[vtk-developers] Python dll suffix

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

FYI - The oldest commit I found referencing "PythonD" is the following one
[1], it explains why there is a separation into a Python and PythonD
library.

Hth
Jc

[1] http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commit;h=56ca4f8198

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> For each python module there should be two libraries:
>
> libvtkCommonCorePythonD.so
> vtkCommonCorePython.so
>
> The second library is the python c extension module (and it's probably in
> a different output directory.)  I forget was the 'D' stands for, but it
> doesn't mean debug.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Marcus,
>>    Sorry the last message was garbled.
>> I was reviewing the dlls in the windows build of VTK 6.0 and noticed that
>> all the python dlls have a D suffix in the release build,
>> e.g vtkAMRCorePythonD-6.0.dll, similarly on Linux e.g
>> vtkAMRCorePythonD *.so*
>>
>> I did a quick scan through the CMakeLists.txt files but I can't see where
>> D suffix is being added for the release versions.
>>
>> Is it intentional that these files all have the D suffix for release
>> versions?
>>
>> Regards
>>    Andrew
>>
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