[vtkusers] Unable to port a vtk application to a computer which doesnt have vtk installed.

[rashed karim]

Hi Obada,

Thanks for your help. The windows installer option definitely seems like a
possible solution and thanks for providing me with the links. It came of
great help.

I had a question, for a quick dirty solution, if I did try copying the vtk
DLLs, where can I find them. I have looked everywhere in my vtk installation
folder but cant find them.

Thanks again,
Rashed

On 11/22/06, Obada Mahdi <omahdi at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Rashed,
>
> On 11/22/06, rashed karim <rashed.vtk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I have written an application in visual c++ which uses VTK. After
> compiling
> > it produces an .exe which runs fine. But, when I copy-paste the .exe
> file of
> > this application to another computer which doesn't have VTK compiled and
> > installed, it doesn't work.
>
> there is (in general) more to a "clean" deployment of a project than
> just manually copying some files.  For example, when you are linking
> your project against the shared runtime libraries from Visual Studio,
> those libraries need to be distributed with your project as well, in
> addition to the VTK libraries (if you are building shared VTK
> libraries), because other systems might just not have those exact
> libraries installed.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not know all too much about deploying programs
> created with Visual Studio--this might be a starting point for more
> general information:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/zebw5zk9(VS.80).aspx
>
> It might also be a good idea to try CPack, which is a tool that comes
> with CMake, and is meant "to abstract package generation on specific
> platforms":
>
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Packaging_With_CPack
>
> I actually do not know anything about it, but I am sure that, either
> here or in the CMake users mailing list, there are many people who
> know more about this stuff and can assist you :-)
>
> > It is what I had expected, so I copied all .lib
> > files (such as vtkHybrid.lib, vtkVolumeRendering.lib, etc) to that
> computer,
> > and it still doesnt work.
>
> If you are using shared libraries, what needs to be distributes along
> with the ".exe" are the "*.dll" files, not "*.lib".  You can try to
> copy the DLLs, but like mentioned above, there is no guarantee that
> this will be enough.
>
> > How can I make my application on the other computer work?
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated,
>
> Hopefully more experienced developers will jump in here :-)
>
>
> Obada
>
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