[vtkusers] Re: RES: [Paraview] PV 64bit binary for Windows

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Renato N. Elias wrote:
> Wow, I wonder know what you do in VS2005 to compile PV successfully.
> 
> I'm still struggling with such annoying manifest files (it's getting harder
> to understand how to make a simple "hello world" C++ program with VS2005...)
> 
> I should confess that I'm not familiar with C++ issues -- I really love to
> make my simple Fortran programs and I haven't got courage to learn C++ yet
> ;o). In fact, C++ is TOO much for my needs. My point is that it was so
> simple to compile PV with VS2003 that I can't understand why it should be
> different with VS2005? It seems that MS has reinvented the wheel with its
> DLL's fauna that only MS programmers (or master and guru's Visual Studio
> programmers) know how it works.
> 
> My problem is that after compiling PV I don't get success in launching the
> program because it claims for MSVCR80.dll. In a normal Windows program, we
> only need to copy such DLL to the program's directory or just put it in a
> library path in order to have the program working, but with MS2005 it
> couldn't be so simple.
> 
> Therefore, could you tell us what should be done in MS2005 or cmake to have
> a working binary?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Renato.
> 

Hi Renato,

This came up on the list recently... have a look at these threads:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2006-June/085494.html
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2006-October/087542.html

hth

Goodwin