[vtkusers] vtk on CBuilder 5

[William A. Hoffman]

You can use CMake to generate command line makefiles that are compatible with
the borland 5 make program.    If you use this option with the compiler:

-P      Force C++ compile

It will treat the .cxx files as c++.   

I would recommend using cmake to build VTK, then use the IDE for your projects
that use VTK.   If you want to know what flags to give to the linker/compiler, 
run cmake, then look at the generated Makefiles.

-Bill


At 11:12 AM 3/21/2002 -0700, Gary L. Graf wrote:
>Hi,  I just started a project where I will use vtk in a C++ environment
>and selected Borland's CBuilder 5 as the IDE.  I have not worked in C++
>for several years (yea Java) and selected BCB5 since I was familiar with
>the JBuilder IDE and liked it.  The basic problem I am having is trying
>to get vtk to compile and link with BCB5 (not using CMake).  In trying
>to run the Cone2.cxx example, it seems to start out OK but I get an
>error "[Linker Fatal Error] Fatal: Expected a file name:" which bombs
>the process.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out what the linker is
>looking for.  Is there anyone out there who can help, and if possible,
>is there anyone out there who would be willing to answer a few question
>off-line is necessary so I can get up and running?
>
>In a related question, why does vtk use .cxx for everything.  Both VS
>and BCB don't automatically recognize it as a standard C++ type and all
>the file and text loading functions must be run as "All files".  BCB
>doesn't even want to display in in the text editor (unless I am doing
>something wrong).  Would any problems result if I changed them to .cpp?
>
>Thanks - Gary
>
>
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