[vtkusers] brand new need help...

[Mark Wyszomierski]

are you sure in the 'code generation' settings that you're using the
same runtime library that you compiled VTK with (ie. they should both
be Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) or whatever you need,

Mark

On 8/31/07, Trevis Crane <trevis.crane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm brand new to VTK.  I got the user's guide from KitWare and am playing
> with the first example -- the cone example.  In order to do this example, I
> have to run CMake to create the .dsw workspace for Visual C++ 6.0 (this is
> the IDE I'm working in).  Then I can compile it and run it and everything's
> hunky dorey (sort of).
>
> However, this seems like a lot of overhead to use VTK.  For example, using
> the Boost libraries only requires that you make the pre-compiled libraries
> and then tell the compiler where to look for them.  So, I wanted to try this
> with vtk.
>
> I started a new workspace, copied the cone.cpp file into my new workspace,
> told the linker where to find the vtk binaries and gave it the path for
> additional include directories.  For both of these I copy/pasted the same
> paths that the workspace created by my use of CMake for the example used.
>
> It didn't work.  I end up several link errors -- the error messages from the
> compiler are shown below.
>
> So, my question to you more experienced users is, should I always use CMake?
>  If not, then how do I (easily) set up my workspace to allow for the use of
> the vtk libraries?
>
> thanks for any help you can provide,
> trevis
>
>
> Linking...
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _exit already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(crt0dat.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _free already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll ) : error LNK2005: _malloc already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _sprintf already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(sprintf.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _abort already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(abort.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _strncpy already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(strncpy.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _strchr already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(strchr.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib( MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _strstr already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(strstr.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _tolower already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(tolower.obj)
> MSVCRT.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _realloc already defined in
> LIBCD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
> LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib "MSVCRT" conflicts with use of other
> libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
> Debug/cone.exe : fatal error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols
> found
> Error executing link.exe.
>
> cone.exe - 11 error(s), 1 warning(s)
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