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

[David Marshburn]

in response to several suggestions, i tried the following:

- just hitting 'build' again (the idea being that there is something that 
doesn't work the first time through but that does the second).  no 
improvement.

- turning off VTK_USE_PARALLEL.  (apparently there had been some conflict 
between parallel and java).  no improvement.

- build the class files manually then hit 'build' again.  i did this on 
the command line in cygwin and got the same errors.

i looked in .../vtk/bin/java/vtk/.  the only .java files there are the 
various *Driver.java files, and the build fails on 
vtkJavaCommonDriver.java, claiming unresolved symbols.  this makes sense, 
since the java files for all the vtk classes haven't been created yet.

it seems like the rest of the java files at least need to be generated, if 
not compiled, before VTKBuildAll runs.  if, in visual studio, i add 
dependencies on all the vtk*JavaJavaClasses project, then everything 
continues fine to completion.

i don't know the cmake-ism to create the VTKBuildAll.dsp with dependencies 
on the vtk*JavaJavaClasses projects.  however, since this seems to be a 
solution to a non-unique problem, would it be possible for someone who 
does know something about how cmake creates the .dsp files to make 
VTKBuildAll.dsp have these dependencies, please?  or give me a brief hint 
how to do so or where to look?


-david

> 
> hello,
> 
> 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).
> 
> thaks!
> 
> -david
> 
>