[vtkusers] Solving general issues in compiling VTK with Java Wrapping on Windows !

[egk865 at yahoo.com]

I've never had any problems running vtk with java wrappers on other
machines without visual c++, even when built with the Express Edition
(2008 version). Just make sure to copy over the C runtime libraries as
well. What sort of errors were you getting with the visual c++ build?

Eli

--- On Tue, 4/20/10, Benoît Thiébault <thiebault at artenum.com> wrote:

> From: Benoît Thiébault <thiebault at artenum.com>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Solving general issues in compiling VTK with Java Wrapping on Windows !
> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:26 AM
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am currently trying to compile VTK 5.4.2 with Java
> wrapping on Windows and have some problems.
> 
> When I first compiled it with Visual C++, the compile
> version only worked on machines where Visual C++ was
> installed, which is quite not what I expected :-)
> 
> So I followed what Sebastien explained on this list a year
> ago, installed Embarcadero C++ Builder (previously Borland
> C++ Builder), converted the jawt.lib library with coff2omf,
> configured CMake with the Borland Makefile generator and
> launched the "make" command.
> 
> Unfortunately, the compilation ended up at xx% with the
> following error message (approximately translated from
> French): 
> Embarcadero C++ 6.21 for Win32
> C:\vtk-5.4.2\IO\vtkFLUENTReader.cxx 2194: Insufficient
> memory in vtkFLUENTReader::LoadVariableNames() function
> 
> Can anyone tell me what went wrong and how to solve it ?
> 
> Thank you
> Benoit
> 
> P.S.: I attached my CMakeCache.txt file to the mail so you
> can see my CMake configuration
> 
> 
> 
> > Sebastien Jourdain
> > Wed May 27 17:16:21 EDT 2009
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> > I've finally found a solution to my previous issues
> where I wanted to  
> > produced a VTK for windows with Java wrapping that
> could work on any  
> > Windows of the same kind.
> > 
> > First of all : Never use Visual Studio Express (any
> version) if you  
> > want to distribute your code. It won't work on the
> targeted windows if  
> > they don't have a Visual Studio Express installed.
> > 
> > Therefore you have to use a C++ compiler that allow
> redistribution of  
> > the produced binary. I've used the Borland one. But
> the compilation  
> > was not strait forward. I had to convert the file
> jawt.lib with a tool  
> > provided with borland called coff2mof and used the
> converted file in  
> > the CMake for the compilation.
> > 
> > Once the compilation is done and works locally it has
> a great chance  
> > that it won't work on Windows that don't have C++
> tools.
> > 
> > To solved the portability issue, I've used the
> "Dependency Walker"  
> > tool to look into the dll files and check the missing
> one. And I've  
> > found that the vtkCommon was using the cc3280mt.dll
> that was on the  
> > computer used for the compilation but not on standard
> Windows. So I've  
> > added the file in my VTK package inside the bin
> directory with the  
> > other VTK dll's.
> > 
> > At this point you are quite close to success ! But, on
> some computer  
> > you might get an error during the loading of the
> vtkRendering library  
> > specially if you use a script that append on the head
> or at the tail  
> > of the PATH the directory that contains the vtk dll
> before launching  
> > your java application.
> > 
> > To solved this last error I've made a script that
> override the whole  
> > PATH environment variable with only the directory that
> own the VTK dll  
> > and a full path to the java executable of the JRE to
> execute my  
> > application.
> > 
> > like :
> > set PATH=..\vtk
> > c:\jre1.6\bin\java -cp .;..\vtk.jar 
> your.package.name.MainClass
> > 
> > Instead of :
> > set PATH=..\vtk;%PATH%
> > java -cp .;..\vtk.jar 
> your.package.name.MainClass
> > 
> > And know, it works on all the 5 computer that I could
> used for my  
> > test. Of course I can't guaranty that it is the
> absolute solution, but  
> > right know, for me, it seems to work !
> > 
> > I would like to thanks Frederic Danesi who give me
> some good clues on  
> > my issues after that I've posted on the VTK mailing
> list. (He directly  
> > replied to me in french ;-)
> > 
> > So, I hope this could help someone someday...
> > 
> > Sebastien Jourdain
> > 
> > 
> 
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