[vtkusers] vtkStandardNewMacro problems with MSVC9

[Michael Jackson]

Take a look at the following wiki example:

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/BuildingWinDLL

It should tell you everything you need to know.

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Dominik Szczerba wrote:

> I am building it externally, without recompiling VTK (5.2.0).
>
> DSZ
>
> On Saturday 18 October 2008 12:24:11 am Francois Bertel wrote:
>> Where are you putting this class? in VTK/Graphics or in some external
>> project?
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch 
>> >
> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
>>>>>> Computational Physics Group
>>>>>> Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society
>>>>>> http://www.itis.ethz.ch
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> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
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> Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society
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