[Paraview] Run Problem using Viaual Studio 8.0

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Andrew,

Please update your ParaView 2.4 CVS repository 
and try building again.  I checked in changes 
this afternoon to that CVS branch that should fix 
your build problems.  Please let us know if you encounter more problems.

- Amy

At 09:27 AM 3/14/2006, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>I'm copying this thread back to the ParaView 
>users list to keep other people up-to-date on 
>this issue.  The error around line 1205 in 
>vtkClientServerStream.cxx has now been fixed 
>both on the trunk and the 2.4 branch of the 
>ParaView CVS repository.  Another developer at 
>Kitware (who has a Visual Studio 8.0 compiler) 
>is looking into the problem in 
>vtkInformationVectorKey.  I'll let you know when it has been fixed.
>
>- Amy
>
>At 10:33 PM 3/13/2006, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>Hi Amy,
>>
>>It still won’t run – an exception is raised at 
>>line 1205 in vtkClientserver.cxx.
>>
>>Thanks for fixing line 239 (I prefer your 
>>solution to mine!), but in the same bug report 
>>I also mentioned line1205 and, as I thought, it is not fixed.
>>Look at line 1205 – in 
>>vtkClientServerStream.cxx [ unsigned char* end 
>>= &*this->Internal->Data.end(); ]
>>This raises a “vector iterator not 
>>dereferencable” error. This is actually correct 
>>behavior; the standard does not allow you to 
>>dereference the end iterator. It just so 
>>happens that this compiler picks up this one and no others do!
>>
>>
>>My suggestions would be:
>>
>>1 ) Delete lines 1208 to 1211 and add the following at line 1202:
>>if(this->Internal->Data.empty())
>>   {
>>      return 0;
>>   }
>>This does the empty vector check before anything happens.
>>
>>2) You can then (but I don’t like it – it’s a 
>>kludge which fools the compiler) replace:
>>unsigned char *end = &*this->Internal->Data.end();
>>with
>>unsigned char *end = begin+this->Internal->Data.size()*sizeof(unsigned char);
>>
>>and the parser seems to work.
>>
>>3) But then you then get a crash at line 138 in 
>>vtkInformationVectorKey.cxx. Once again this 
>>line triggers a “vector subscript out of range error”.
>>
>>
 this is getting complex!   I don’t know this 
>>code very well. I am guessing that v is empty 
>>and that info is empty also. So something is 
>>not being checked for being empty in ParaView.
>>
>>I suspect something in vtkSMProxy::UpdateVTKObjects(); line 875.
>>
>>Attached is the call stack for this crash.
>>
>>
>>4) Could you also disable the deprecated 
>>warnings by adding this to the CMakeLists.txt file?
>>
>>
>>I hope all this helps.
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>From: Amy Squillacote [ mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:58
>>To: a.maclean at cas.edu.au; paraview at paraview.org
>>Subject: Re: [Paraview] Run Problem using Viaual Studio 8.0
>>
>>Hi Andrew,
>>
>>A change was made recently (a week ago) to fix 
>>this problem both on the trunk and the 2.4 
>>branch of the ParaView CVS repository.  How 
>>recent is your checkout of ParaView?  If it's 
>>older than a week ago, please try updating the 
>>source tree and rebuilding.  If your source 
>>tree is up-to-date and you're still seeing the 
>>problem, can you tell where the end iterator is 
>>being dereferenced and will you send us a stack trace?
>>
>>- Amy
>>
>>At 01:57 AM 3/11/2006, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>
>>Hi All,
>>    I have been able to compile ParaView OK 
>> using Visual Studio  8.0 (it compiles with the 
>> usual warnings about {Microsoft} deprecated functions) but it will not run.
>>I have filed a bug report (2926) but I am 
>>curious to see if others are able to run 
>>ParaView after compiling with Visual Studio 
>>8.0. The crash seems to be caused by dereferencing the end iterator.
>>Am I the only one using Visual Studio 8.0 and ParaView?
>>
>>Andrew
>>--
>>
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