[Paraview] Building VTK with shared libraries in ParaView

[Alexis Chan]

Hi

I set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS in CMAKE to TRUE when configuring ParaView.

My test application uses the VTK library from ParaView. Here's the CMAKE
entry:

FIND_PACKAGE( VTK REQUIRED )
INCLUDE( ${VTK_USE_FILE} )
SET( VTK_LIBS vtkRendering vtkIO)

CMAKE autoloads the VTK directory as D:/alexisc/CompiledParaview/VTK

I checked that all the required dlls and libs are in
D:\alexisc\CompiledParaview\bin\Release

But when I compile my application in Microsoft Visual Studio I get the
following errors:

Creating library
D:\alexisc\CompiledVTKInteractionDevice\lib\Release\vtkInteractionDevice.lib
and object
D:\alexisc\CompiledVTKInteractionDevice\lib\Release\vtkInteractionDevice.exp
1>vtkVRPNTrackerStyleCamera.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
"__declspec(dllimport) public: static int __cdecl vtkObject::IsTypeOf(char
const *)" (__imp_?IsTypeOf at vtkObject@@SAHPBD at Z)
1>vtkWiiMoteStyleCamera.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
"__declspec(dllimport) public: static int __cdecl vtkObject::IsTypeOf(char
const *)" (__imp_?IsTypeOf at vtkObject@@SAHPBD at Z)
1>vtkWiiMoteStyle.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
"__declspec(dllimport) public: static int __cdecl vtkObject::IsTypeOf(char
const *)" (__imp_?IsTypeOf at vtkObject@@SAHPBD at Z)
1>vtkWin32RenderWindowDeviceInteractor.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved
external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: static int __cdecl
vtkObject::IsTypeOf(char const *)" (__imp_?IsTypeOf at vtkObject@@SAHPBD at Z)


If I set the Configuration Properties->General->Project
Defaults->Configuration Type from .dll to .lib, the compilation works.

This means that it was able to detect vtkRendering.lib which is in
D:\alexisc\CompiledParaview\bin\Release

But the application will not start because of missing vtkRendering.dll which
is also in D:\alexisc\CompiledParaview\bin\Release

Do you have any idea why the application is not able to detect
vtkRendering.dll?

Thanks.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:12 PM, David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>wrote:

> Yes, all libraries that ParaView builds including VTK will also be built
> shared. Let us know if you need any more help.
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Alexis Chan <alexisc at stanfordalumni.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS in CMAKE to TRUE when building ParaView. Does that
>> mean that when it's building VTK for ParaView, the VTK is built with shared
>> libraries?
>>
>>
>> I am building a test application that uses the VTK from ParaView and it
>> would only compile when I changed the setting for the test application to
>> static libraries (instead of shared libraries).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>  --
>> Alexis YL Chan
>>
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