[Gate-users] Building GATE v9.1 on Ubuntu 20.04

[Schneider Tim]

Dear Gaters,

We are trying to install GATE v9.1 on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine and we’re having some quite strange errors during the make step:

/home/angela/geant4.10.06.p03-install/include/Geant4/CLHEP/Geometry/BasicVector3D.h:468:3: note: candidate: ‘std::ostream& std::operator<<(std::ostream&, int)’
  468 |   operator<<(std::ostream &, const BasicVector3D<double> &);
      |   ^~~~~~~~
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:307:56: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class GateARFTable’
  307 |     GateARFTable* arfTable = new GateARFTable(tableName);
      |                                                        ^
In file included from /home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:14:
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/include/GateARFTableMgr.hh:14:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class GateARFTable’
   14 | class GateARFTable;
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:308:13: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class GateARFTable’
  308 |     arfTable->Initialize(tableBuffer[4], tableBuffer[5]);
      |             ^~
In file included from /home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:14:
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/include/GateARFTableMgr.hh:14:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class GateARFTable’
   14 | class GateARFTable;
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:309:13: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class GateARFTable’
  309 |     arfTable->SetEnergyReso(tableBuffer[2]);
      |             ^~
In file included from /home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:14:
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/include/GateARFTableMgr.hh:14:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class GateARFTable’
   14 | class GateARFTable;
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:310:13: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class GateARFTable’
  310 |     arfTable->SetERef(tableBuffer[3]);
      |             ^~
In file included from /home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:14:
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/include/GateARFTableMgr.hh:14:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class GateARFTable’
   14 | class GateARFTable;
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:322:13: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class GateARFTable’
  322 |     arfTable->FillTableFromBuffer(tableBuffer);
      |             ^~
In file included from /home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc:14:
/home/angela/Gate-9.0/source/arf/include/GateARFTableMgr.hh:14:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class GateARFTable’
   14 | class GateARFTable;
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/GateLib.dir/build.make:128: CMakeFiles/GateLib.dir/source/arf/src/GateARFTableMgr.cc.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/GateLib.dir/build.make:154: CMakeFiles/GateLib.dir/source/digits_hits/src/GateActions.cc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:290: CMakeFiles/GateLib.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2

This is actually only the lost couple of lines, there are many more such errors and warnings like these before the build completely fails.

The ccmake options look like this:

 BUILD_TESTING                    OFF                                                                                                                                   
 CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY    2.4                                                                                                                                   
 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE                 Release                                                                                                                               
 CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX             /home/angela/gate-install                                                                                                             
 EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH                                                                                                                                                 
 GATE_COMPILE_GATEDIGIT           OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_COMPILE_WITH_NATIVE         OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_DAVIS                   OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_ECAT7                   OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_GEANT4_UIVIS            ON                                                                                                                                    
 GATE_USE_ITK                     OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_LMF                     OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_OPTICAL                 OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_RTK                     OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_SYSTEM_CLHEP            OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_TORCH                   OFF                                                                                                                                   
 GATE_USE_XRAYLIB                 OFF                                                                                                                                   
 Geant4_DIR                       /home/angela/geant4.10.06.p03-install/lib/Geant4-10.6.3
 LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH                                                                                                                                                    
 PTL_DIR                          /home/angela/geant4.10.06.p03-install/lib/Geant4-10.6.3/PTL                                                                           
 ROOTCINT_EXECUTABLE              /home/angela/root/bin/rootcint      


There was initially another problem that seemed to originate from root and Geant4 having been compiled with different C++ standards. We rebuilt Geant4 enforcing the C++ 17 standard and root is actually the downloaded binary which seems to work fine.

Does anyone have an idea what the error during the GATE build could be and how to fix it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best,
Tim