error message when configuring build system to build all the tools and install them into /opt/minc/1.9.17

[alicelema]

Hello,

I am trying to install MINC on a on a fresh WSL Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS.

Here are the steps I have followed :

sudo apt-get install \
 build-essential g++ bc \
 cmake \
 bison flex \
 libx11-dev x11proto-core-dev \
 libxi6 libxi-dev \
 libxmu6 libxmu-dev libxmu-headers \
 libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
 libjpeg-dev

git clone --recursive --branch release-1.9.18 https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit-v2.git minc-toolkit-v2

cd minc-toolkit-v2

mkdir build && cd build

sudo apt install gfortran # Had a message error during the cmake first time, adding the 
fortran compiler worked

#cmake ..

#make

# I am not sure the next steps are required if I proceed to the cmake .. && make but I have done it since I had later another error message as described in https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit-v2/issues/173

 cmake .. \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release   \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/minc/1.9.18 \
-DMT_BUILD_ABC:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_ANTS:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_C3D:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_ELASTIX:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_IM:BOOL=OFF   \
-DMT_BUILD_ITK_TOOLS:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_LITE:BOOL=OFF   \
-DMT_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_BUILD_VISUAL_TOOLS:BOOL=ON   \
-DMT_USE_OPENMP:BOOL=ON   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_FFTW3D:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_FFTW3F:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_GLUT:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_GSL:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_HDF5:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_ITK:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_NETCDF:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_NIFTI:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_PCRE:BOOL=OFF   \
-DUSE_SYSTEM_ZLIB:BOOL=OFF 

I get following error message :

-- Looking for alloca - not found
-- [download 0% complete]
-- [download 21% complete]
-- [download 43% complete]
-- [download 64% complete]
-- [download 85% complete]
-- [download 100% complete]
-- Configuring done (75.5s)
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
X11_Xrandr_LIB (ADVANCED)
    linked by target "bicgl" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/bicgl
    linked by target "ppm_to_pixels" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Display
    linked by target "Display" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Display
    linked by target "register" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Register
X11_Xxf86vm_LIB (ADVANCED)
    linked by target "bicgl" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/bicgl
    linked by target "ppm_to_pixels" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Display
    linked by target "Display" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Display
    linked by target "register" in directory /home/alicexxx/minc-toolkit-v2/Register

-- Generating done (0.5s)
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.

Do you have an idea of what I could do?

Thank you.

[gdevenyi]

The missing build librares are likely
libxrandr-dev
libxxf86vm-dev

However the packages available at https://bic-mni.github.io/ do work for newer Ubuntu