[Paraview] build pv5.3 on windows 10 with visual studio 15 2017

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I suspect your environment is messed up with mutliple Qt versions
showing up. Use Dependency Walker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/)
to make sure the dlls loaded are indeed the dlls you expect for Qt and
other external dependencies.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Claire Guilbaud
<claire.guilbaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to launch paraview build on the last version of visual studio
> (15.1 26407.3).
> I follow this documentation
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install.
>
> I use Qt 5, and just enable paraview python (miniconda2).
>
> I tried first to build with the last Qt 5 version (5.8.0), it failed due to
> const expr error in qt (it's a known issue). So I switch to Qt 5.6.2.
>
> I follow the instructions from the documentation: set path variable, modify
> environment variable in the configuration properties for paraview project.
> The Debug generation failed: qt and paraview don't have the same debugging
> level …
>
> The RefWithDebInfo generation succeeds. But I'm not able to launch paraview
> (from visual studio - start without debugging or from file explorer).
> There are missing symbols in paraview.exe :
> ?toLatin1 at QString@@QEGBA?AVQByteArray@@XZ (same with toLower, toUtf8).
>
> Does anyone have an idea on how to fix it ?
>
> For information:
> - I don't use the cmake capabilities of visual studio: I use cmake-gui,
> configure, and generate.Then I open the paraview solution.
> - I try with Qt4 version, it failed. I reinstall Qt several times.
> - All my environment is in french
>
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Claire
>
>
>
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