[Paraview-developers] Building paraview Visual Studio 2008 and Cmake errors

[David Cole]

Please send the compiler/linker error output.

If you look in the error log window in Visual Studio, focus on the
first error first. Many times, the first error of one library not
building cascades into several others that link to that library also
not being able to build...


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:06 PM, antoine vial
<antoine.vial at ensta-bretagne.fr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> As I would like to write my own reader for pv I need to build it, however, I
> can't do that properly.
> Btw I never used Cmake before so sorry if these issues are obvious.
>
> I have Qt 4.6.2, Cmake 2.8.8 and I'm trying to build paraview 3.14.0 on a
> windows x64 platform.
>
> When I hit Cmake's configuration button, plenty of files are not found. For
> instance, on the first twenty lines I have:
>
> Found Qt4: C:/Qt/4.6.2/bin/qmake.exe (found suitable version "4.6.2",
> required is "4.6.0")
>
> Looking for C++ include iosfwd
>
> Looking for C++ include iosfwd - found
>
> Looking for C++ include iostream.h
>
> Looking for C++ include iostream.h - not found
>
> Performing Test Support for 64 bit file systems
>
> Performing Test Support for 64 bit file systems - Failed
>
> Performing Test VTK_CONST_REVERSE_ITERATOR_COMPARISON
>
> Performing Test VTK_CONST_REVERSE_ITERATOR_COMPARISON - Success
>
> Looking for sys/types.h
>
> Looking for sys/types.h - found
>
> Looking for stdint.h
>
> Looking for stdint.h - not found
>
> Looking for stddef.h
>
> Looking for stddef.h - found
> ....
> ....
> .....
> It goes like that all along....
>
> Nonetheless, the configuration runs till the end and I can configure my
> settings and create a visual studio file.
> For this second step, I build the ALL_BUILD target  but at the end only 73
> projects are built correctly, the rest fails. I took a look and the logs and
> most the time, errors occur when visual studio can't open certain libraries.
> As the build operation is time consuming I would like to understand why
> errors occur instead of losing time. I can send the logs if necessary.
>
> I hope someone can help me
> Greetings
>
> Antoine
>
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