[vtkusers] MFC app in VS .NET 2003

[de Boer Ingo]

Hi,

I think you should build your app with the 
VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB compiler flag.

greets
  Ingo


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Dr.-Ing. Ingo H. de Boer

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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am brand new to using vtk, I would like to add vtk 
> capabilities to an
> existing MFC app created in VS .NET 2003.  I am starting by 
> trying to build
> the simplest of MFC apps, but without success.  I perused the 
> mailing list
> archive but couldn't find an answer for my problems.  What I 
> have done so
> far:
> 
> Downloaded VTK-4.4-LatestRelease.zip, unzipped to C:\VTK
> Used CMake 2.2 to create the .Net 2003 solution (including 
> building the
> dll's)
> Open the solution, built ALL_BUILD, no errors (about 15 minutes on my
> machine)
> Moved the created dll's into Windows/System32
> 
> In VS .NET:
> 
> Added all the directories for the includes in the
> Tools/Options/Projects/VC++ Directories (C:\vtk, 
> C:\vtk\common, etc. etc.)
> Did the same for the lib files (C:\vtk\bin\debug)  
> (Should I have built as the release version instead of Debug?)
> 
> Then built a simple SDI MFC app called testvtk, put a button on the
> interface, and tried to add the code from the cone.cxx file in the
> testvtkView.cpp to get the cone to display with a button 
> push.  The header
> files are all found just fine, but I get many (>100) errors in files
> provided in MSVC .NET ?!?!  These seem to be related to IO 
> and utilities,
> some examples of where the errors occur:
> 
> c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> 2003\Vc7\include\xutility(862): error C2143: syntax error : 
> missing ';'
> before '<'
> c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> 2003\Vc7\include\streambuf(320): error C2146: syntax error : 
> missing ';'
> before identifier 'xsputn'
> c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> 2003\Vc7\include\xstring(1564): error C2947: expecting '>' to 
> terminate
> template-argument-list, found '>'
> 
> etc. etc. ad infinitum (ok more than 100 at which point it 
> terminates). 
> These are related to the #includes from the cone.cxx file, 
> the errors appear
> when the includes are put into the testvtkView.cpp file.
> 
> Is there a setting I need to change that will prevent this?  
> None of the
> errors seem to be in any vtk files, but in MS files that they are
> referencing.  Any help would be greatly appreciated . .
> 
> 
> Kent
> 
> 
> Kent Ogden PhD
> Assistant Professor, Radiology
> SUNY Upstate Medical University
> 750 E. Adams Street
> Syracuse, NY  13210
> 
> email:  ogdenk at upstate.edu 
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