[vtkusers] visual studio 2008 and v6.0a sdk missing glaux.h

[Shekhar Chandra]

Hi Guys,

I used VTK 5.0.3 on Vista Ultimate x64 using VC++ 2005 Express SP1. I 
have tried both the Vista SDK 6.0 and Vista SDK Feb Update with the same 
results. I had to build it on this system by using the Platform SDK R2 
in 32-bit.

I will try out this change to see if it succeeds using Vista SDK.

Cheers
Shakes

Francois Bertel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It sounds totally legacy code to me. There is definitively no code
> depending on glaux in VTK. In addition, Rendering/vtkOpenGL.h itself
> has a statement for windows. By the way, you did not tell which
> version of VTK you are using.
> 
> On your local copy of the source tree, in
> vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, remove all the following lines, just
> keep # include "vtkOpenGL.h":
> 
> Before:
> 
>  #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined (__BORLANDC__)
>  # include "vtkWindows.h"
>  # include <GL/glaux.h>
>  #else
>  # include "vtkOpenGL.h"
>  #endif
> 
> After:
> 
> # include "vtkOpenGL.h"
> 
> Let me know if it works for you. I'll try tomorrow on some Windows
> machine (XP SP2+VS7). If it works, I will commit the change and  check
> for any other Windows version/compiler version combination on the
> dashboard (notably VS6 and Borland). Once it is done, we will probably
> patch VTK-5.0 branch too.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 10/2/07, Shekhar Chandra <Shekhar.Chandra at sci.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> I believe the Vista SDK (v6.0) no longer supports the GLAUX library, the
>> earlier Platform SDK do though. You can replicate the same error by
>> using VC 2005 Express with Vista SDK. Vista SDK Update supports all
>> Windows and is most likely whats installed with VS 2008?
>>
>> Which one do you have installed? Not sure what part of VTK uses GLAUX,
>> apparently this is no longer supported by almost everyone and GLUT
>> should be used instead. I'm not an expert in this. Is there a way of
>> using GLUT instead in VTK or by using Defines? As this will cause issues
>> with Vista and future Windows builds.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Shakes
>>
>> Jon W wrote:
>>> Microsoft compilers prior to Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 installed a
>>> platform sdk with the files used by the vtk build:
>>>   gl.h
>>>   glaux.h
>>>   glu.h
>>>
>>> With the Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 installation the glaux.h file is no
>>> longer included which breaks the vtk build with the following error:
>>>
>>> \vtk\Rendering\vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow.cxx(34) : fatal error C1083:
>>> Cannot open include file: 'GL/glaux.h': No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Here is the code in vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow.cxx:
>>>   #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined (__BORLANDC__)
>>>   # include "vtkWindows.h"
>>>   # include <GL/glaux.h>
>>>   #else
>>>   # include "vtkOpenGL.h"
>>>   #endif
>>>
>>> Has anybody tried building with the Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 compiler?
>>>  Are there any plans to work around the missing glaux.h?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Jon
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