[vtkusers] VTK compile errors

[tom walk]

I forgot to change the subject.  Sorry about that and any other errors
I made in my 2 previous emails.  My last email with the correct
subject is below.

Tom

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, tom walk <tcwalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> After working on this myself, I called Kitware and was told that my
> issue could not be solved on the phone and there is no free support
> email other than this mailing list.  Furthermore, I was told to send
> errors and the cmake file.
>
> Perhaps the vtk gods should send consistent messages to us irritating mortals.
>
> If you think that it is annoying to read all of the text I sent, then
> perhaps you can appreciate that making users join and read through the
> list is inefficient for us.  Perhaps you are familiar with tracking
> systems, such as Jira, where users can submit issues and support can
> assign the issues without everybody having to receive everything.
>
> If that is not too blasphemous for the vtkgods, then perhaps we can
> get to my issue.
>
> If anybody can answer my question, I am still interested.
>
> Why is my vtk build in Vista failing when I turn on shared libraries?
>
> This seems to be the key to me, but there may be something else.
>
> vtksys.lib(vtksys.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: int __thiscall
> std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class
> std::allocator<char> >::compare(class std::basic_string<char,struct
> std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &)const "
> (?compare@?$basic_string at DU?$char_traits at D at std@@V?$allocator at
> D at 2@@std@@QBEHABV12@@Z)
> already defined in vtkAbstractArray.obj
>
> Thanks for any attention given my request.  All help is appreciated.
> Let me know what you need to help me.  I am perfectly willing to send
> as little or as much as requested to solve this, and I can write
> outside of the list is so desired.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:15 AM, tom walk <tcwalk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to build VTK with Python, Java, and TCL wrappers.  I  am using
>> the beta version of Visual Studio 10.0 in Vista Ultimate  I start
>> simple with no wrappers and no shared libraries.  It builds and I can
>> run examples, though I don't see vtk.exe.  If I turn on shared
>> libraries, the build fails.
>>
>> I prefer to have shared libraries on and understand that it is
>> necessary for wrapping.  Can somebody help me to solve the errors
>> below.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
> Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question, but you should never
> send that much text to a mailing list, particularly if it is just cut and
> paste from a release file. You will just make people angry. Consider this a
> friendly warning before the wrath of the VTK gods is released.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>