[vtkusers] vtkStandardNewMacro problems with MSVC9

[Dominik Szczerba]

Yea I had a detailed look at vtkWin32Header.h and it should do as you say - 
and as I do.
Looks to me like this is somehow broken with MSVS 9 2008 on derived classes - 
was it tested with the new version?

with regards,
Dominik

On Saturday 18 October 2008 12:09:47 am Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> I am using:
>
> class VTK_GRAPHICS_EXPORT vtkThreshold2 : public
> vtkUnstructuredGridAlgorithm ...
>
> and I thought VTK_GRAPHICS_EXPORT does what you say, or do I miss anything?
>
> Dominik
>
> On Friday 17 October 2008 11:49:03 pm Karthik Krishnan wrote:
> > My guess is that you might be trying to use the classes on
> > windows without exporting them... the __declspec(dllimport) /
> > export thingie.
> >
> > You must explicitly export the classes and the global functions
> > to be made publicly accessible.
> >
> > See how VTK_FILTERING_EXPORT is used for instance... On unix,
> > this expands to nothing.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>
>
> wrote:
> > > Compiling and linking to standard VTK classes work fine.
> > >
> > > As soon as I start using my own algorithms (e.g. derived from
> > > vtkUnstructuredGridAlgorithm) I get linking problems about unresolved
> > > New(), which I trace down to vtkStandardNewMacro. I see this macro goes
> > > very deep and suggests that so created objects must be somehow
> > > registered, but on linux the same code works just fine. What am I doing
> > > wrong?
> > >
> > > with regards,
> > > Dominik
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computational Physics Group
Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society
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