[vtkusers] Compile with Visual Studio 2008

Wed Feb 4 12:15:27 EST 2009

Using CMake is not *required*, it is simply strongly recommended because it
avoids problems exactly like you are seeing right now.
All you need to do is add an include directory so that Visual Studio can
find the file it's looking for.

As Mike Jackson pointed out, though, if you're using an install tree of VTK
and the file is not actually installed, then you've found a bug in VTK's
install rules. Please let us know if that's the case, so we can fix it....

Thanks,
David Cole

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Alon Mozes <amozes77 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've read a bit more about using CMake, and if I understand correctly, we
> would have to re-run CMake only when we change our project settings, not
> every time we build as I mistakenly said before.  This is less painful than
> what I'd thought, but still more difficult than I'd like as project settings
> do change from time to time and we're now incorporating an extra application
> on a semi-regular basis.  I'm very accustomed to dealing with the VS project
> settings format and am a total newbie to the CMake lists.  If you insist
> that CMake is required to getting the project to work, I will invest the
> effort.  Otherwise, I would prefer to simply tweak what was an already
> perfectly functioning project.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/4/09, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>* wrote:
>
> From: David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compile with Visual Studio 2008
> To: "Alon Mozes" <amozes77 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org, "Jim" <jiksed at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 3:45 AM
>
> Are you using CMake to build your project?
>
> The file vtkMFCConfigure.h is in your VTK build tree. If you are using
> CMake to build your project with find_package(VTK) and
> include(${VTK_USE_FILE}) then it should just work....
>
> If you're not using CMake, I would recommend using it for your VTK
> dependent projects. It's much easier. It's probably just a matter of adding
> extra include directories for non-CMake-based projects.
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Alon Mozes <amozes77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>   Maybe I spoke too soon...
>>
>> I'm able to compile VTK now without complaints about MFC.  However, now I
>> try to compile my application and I get an error:
>>
>> 1>C:\Program Files\Vtk-5.2.1-src\GUISupport\MFC\vtkMFCWindow.h(24) : fatal
>> error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkMFCConfigure.h': No such file or
>> directory
>>   I include vtkMFCWindow.h in one of my own project header files, and
>> that in turn includes vtkMFCConfigure.h, but I can't find that file anywhere
>> (I do find a vtkMFCConfigure.h.in <http://vtkmfcconfigure.h.in/> in the
>> vtk source folder).  I am using VTK 5.2.1.  I checked the previous version I
>> was using - VTK 5.0.3 - and the vtkMFCWindow.h file doesn't include
>> vtkMFCConfigure.h.  Instead, it includes vtkConfigure.h, so this seems to be
>> a new change.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  I notice there's an
>> MFC project setting for compiling using Standard Windows, MFC in a shared
>> dll, and MFC in a static library.  This setting is available for both the
>> VTK ALL_BUILD project as well as my own.  I've tried using standard windows
>> and static library with both with no luck.  Maybe this setting matters
>> somehow?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Mon, 2/2/09, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>* wrote:
>>
>> From: David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compile with Visual Studio 2008
>> To: "Alon Mozes" <amozes77 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org, "Jim" <jiksed at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 4:28 AM
>>
>>   Did you not see my response to this thread the other day....?
>>
>>
>>   The first three lines of vtkMFCWindow.cpp are the culprit. They read:
>>   #ifndef WINVER    // Allow use of features specific to Windows 95 and
>> Windows NT 4 or later.
>>   #define WINVER 0x0400
>>   #endif
>>
>>   Remove them or comment them out and it should work ok with VS2008.
>>
>>   Sorry for the inconvenience....
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Alon Mozes <amozes77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Not sure why I had to disable video for windows.  I just know that I
>>> compiled and many errors seems to come from a conflict there (with the vtk
>>> rendering lib if I remember correctly).  I got rid of that and still have
>>> one problem with the MFC lib which I know I need.  Anyone out there compile
>>> VTK with Visual Studio 2008 while keeping the MFC flag?  Is this a problem
>>> with my Windows settings somehow?  My Visual Studio settings?  Or VTK?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alon
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 1/29/09, Jim <jiksed at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Jim <jiksed at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compile with Visual Studio 2008
>>> To: "Alon Mozes" <amozes77 at yahoo.com>, vtkusers at vtk.org
>>> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:14 AM
>>>
>>>
>>>  I am doing the same thing and got a bunch of errors. I wonder why you
>>> have to turn off VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS? Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Alon Mozes <amozes77 at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi All,
>>> I have a great project using VTK/ITK in an older version of Visual
>>> Studio.  I need to upgrade to the latest version of VS (Visual Studio 2008
>>> Professional Edition).  I've found that I must recompile VTK/ITK to properly
>>> do so.  I've started from scratch and installed the latest CMake 2.6 which
>>> offers an option to use the Visual Studio 2008 compiler and VTK 5.2.1.  For
>>> the configuration, I turn on VTK_USE_MFC (via VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT) and
>>> VTK_RENDERING.  Then I compile the ALL_BUILD in Visual Studio and I get
>>> several errors.  I reconfigured CMake to turn off the
>>> VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS and all but one error goes away.  I'm still stuck
>>> with the following failure (which seems to be in the vtkMFC package which I
>>> think is critical for me):
>>>
>>> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\include\sdkddkver.h(217) :
>>> fatal error C1189: #error : _WIN32_WINNT settings conflicts with _WIN32_IE
>>> setting
>>>
>>> When I dig a little, I'm taken to the following lines of code:
>>>
>>> #if
>>> ((_WIN32_WINNT < _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2K) && (_WIN32_IE > _WIN32_IE_IE60SP1))
>>>
>>> #error _WIN32_WINNT settings conflicts with _WIN32_IE setting
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> Its clearly passing this conditional and triggering this error.  The
>>> weird thing is that the first part of the conditional should be 0 (the
>>> values seem to be 0x0600 < 0x0500) so the whole thing should not pass.
>>> What's going on here?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>>
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