[vtkusers] Use VS2005-VTK in VS2008

[Michael Jackson]

Not sure about shared or static. I built shared libs for Qt 4.4.3 and  
use those. Not sure if static would work. Best I can say if no one  
else actually can answer is to try both.

My gut says static will not work but that is a guess based off of  
possible wrong information.

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Mike Jackson                 www.bluequartz.net



On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jim wrote:

>
> Thank you, Michael. After numerous builds, I found that  
> VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN=ON failed executation of C++ examples. My OS is  
> Win32 XP.
>
> I have a new question on using VTK with Qt. Do I have to have a  
> shared build of VTK for integration of VTK into Qt?
>
> Thank you.
> Jim
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/9/09, Mike Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> From: Mike Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Use VS2005-VTK in VS2008
> To: "VTK" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Cc: imikejackson at gmail.com
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 6:54 PM
>
> Some of this will be "well know" to those "in the know" but
> for the rest of us here is my quick journey into vtk 5.2.1 with VS  
> 2008 Express.
>
> Create your build directory as usual.
>
> 1: Run CMake on the vtk sources as usual.
> BUILD_TESTING=OFF
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
> BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON
> VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT=ON.
> Clicke Configure.
> Select VTK_USE_QVTK=ON and VTK_USE_RENDERING=ON.
> Click Configure.
> Click Generate.
>
> Build vtk using VS 2008. Wait a while till complete.
>
> Find the Cube.exe and launch it from a command prompt. A window will  
> appear
> with the 3D cube in it.
>
> Trying to use the "VTK_USE_MFC" will fail because the VS 2008 Express
> does not come with the MFC Headers and Libraries and Headers. The  
> build will
> fail because it can not find the afxwin.h header file.
>
> I happened to have Qt 4.4.3 installed (I think I built that myself)  
> so I turned
> on the Qt support in order to be able to have some sort of  
> rendering. This
> turned out to work just fine.
>
> What I did _not_ do to match your installation was all the tcl  
> stuff. I
> don't have a tcl/tk installation on this machine so I can not test  
> that but
> since I was able to build and run successfully the Cube.cxx example  
> I think that
> is enough to show that you can build and run VTK 5.2.1 with the  
> Visual Studio
> 2008 Express edition.
>
> Last note: I am downloading the Platform SDK for Windows that one  
> can install
> in addition to the visual studio express in order to compile MFC  
> applications. I
> have not tried this approach since the Qt approach worked just fine.
>
> Hope some/all of that helps.
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>
> Shakes wrote:
> > 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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