[vtk-developers] vtk cvs and vfw.dll

[David Gobbi]

A bit more information on the subject:
http://cbuilder.ru/faqs/faqc_en/15853.html  (see below)
It looks like this is a bug that Borland may have never fixed.  I don't know
if there is an easy way to work around this in VTK.


David Gobbi wrote:

> Hi Luca,
>
> It sounds like there is a bug in Borland C++, because vfw32.lib is not 
> supposed to
> link to vfw32.dll.  That might seem counter-intuitive, but that's 
> Windows for you.
>
> I found a brief discussion about this at borland.com:
> http://info.borland.com/devsupport/bcppbuilder/csreadme.txt
> It looks like they fixed the problem in 1997, but maybe it snuck back 
> again.
>
> - David
>
>
> Luca Picello wrote:
>
>> in my vtkIO.dll the dependency required is exactly VFW32.DLL.
>> I do use Borland C++ Builder 6, it includes all files needed to link 
>> to vfw32.ddl
>> (vfw32.lib, vfw.h, vfwmsgs.h, vfw32.def).
>> is it possible you have something which links (visual studio?) to 
>> AVIFIL32.dll ?
>> AVIFIL32.dll is present in my system too.
>>
>> luca
>>
>>
>>
>> Amy Squillacote wrote:
>>
>>> 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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