[vtkusers] vtk40+CMake+MS VisualStudio 6.0+Missing DLLs after Compilation

[William A. Hoffman]

By default VTK is built statically.  If you want dll's you have to 
turn on BUILD_SHARED_LIBS in CMakeSetup.

-Bill


At 09:16 AM 3/21/2002 +0100, b.dorn at berlin.de wrote:
>Hello, 
>I am upgrading to Vtk 4.0 on my Win NT System for compilation with Visual Studio 6.0 like that:
>1) Unpack vtk40Src.zip to x:\vtk
>2) Run CMake Setup with binary directory x:\vtk\vtkbin
>   and source directory x:\vtk
>3) Open vtk.dsw in x:\vtk\vtkbin
>4) Select for example the active configuration vtkCommon
>   win32 debug
>5) Open the project settings dialog: Instead of the expected
>   tab for the Link-options there is only a library tab.
>6) Visual Studio compiles all the cxx-source files without errors and only creates the lib but not the DLL.
>
>Can anyone tell me what I have to do in order to have the
>DLLs too? Is this a matter of compiler options to be specified in CMake? A typical sample configuration might be helpful.
>
>Sorry if this question is too stupid. 
>
>Thanks
>Burkhardt
>mailto:b.dornREMOVETHIS at berlin.de
>
>
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