PyVista VTK Wheels

Here are hosted VTK wheels built using OSMesa on Ubuntu 20.04 with glib 2.31.

For a variety of reasons, these wheels were not built on an earlier version of Linux, nor were "repaired" using auditwheel, and are therefore have limited compatability. See the last section for build notes.

These wheels are used within the PyVista documentation build to avoid using xvfb, which has been found to be unstable and has lower performance.

Build Process for the Python 3.8/3.9 OSMesa Wheels

Build requirements (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install libosmesa6-dev cmake ninja-build libboost-all-dev

The vtk_osmesa-*-cp3*-cp3*-linux_x86_64.whl wheels follow the build procedures defined in in VTK GitLab CI.

Further, we have worked to streamline the CMake configurations for building these wheels in banesullivan/vtk-cmake. To build the wheels yourself, please follow the guide there.

Auditwheel and ManyLinux Build Issues for OSMesa

Note that these wheels failed to be repaired correctly using auditwheel for Ubuntu 20.04 due to an issue linking libffi, and therefore were not converted.

Wheels build using images from https://quay.io/organization/pypa did not work on Ubuntu 20.04 due to a GLSL 1.50 not supported bug.

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Python 3.10

Unlike OSMesa, the wheel build for Python 3.10 Linux x86_64 was surprisingly straightforward using quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64:

build_wheel.sh:

docker run \
       --rm -v `pwd`:/io \
       quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64 \
       /io/build_wheel_manylinux.sh 3.10

build_wheel_manylinux.sh:

#!/bin/bash
set -e -x

cd io
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build

# install build dependencies
yum update -y
yum install mesa-libGL-devel cmake ninja-build -y

# build based on python version from args
PYTHON_VERSION="$1"
case $PYTHON_VERSION in
3.7)
  PYBIN="/opt/python/cp37-cp37m/bin"
  ;;
3.8)
  PYBIN="/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin"
  ;;
3.9)
  PYBIN="/opt/python/cp39-cp39/bin"
  ;;
3.10)
  PYBIN="/opt/python/cp310-cp310/bin"
  ;;
esac

cmake -GNinja \
       -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
       -DVTK_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
       -DVTK_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION=OFF \
       -DVTK_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
       -DVTK_DATA_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL:BOOL=ON \
       -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_PythonInterpreter:STRING=NO \
       -DVTK_WHEEL_BUILD=ON \
       -DVTK_PYTHON_VERSION=3 \
       -DVTK_WRAP_PYTHON=ON \
       -DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_EGL=False \
       -DPython3_EXECUTABLE=$PYBIN/python \
       ../

ninja

# build, don't install
echo "using Python'${PYBIN}'"
"${PYBIN}/python" setup.py bdist_wheel --dist-dir wheel

# create wheel in wheelhouse
"${PYBIN}/pip" install auditwheel
"${PYBIN}/python" -m auditwheel repair wheel/*.whl --plat manylinux2014_x86_64
chmod -R 777 wheelhouse