[vtk-developers] VTK without vtksys

[Adam Rankin]

Hi David,

Thanks for the insight. I will look into vtksys and do an analysis.

With regards to rendering, I admit my selfishness and say that I will have those disabled, as I am working to get VTK up and running on the HoloLens as an infrastructure project.

Thanks so much!
Adam

From: David Gobbi [mailto:david.gobbi at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:19 PM
To: Adam Rankin <arankin at robarts.ca>
Cc: vtk-developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] VTK without vtksys

As a follow-up, there are lots of Windows API calls in VTK outside of kwsys. In particular, Rendering/OpenGL and Rendering/OpenGL2 would probably require a large number of changes.  Ken Martin and others did a lot of work on Android and iOS changes, the situation with UWP might be parallel with those.


On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:58 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com<mailto:david.gobbi at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Adam,

It's not a crazy notion.  Even though kwsys has lots of Windows API calls, finding them all is straightforward (they're all marked with #if's) and adding another #if clause for UWP calls shouldn't be difficult.  I know nothing about UWP, however, I'm just working on the assumption that, as far as the generic system calls in kwsys goes, it mirrors the old Windows API fairly closely.

 - David


On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Adam Rankin <arankin at robarts.ca<mailto:arankin at robarts.ca>> wrote:
Hello all,

I am trying to build VTK for UWP, and I will fully admit to not knowing the linkages/structure of modules and their dependency on vtksys (aside that the VTK CMake output lists it as a dependency).

Is it a crazy notion to write a vtksys alternative library that builds against the UWP?

I guess what I’m looking for is someone to say, “Sure it’s possible, it would take me a month.” Or “Sure, it’s possible, see you in a year.”

Sorry for the vague question,

Adam


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