[vtkusers] static tcl wrapped vtk link error using mingw

[David Gobbi]

I seem to remember seeing this same thing when I did a static VTK
build, many moons ago.  Google says you need to link to Imm32.lib, you
might need to edit Rendering/CMakeLists.txt or
Wrapping/Tcl/CmakeLists.txt.

  David


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Dean Inglis <dean.inglis at camris.ca> wrote:
> Im statically building vtk 5.7 on win32 Vista with
> mingw/msys and run into the following compile error, (using MinGW
> Makefiles,through CMake 2.8):
>
> Linking CXX executable ..\..\bin\vtk.exe
> Creating library file: ..\..\bin\libvtk.dll.a
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0xe60): undefined reference to `ImmGetContext at 4'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0xe8a): undefined reference to `ImmSetCompositionWindow at 8'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0xe99): undefined reference to `ImmReleaseContext at 8'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1b18): undefined reference to `ImmGetContext at 4'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1b48): undefined reference to `ImmGetCompositionStringW at 16'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1b87): undefined reference to `ImmGetCompositionStringW at 16'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1ca4): undefined reference to `ImmReleaseContext at 8'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1ccd): undefined reference to `ImmGetCompositionStringA at 16'
> d:\Developer\Releases\MinGW\STATIC\TESTCM28\Tcl\lib\libtk85s.a(tkWinX.o):tkWinX.
> c:(.text+0x1cf6): undefined reference to `ImmGetCompositionStringA at 16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> mingw32-make[2]: *** [bin/vtk.exe] Error 1
> mingw32-make[1]: *** [Wrapping/Tcl/CMakeFiles/vtk.dir/all] Error 2
> mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> tcl/tk 8.5 is built statically with mingw32-make.  Any ideas on how to fix
> this?
>
> Dean
>
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>
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