[vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK (Marcus D. Hanwell)

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Hi Andrew,

This should work fine, we haven't been looking at Qt very much
(focusing on rendering). I have not got QtOpenGL working, but the
GUISupport/Qt module should work. The short term issue is as I pointed
out - getting GLEW/Eigen installed. Both can be added as third parties
though, and then it will become somewhat simpler to build. The prefix
path is a feature of the Qt 5 libs using CMake config files, and
should work fine.

Marcus

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>   Looking forward to trying this out!
> Will this also work on Windows 8.1?
> I am currently building using VS2012 and QT5.3 (64-bit). For building with
> Qt5.3 I have to set:
> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:STRING=C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows
> Kits/8.1/Lib/winv6.3/um/x64
> to pick up the OpenGL libs for QT. Will this conflict?
>
> Regards
>    Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:38 PM, <vtk-developers-request at vtk.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Marcus D. Hanwell" <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com>
>> To: VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:38:13 -0400
>> Subject: [vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have been hard at work on new rendering code for VTK that makes use
>> of OpenGL 2.1+, and moves to modernize our rendering code. We have
>> also added new CMake capabilities to specify a rendering backend, this
>> defaults to the existing rendering code but can be swapped out for the
>> new. This has been in development for several months, and we intend to
>> merge it to master tomorrow.
>>
>> If you want to build the new rendering modules they are mutually
>> exclusive of the old rendering modules, as it was necessary to reuse
>> the same class names etc. They depend upon GLEW and Eigen at this
>> time, and I have not yet done the work to add either as third party
>> modules (I will get to it). We will be adding several dashboards to
>> test the new rendering backend next week.
>>
>> I intend to merge the main branch tomorrow, and will monitor the
>> dashboard for issues over the weekend (using the existing OpenGL
>> implementation). Next week we will add dashboard submissions testing
>> the new rendering backend. We will then attempt to merge updates to
>> this new rendering code more regularly. There are some pretty
>> significant rendering improvements, and we will summarize these in the
>> coming weeks too.
>>
>> Hopefully disruption to master will be minimal, please let me know if
>> you think there is anything I missed. I am really excited to get some
>> of this code to a wider group, and hope to begin showcasing some of
>> the progress we have made.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
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