[vtkusers] Problem with VTK and wxPython under Win32

[David Gobbi]

Hi David,

If (inside VisualStudio under the Build/SetActiveConfiguration menu)
you must set the configuration to "RelWithDebInfo" and then it won't
look for the python debug library.

 - David

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, David C. Morrill wrote:

> > I almost always build VTK RelWithDebInfo and use non-debug builds of
> > everything else.  It means that it's only possible to see the debug
> > symbols in the VTK parts of the code, but that is sufficient for
> > most of my debugging purposes and is a lot easier than trying to
> > build debug versions of everything.
>
> That sounds good to me. Especially since I've been having no luck building a
> wxWindows/wxPython combination with debug info.
>
> However, I'm not sure I understand how to get CMake to do what you suggest.
> I've been using the CMakeSetup GUI to create Visual C++ project files.
> Yesterday I built a regular debug version of VTK that required using
> python_d. Based on your above comment, I've been trying to build a VTK
> version with debug info, but which uses the normal python.exe. But I'm not
> having any success.
>
> I set the CMake option 'PYTHON_DEBUG_LIBRARY' to point to 'python21.lib'
> instead of 'python21_d.lib'. Visual C++ runs for a while compiling, then
> fails in a link step claiming it can't find 'python21_d.lib'. None of the
> project files seem to reference it directly though.
>
> I assume I'm probably changing the wrong thing. But what is the right way to
> do it? Any suggestions?
>
> Dave Morrill
>
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