[vtkusers] Problem with reading files

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Hamilton Woods <ghw at accutrol.com> wrote:
>
>> I see your problem from your other email last week.You installed vtk.
>> If you install you can not switch between debug and release. If you do
>> not install VTK but build all (for both debug and release) you can
>> safely switch between debug and release. When you build an application
>> set the VTK_DIR in cmake-gui to the location of your VTK build folder.
>
>> Perhaps someone (possibly me) should fix the wiki to give better advice.
>
> Well, where is the better advice?  Just kidding.  I find this mailing list
> to
> be indispensable (I can't imagine using VTK without it!).
>
> I have built VTK from source using Visual Studio 2005 on the Windows XP
> Pro operating system.  I built for release and then debug.  Then I used
> CMake to create a Visual Studio project from the DumpXMLFile example.
> I built DumpXMLFile for release.  It worked.  Then I built DumpXMLFile for
> debug.  When I ran the executable, it produces the exception "Unhandled
> exception at 0x78484f3f in DumpXMLFile.exe: 0xC0000005: Access
> violation reading location 0x99999997."
>
> As is suggested in the previous post, I made sure that VTK_DIR was set
> to the location of your VTK build folder in cmake-gui.  I even attempted
> to modify VTK_DIR so that it pointed directly to the VTK debug folder,
> but I could not generate DumpXMLFile with that setting.
>
> I could probably move past this problem because I do not need to
> determine the data file extension, but I am concerned that I will run into
> this problem somewhere else.  Therefore, I would like to understand
> how to use VTK in debug mode and release mode.
>

Did you delete the installed location of VTK?

John