[Paraview] Build Error with 4.0 Sources on VS 2012 Express

[Kyle Lutz]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Kyle Lutz wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Michael Jackson
>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Kyle Lutz wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Michael Jackson
>>>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to build the ParaView 4.0 sources from the download website on Windows 7 x64 with Visual Studio 2012 express as a 64 bit executable. I have a self built Qt 4.8.4 with OUT QtWebkit. I set the appropriate CMake variables for the missing QtWeb kit, configured and started to build. I am getting errors of the type:
>>>>>
>>>>> Error   3337    error C2491: 'pqFlatTreeView::PipeLength' : definition of dllimport static data member not allowed      C:\Users\mjackson\Workspace\ParaView-v4.0.0\Qt\Widgets\pqFlatTreeView.cxx       158     1       pqWidgets
>>>>>
>>>>> And lots more of those for various files. Is this a known issue with VS2012 or my own Qt or something else?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if it's the correct fix but the attached patch should
>>>> allow it to compile.
>>>>
>>>> -kyle
>>>> <pipe_length_fix.diff>
>>>
>>> so that cleared up a few of the errors but now I am getting this:
>>>
>>>
>>> Error    187    error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) const pqAnimationKeyFrame::`vftable'{for `QObject'}" (__imp_??_7pqAnimationKeyFrame@@6BQObject@@@) referenced in function "public: __cdecl pqAnimationKeyFrame::pqAnimationKeyFrame(class pqAnimationTrack *,class QGraphicsScene *)" (??0pqAnimationKeyFrame@@QEAA at PEAVpqAnimationTrack@@PEAVQGraphicsScene@@@Z)
>>>
>>> This is also with the just released ParaView 4.0.1 sources. What I find strange is that a release was done from these sources. I think my self compiled Qt is in some way causing these errors as I checked the Dashboard and none of the Windows computers seem to be having these issues. Just seems odd that everyone else can compile ParaView without a problem but I can not.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Hmm. I'm not sure (though I don't have much experience with
>> Windows/MSVC). Could you try with the precompiled Qt 4.8 libraries?

Untested on Windows, but could you try the attached patch?

-kyle
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