[vtkusers] urgent: update VTK

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Isabelle,

You can't just download files that have been 
added to VTK since the 4.4 release and expect 
them to compile.  VTK has undergone many changes 
since that release (enough to have a new major 
version number).  If you want to use these new 
files, you will need to upgrade to a new version 
of VTK -- not just downloading new files you want 
to use one class at a time.  VTK 5.0 is not yet 
available for download from the web.  This means 
you'll need to use CVS (Concurrent Versions System) to get this new version.

If you are running on Windows, you can download 
WinCVS from here: http://www.wincvs.org. If you 
are running *nix, cvs is likely already on your 
system. In either case, you can specify VTK-5-0 
as a tag so CVS knows what version of VTK to 
download.  For the command-line version of CVS, 
follow the instructions here: 
http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#cvs.  When 
you do the checkout, use the -r flag to specify the version (as shown below).

cvs -d 
:pserver:anonymous at public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK checkout -r VTK-5-0 VTK

I've never used WinCVS, but you'll need to 
specify the same things to it that you would for 
the command-line version.  Is there anyone at 
your office that has used CVS before?  If so, 
they would be better equipped to help you learn how to use it.

- Amy

At 03:56 PM 9/12/2005, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>This is maybe ridiculous but how can I do this: 
>downloading from CVS with the branch tag 
>VTK-5-0? When I download a file from CVS, I just 
>click on the download button from this site:
>
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=Insight>http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=Insight
>
>Revision 1.27 - 
>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?rev=1.27&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&view=markup>view) 
>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?rev=1.27>download) 
>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.27>as 
>text) 
>(<http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?annotate=1.27&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0>annotate) 
>- 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?view=log&only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&r1=1.27>[select 
>for diffs]
>Tue Jul 19 17:55:47 2005 UTC (7 weeks, 6 days ago) by martink
>Branch: 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=MAIN>MAIN 
>
>CVS Tags: 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=HEAD>HEAD, 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0-bp>VTK-5-0-bp, 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-PaintersShaders-bp>VTK-PaintersShaders-bp, 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=Widgets-Redesign-bp>Widgets-Redesign-bp 
>
>Branch point for: 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0>VTK-5-0, 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-PaintersShaders>VTK-PaintersShaders, 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=Widgets-Redesign>Widgets-Redesign 
>
>Changes since 1.26: +2 -2 lines
>Di! ff to 
><http://www.itk.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/vtkAlgorithm.cxx?only_with_tag=VTK-5-0&r2=1.27&r1=1.26>previous 
>1.26
>
>BTW, compilation seems to fail with 
>vtkGarbageCollector called from vtkAlgorithm.... 
>I am so confused that all day long I have been trying to compile my project.
>
>Isabelle
>
>
>James Carroll <mrmaple at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi Isabelle,
>
>I just downloaded from CVS with the branch tag VTK-5-0 and
>after running CMake with just python bindings, it built without
>any trouble on Windows XP / VS7.
>
>Even though the 5.0 branch is under heavy development I do
>think it's a little safer than CVS HEAD.
>
>-Jim
>
>
>
>
>On 9/12/05, Renaud Isabelle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to use some functions such as vtkParametricFunctionSource,
> > vtkParametricSpline, vtkAlgorithm, and so on.
> >
> > I'm using VTK 4.4 but these files are not included inside. So I downloaded
> > them from CVS. However, I can't manage to build my project.
> >
> > Maybe, addition to having downloaded .h and .cxx files, I also have to
> > rebuild my VTK folder. Is that right?
> >
> > Thanks for answering,
> >
> > Isabelle
> >
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