[vtk-developers] vtk cvs and vfw.dll

[Amy Squillacote]

 From poking around on the web, it looks like vfw32.lib points to 
MSVFW32.dll, AVIFIL32.dll, and AVICAP32.dll (all three of which exist 
on my system); it also looks like vfw32.dll does not exist.

- Amy

At 01:46 PM 8/17/2005, David Cole wrote:
>Actually, there is no *vfw32.dll* on my system either. Yet it works 
>for me. I do have AVIFIL32.dll and using depends.exe, I see that 
>this is the correct dependency added to vtkIO.dll by the addition of 
>the vtkAVIWriter.
>
>Luca, can you use "depends.exe" and post the list of dependent dll's 
>of vtkIO here. Apparently, vfw32.lib pulls in dependencies to DLL's 
>with *other* names. There must be something else going on here...
>
>
>Luca Picello wrote:
>
>>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...
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>
>>
>
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