[vtk-developers] vtk cvs and vfw.dll

[Luca Picello]

damn.... another bcb bug... :-(
however a work around in VTK would be very appreciated.
thanks a million,

luca


David Gobbi wrote:

> 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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