[vtkusers] VTK with visual Studio 2005

[Yianis Nikolaou]

hi oleg,

I believe the easiest way to use VTK is by creating your projects using
CMake, like you did with the VTK source. Creating CMakeList.txt files for
your own projects is quite easy, I hope the following example helps:

PROJECT (your_Project_name)

#############
#vtk section
#############
INCLUDE (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindVTK.cmake)
IF (USE_VTK_FILE)
  INCLUDE(${USE_VTK_FILE})
ENDIF (USE_VTK_FILE)

#################################
#MFC section, if you are using MFC
#################################
ADD_DEFINITIONS(-D_AFXDLL)
SET(CMAKE_MFC_FLAG 2)


ADD_EXECUTABLE(your_Project_name WIN32
#your source files go here
#your_Project_name.cpp
#your_Project_name.h
#etc
#etc
)


TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(your_Project_name
  vtkRendering
  vtkGraphics
  vtkIO
  vtkFiltering
  vtkCommon
  vtkWidgets
)

Save the above lines as CMakelist.txt in your directory and modify it
according to your needs. You should modify the link libraries section if you
want to use other features of VTK, but i think these libraries will cover
your initial tests. Then run CMake as you did when you created the VTK
project.

hope this helps,
yianis


On 12/4/06, Oleg Pianykh <opiany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I downloaded VTK and run CMake 2.4 to build the .sln file for my Visual
> Studio.
> Then I was able to compile VTK with Visual Studio, worked fine.
>
> Now I'd like to test some sample VTL code, or write mine, BUT
> 1. Which VTK .h files should I include, with which static .lib VTK
> libraries? I do not see any single VTK include folder or file - do I do this
> by trial and error?
> 2. As soon as I add something like
>
> #include "vtkConeSource.h"
>
> to my program, I immediately get an error message from the Visual Studio
> compiler about
>
> #cmakedefine
>
> being an illegal preprocessor directive. Did I do something wrong with
> CMake (I changes a few settings there, following instructions from one VTK
> posting about CMake that I found online)? If I replace #cmakedefine with
> #define in vtkConfig.h file, this error message disappears, but i get an
> avalanche of other errors.
>
> What am I doing wrong, and what is the simplest way to run at least one
> VTK sample source code to get started?
>
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