[vtk-developers] vtk cvs and vfw.dll

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Sebastien BARRE wrote:
> At 8/17/2005 08:58 PM, Luca Picello wrote:
> 
>> damn.... another bcb bug... :-(
>> however a work around in VTK would be very appreciated.
>> thanks a million,
> 
> 
> We are going to try to compile a small C++ file to check if we can rely 
> on Video For Windows. There are CMake commands to do that kind of trick, 
> it is done to test many other features in VTK so it's pretty 
> straightforward. This will benefit vtkWin32VideoSource too in Hybrid, 
> and remove one more cryptic option from the list of options.

There is at least one more system that do not support VFW: cygwin.
The header file shipped with cygwin do not define all the needed symbol.

I sent once a patch to cygwin list, never heard it was checked in.

My 2 cents
Mathieu