Docker since I needed the tool again, but same issues there. Any clues/pointers?

Judging from the error Point size calculation seems to go wrong.

[jwutsetro]

has this ever been resolved ? I am having the same issues ...

[tbaudier]

Unfortunately we do not have time to support vv for Windows

[jwutsetro]

Ah, I am not running it on windows but on newest version of Mac OS ( Sonoma) . Compiling from scratch had some issues with the newest clang versions, so I tried to run it in docker. However, when running it in the docker, I get the errors above...

Kindly,
Joris

[tbaudier]

For me, it's work on MacOS:

(base) tbaudier@eq4-tb-693 ~ % gcc -v
Apple clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.0.40.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin22.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

With
itk = v5.2.1
vtk = 9.1.0

[jwutsetro]

I will give that a try ! I was trying to compile it with a much older version of vtk ( and that is where the troubles already started ). I will get back to you if it works !

Kindly,
Joris

[jwutsetro]

The versions of its and vtk are compiled without issue. however, when making vv, I get some errors ( attached in picture).
I tried both with and without the CXX flag to std=c++11. Any other ideas what to change?

[tbaudier]

Could you discribe the option you selected during configuration step please?

[jwutsetro]

Below a screenshot of my configurations. I tried changing the Cmake_CXX_FLAGS to -std=c++11, but that did not work. I must confess that my knowledge on make/cmake an C++ is rather small. But I after searching a bit on the errors it seems to me it has something to do with the C++11 compatibility.

[tbaudier]

I'm sorry, I cannot reproduce the error on my computer

[jwutsetro]

Thanks for trying anyway. The only thing I can think of that is not exactly as mentioned in the compiling guide is some flags when compiling vtk 9.1.0. I could not find Module_vtkGUISupportQtOpenGL nor VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND. So it might be using openGL2 by default ?

Otherwise I am clueless :)

[tbaudier]

Here, our modified flags:
VTK:

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release
VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_GUISupportQt YES
VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_RenderingQt YES
VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_ViewsQt YES

ITK:

BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON
BUILD_TESTING OFF
Module_ITKVtkGlue ON

[jwutsetro]

Thanks for sharing, I had exactly the same values,...
Currently I am trying it with an other version of qt, colleagues of me have an old working version on qt 5.9.7, I was using 5.15.9. The output of gcc-v give the following for me
(base) jw@Js-MacBook-Pro Qt5Designer % cd $home
(base) jw@Js-MacBook-Pro ~ % gcc -v
Apple clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.0.40.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin23.0.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

Trying it with the different qt version will be my last try I guess :), thanks for all the help anyway