[vtkusers] VTK 5.0 build problem; VTKBuildAll, custom rules

[David Marshburn]

thanks for the replies, all!

a second build does not get any further than the first; clicking 'build' 
again results in the same errors.


it looks like CMake ends up trying to parse .java files instead of .rule 
files (or some other files).  do i understand correctly that that is the 
immediate problem resulting in these errors?  that's not normally what 
CMake does, is it?  (cmake wouldn't look at java or c++ files, would it?)

-david


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, David Cole wrote:

> I have also seen this on VS 7.1 when doing a "first build"... It 
> normally does not happen when doing the "second and later" builds...
> 
> Does it succeed if you click build again...?
> 
> What this and the occasional lack of successful parallel make indicates 
> to me is that there's some sort of a problem with the java wrapper 
> dependencies that are specified in VTK's CMakeLists somewhere. If 
> anybody can track this down and recommend a fix that works for all 
> Visual Studios and all parallel make implementations (and then prove 
> it!!) I'd be happy to buy that genius lunch at the restaurant of his or 
> her choice...
> 
> :-)
> David Cole
> 
> 
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
> > David,
> >
> >     I have seen this error happening, but only when building VTK in 
> > parallel. I believe that VS6 cannot do parallel build. But just to be 
> > on the safe side, could you try building again (just click: 'Build 
> > Project'  in your VS6 env).
> >
> > HTH
> > Mathieu
> >
> > David Marshburn wrote:
> >>
> >> while building vtk 5.0 in MS visual studio 6, i see the following error:
> >>
> >> --------------------Configuration: VTKBuildAll - Win32 
> >> RelWithDebInfo--------------------
> >> Building Custom Rule ..\..\java\vtk\vtkBuildAllDriver.class.rule
> >> D:\nsrc\vtk50\bin\java\vtk\..\vtk\vtkVTKJavaCommonDriver.java:11: 
> >> cannot resolve symbol
> >> symbol  : class vtkAbstractArray location: class 
> >> vtk.vtkVTKJavaCommonDriver
> >>     dummy = new vtkAbstractArray();
> >>                 ^
> >>
> >> (and 99 more errors of the same format afterwards).
> >>
> >> can anyone decipher what's going on or what this means, please?  i 
> >> don't know what to make of this or even where to start looking. 
> >> vtkBuildAllDriver.class.rule is empty (save for a comment that it was 
> >> generated from CMake).
> >>