[vtkusers] How to compile tutorial example?

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>In your Makefile, libraries are mentioned based on lexicographical
>order.  From what I know about the linking process, the order is
>significant;

I don't think that's true anymore for the latest gcc.

Xiaofeng Zhao
www.xzing.org




>From: Obada Mahdi <omahdi at gmx.de>
>To: James Frye <frye at cs.unr.edu>
>CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] How to compile tutorial example?
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:14:01 +0100
>
>Hi James,
>
>here is another hint which might be worth trying.
>
>On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:36 PM, James Frye wrote:
> > Since there is no Makefile, I made a simple one, which I've  included at
> > the end.  The problem is that this gives me about 54K lines of  
>"undefined
> > reference to vtkSomething..." messages.  [...]
>
>[Makefile]
> > LIBS = -L/opt/vtk/lib \
> >        -lvtkCommon -lvtkDICOMParser -lvtkFiltering - 
>lvtkGenericFiltering \
> >        -lvtkGraphics -lvtkHybrid -lvtkIO -lvtkImaging - lvtkMPEG2Encode 
>\
> >        -lvtkNetCDF -lvtkRendering -lvtkVolumeRendering - lvtkWidgets    
>\
> >        -lvtkexoIIc -lvtkexpat -lvtkfreetype -lvtkftgl -lvtkjpeg - 
>lvtkpng \
> >        -lvtksys -lvtktiff -lvtkzlib
>
>In your Makefile, libraries are mentioned based on lexicographical
>order.  From what I know about the linking process, the order is
>significant; undefined symbols are looked up in the libraries in the
>order they are mentioned in the argument list, but (yet unused) symbols
>exported by a library are not remembered for later lookup.
>
>You can check library dependencies by having a look at the file
>"VTKLibraryDepends.cmake", which in your installation should reside
>somewhere in "/opt/vtk/lib/vtk-5.0".  In case this is the cause of your
>"undefined symbols" problem, rearranging the libraries in the argument
>list (so that every library is mentioned _before_ its dependencies)
>should help.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Obada
>
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