[Paraview] Building VTK with shared libraries in ParaView

[Alexis Chan]

Hi

I just found this thread which answers my question:
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2004-December/005906.html

I put the ParaView bin directory in my System Path (Environment variable)
and my application is able to start.

Thanks.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alexis Chan <alexisc at stanfordalumni.org>wrote:

> 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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>
>
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