[vtk-developers] vtk cvs and vfw.dll

[Luca Picello]

my OS is WindowsXP pro and no VFW32.DLL is present in my system...
does it come from the omnipresent visual studio? ;-)

ciao


Sebastien BARRE wrote:

> At 8/17/2005 07:09 PM, Luca Picello wrote:
>
>> Well... I believe we should, for example when starting vtk.exe (for 
>> TCL) it halts with the red-messagebox-of-death complaining for 
>> VFW32.DLL. and the application terminates.
>
>
> What is your OS ?
>
> We can definitely put the new vtkAVIWriter class inside the 
> VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS conditional, but it's a neat class that was 
> requested in the past on the mailing list, and the default for that 
> var is OFF. Maybe we should have CMake detect if the DLL is preset and 
> set VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS accordingly, instead on relying on the 
> user to figure it out. I'm actually surprised that DLL is not on the 
> system by default...
>
>
> .
>