[vtkusers] Use VS2005-VTK in VS2008

[Shakes]

Hi Guys,

I use VS2008 Express with 5.2.1 on XP/Vista (x64 and x86 versions) fine 
with TCL and MFC OFF and Qt ON. Perhaps a MFC issue?

Cheers
Shakes

Jim wrote:
> John and Michael,
>  
> Thank you for your concerns. As John quoted, I could build VTK 5.2.1 and 
> examples on VS 2008 Pro + Windows XP, however, all examples failed to 
> run (no images rendered). However, everything worked fine with VS2005 
> Standard on the same computer.
>  
> FYI, I had Wrap_TCL=ON, USE_MFC=ON, USE_QT=ON. Any conflict in my 
> configurations? I will turn off USE_MFC and try it again with VS2008 
> because I will never use MFC.
>  
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> --- On *Mon, 3/9/09, John Drescher /<drescherjm at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Use VS2005-VTK in VS2008
>     To: "Michael Jackson" <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>, "VTK"
>     <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>     Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:08 PM
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Michael Jackson
>     <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>     >
>     > On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:21 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>     >
>     >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Jim <jiksed at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> Thank you. John. I would prefer to compile/build my VTK
>     application in
>     >>> VS2008 Pro Edition. My VS2005 is a standard edition which lacks
>     some key
>     >>> features. Will this configuration work fine?
>     >>>
>     >> I have found that you can not mix and match libraries from different
>     >> versions of visual studio in the same project.
>     >>
>     >> John
>     >
>     > I use VS2008 Express with VTK just fine. What problems were you having?
>     >
>     Here is what I can get from the thread about vs2008 problems he was having:
> 
>     I built vtk-5.2.1 and c++
>      examples in VS2008 without any errors. My TCL examples run fine.
>     However, when I ran Arrays.exe or Cube.exe, I didn't see anything
>     rendered on the screen, and no error messages either. I tried both
>     BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF and ON, and I also tried both Debug and Release
>     builds. It didn't make any difference. I am completely lost. Someone
>     please help me out. Thank you.
> 
>     John
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