[vtkusers] Building VTK 4.x CVS with BC++ builder 6.0

[William A. Hoffman]

 From the README.html in the top level directory of VTK:

      Link error with borland: TCL82.LIB contains invalid OMF record, 
      type 0x21 (possibly COFF). You have to convert Tcl libraires 
      from coff to omf with the Borland utilitiy coff2omf. Once you 
      have created OMF versions, re-run cmake to tell it where the Borland
      versions of Tcl and Tk are located. Also, make sure that you are using
      Tcl/Tk 8.3.2.
 

The larger files may have to do with many things.

Are you building shared or static, optimize for size or not.

What were the errors with the Release type?


We do not have a dashboard for Borland 6 which is why you are having some troubles.
We only test Borland 5.   Once you get this working would you be willing to run
a nightly dashboard for Borland 6?

-Bill


At 11:41 AM 7/17/2002 +0800, Charlie H. Chang wrote:

>Ok, I have tried a few things with the Borland C++ Builder 6.0 Enterprise, 
>which borrowed from a friend, and here is what I have found:
>
>(1) the -w- option is turned on at default when I run CMake
>(2) I changed the "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" to 'Release' and 
>      caused the compilation failure.
>(3) I changed "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" to its default value: 'Debug',
>     and with "VTK_WRAP_TCL" ON, and the compiler will terminate
>     with a message about "OMF object not recognized in TCL83.lib ..".
>(4) Turn off "VTK_WRAP_TCL" and everything was ok, compilation compeleted.
>
>Then I played with the VTK examples, and found that the .exe files were larger 
>than the .exe files built with VC.  So I suspected that had something to do with the
>"CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" option.  Is that right? Or BCC always has larger .exe than 
>the .exe built with VC??
>
>
>
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