[Paraview] MinGW compilation

[David Cole]

ParaView should package correctly such that its installer works on any
Windows system, regardless of MSVC runtime dlls. That is what the line:
INCLUDE(InstallRequiredSystemLibraries)
from ParaView3CPack.cmake is all about.

With VS8 2005, you can still put all the dlls in the same directory with the
app, but you also need a manifest file. CMake 2.4.8 should properly take
care of this for you, though.

If not, it's a CMake bug. (Or a bug in ParaView's cmakelists files...)

Are you trying to build an installer after building with VS8 and it's not
working?

HTH,
David


On 2/28/08, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, I see. I think there is a way of packaging the vs05 dlls without
> requiring the users to install the Microsoft dlls themselves. It has
> something to do with manifests and such. Dave Cole would know better.
>
>
> -berk
>
> On 2/28/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=261
> >
> >  explains it way better than me. Basically with VS 6 there was DLL
> >  hell. With VS 7, MS tried to alleviate the problem by saying put all
> >  your DLLs in the same directory as the executable. This alleviated DLL
> >  Hell but MS could NOT centrally admin those c runtime libraries like
> >  they could in VS 6. So they came up with DLL versioning. But to use
> >  this each user has to run an executable that installs the VS 8 Runtime
> >  DLL in system32, which requires admin access. My users don't have
> >  admin rights on their machines. So basically this would require 2
> >  support calls to our computer support department. One to install the
> >  VS8Runtime dlls and another to install ParaView. With VS2003.Net it is
> >  a drag and drop installation, and probably with MinGW.
> >
> >  Hope that explains it. (I have gotten a real education on this today.
> >  You know me, I am an OS X/Linux guy)
> >
> >
> >  Mike
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> >  > This will probably expose my ignorance about Windows but why can't
> >  > your users install a vs05 build without admin privileges?
> >  >
> >  > -berk
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On 2/28/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > > is anyone using MinGW to compile ParaView cvs? Turns out I only
> have
> >  > >  the Standard version of VS2003.net so there is no optimization
> >  > >  allowed. I am thinking of alternatives. I have VS2005 Pro except I
> >  > >  really need something that can produce a drag and drop
> installation.
> >  > >  Our users do not have local admin on their machines to use an
> actual
> >  > >  installer.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Any comments are most welcome.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Thanks
> >  > >
> >  > > --
> >  > >  Mike Jackson
> >  > >  imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Mike Jackson
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