Installing VTK on Windows NT 4

[Thomas Demachy]

Hello,

You just got in contact with the "Run-time library dilema" of Windows
program compilation !

As you can see, you have six of those options to choose from. each of these
option will cause a differnet library to be used during the link stage.

The trick is that when you link to external libraries, you usually need to
compile your application with the same options as the libraries where
compiled with ... or you'll have some kind of link error.

Up to now, I did not hav any problems linking with the vtkdll.lib llibrary
with any code generation options, as long as I begin with a "Win32 console
application" project template to begin with. So you can switch to "debug
single-thread".

Now, f you have Visual C++ 6.0 installed on your computer, you *HAVE TO*
have msvcrtd.dll somewhere (usually in the System32 directory of Windows).
If you don't, you should reinstall MSVC6, or even better, download service
pack 3 for MS visual studio. It is the debug version of msvcrt.dll.

Hope this helps

Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill <gates at cs.ubc.ca>
To: <vtkusers at gsao.med.ge.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 3:24 AM
Subject: Installing VTK on Windows NT 4


> Hi,
>
> I compiled VTK 2.3 from the source code the CD-ROM that comes with the
> VTK User's Guide (June 1999) using MSVC++ 6.0 on a dual-processor PC
> running Window NT 4 (SP4).  I used the "debug version, incremental
> linking" option when building the VTK libraries.  No problem.
>
> Next I created a VC++ project, adding the libraries and setting the
> run-time library to "Debug Muli-threaded".  I compiled the example
> "mace.cxx".  No problem.
>
> I ran the program and got the message "msvcrtd.dll" not found.
> Apparently this DLL does not exist on my PC (that came from a well-known
> company that pre-installed NT)..
>
> I've tried all of the following and still can't get any VTK application
> to run:
>
>     (1) every run-time library option in the project settings -- still
> "msvcrtd.dll" not found
>     (2) building an "optimized version, incremental linking" of VTK --
> still  "msvcrtd.dll" not found
>     (3) downloading and installing a "msvcrtd.dll" -- I got an "invalid
> entry point" error
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Bill (Ph.D. student in computer graphics)
>
>
>
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