[vtkusers] Problems with vtkWin32Header.h (I think)

[Matthew D. DiFranco]

Unfortunately, I did have VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT set to ON. The problem 
arises with VTK_IO_EXPORT as well. It's basically any macro defined 
in vtkWin32Header.h.

At 18:31 16/08/2005, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>Hi Matt,
>
>When you ran CMakeSetup just before you compiled VTK, did you set 
>VTK_USE_HYBRID to ON?  It's off by default, and that would probably 
>explain why VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT caused errors.
>
>- Amy
>
>At 12:53 PM 8/16/2005, Matthew D. DiFranco wrote:
>>I have just started looking at a program that uses VTK, and I am 
>>new to it. I am trying to compile the program as is on Windows XP 
>>in Visual C++ 6.0 using VTK 4.2. VTK compiles without a problem, 
>>but when I go to compile the code, I get the following error:
>>
>>'vtkResampleSurface Filter uses undefined class VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT'
>>
>>and a few others like it, followed by a whole bunch of errors 
>>related to that one. Having done some investigation, I've 
>>discovered that this error is due to the following class definition:
>>
>>class VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT vtkResampleSurfaceFilter : public 
>>vtkPolyDatatoPolyDataFilter
>>
>>Upon further searching, I discovered that the rogue 
>>VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT is a macro defined in vtkWin32Header.h which 
>>should translate to __declspec(dllexport) or __declspec(dllimport), 
>>depending on the existence of the vtkHybrid_EXPORTS flag.
>>
>> From my searching on the MSDN, I have discovered that the 
>> __declspec business has to do with importing and exporting to and 
>> from dll's. I don't really understand that stuff, but I'd really 
>> like to figure out how to get my program to recognize the 
>> existence of this macro definition so that it will compile. 
>> Anybody know what needs to happen?
>>
>>Matt
>>
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