[vtk-developers] Python dll suffix

[Pat Marion]

I think the 'D' must stand for Dependency.  It is a bit confusing, because
a D at the end of library name usually means Debug.

Pat

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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