[vtkusers] Can anyone provide python vtkTkRenderWidget.dll and vtkTkImageWindowWidget.dll ?

[Ron Dilsavor]

Hi, 
I am a new vtk user and am getting the following error on a PC:
TclError: couldn't load file "vtkTkImageWindowWidget": invalid argument

I searched the mail list archives and found an applicable exchange that I
provide below for reference.
Can anyone provide the python vtkTkRenderWidget.dll and
vtkTkImageWindowWidget.dll libraries?
I would try to follow the directions below to create them but I don't have
cl.exe or link.exe on my machine

Thanks,
Ron
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Hi Heather,

The python vtkTkRenderWidget.dll and vtkTkImageWindowWidget.dll are
not built under Windows (yet) - you have to build them yourself.
I'll attach the instructions below.

These instructions do not work with the nightly releases because
they build VTK with tcl/tk 8.2 (Python is only compatible with 8.0).
There is a way around this -- you can copy vtk/pcmaker/xlib from
vtk2.4 and force VTK to build with tcl/tk 8.0.

Instructions:

Assuming you have installed VTK in C:\vtk, open a DOS shell and cd to
C:\vtkbin\vtkpython.  Then do the following (should put this in a .bat
file):

cl.exe /D "STRICT" /nologo /MD /O2 /I "C:\Progra~1\DevStudio\VC\\include"
/I "C:\vtk\common" /I "C:\vtk\graphics" /I "C:\vtk\imaging" /D "NDEBUG" /D
"WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS"  /I "C:\vtk\pcmaker\xlib" /I "\..\generic" /D
"VTK_USE_PATENTED" /I "C:\vtk\patented"  /D "VTK_USE_CONTRIB" /I
"C:\vtk\contrib"  /D "VTK_USE_LOCAL" /I "C:\vtk\local"  /D "_WINDLL" /D
"_MBCS"  /D "VTK_LEAN_AND_MEAN" /D VTK_PYTHON_BUILD /Foobj\ /c
"C:\vtk\graphics\vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx"

link.exe obj\vtkTkRenderWidget.obj /dll /incremental:no
/pdb:vtktkrenderwidget.pdb /machine:I386 /out:..\lib\vtkTkRenderWidget.dll
/implib:..\lib\vtkTkRenderWidget.lib
/libpath:"C:\Progra~1\DevStudio\VC\\lib"
"C:\Progra~1\DevStudio\VC\lib\gdi32.lib"
"C:\Progra~1\DevStudio\VC\lib\user32.lib" /nologo /version:1.3
/subsystem:windows "C:\PROGRA~1\Tcl\lib\tk80.lib"
"C:\PROGRA~1\Tcl\lib\tcl80.lib" ..\vtkdll\vtkdll.lib

- David

--
 David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
 Advanced Imaging Research Group
 Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Heather Drury wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have an application that runs fine under UNIX and are
> trying to port to NT. I'm pretty unfamiliar with PC's (and
> proud of it) and we are encountering the following problem:
> 
>   File "ImageVTK.py", line 42, in __init__
>     master.tk.call('load',os.path.join(tkWidgetPath,'vtkTkImageWindowWidget'))
> TclError: couldn't load file "vtkTkImageWindowWidget": invalid argument
> 
> Under UNIX, in the VTK release I'm using (2.40, build 268), the
> file "vtkTkImageWindowWidget" gets seperately compiled from
> "vtkpython.so" file. What is the analagous file on the PC?
> Should this reference exist in the DLL on the PC?
> 
> Help please.
> 
> Heather 
> 
> Heather Drury                                 heather at v1.wustl.edu
> Senior Research Scientist in Neurobiology
> Washington University School of Medicine      http://v1.wustl.edu
> Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology          Phone: 314-362-4325
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> 
>