[vtkusers] Linking to VTK static libraries on Windows

[Gib Bogle]

Maybe it's an issue with how I built the VTK libraries.  I wasn't sure if I 
should select VTK_USE_SYSTEM_PNG, _JPEG,_ZLIB and _TIFF, so I didn't.  In 
general I don't understand these VTK_USE_SYSTEM_* flags.

On 15/10/2010 12:35 p.m., Dave Partyka wrote:
> Are you linking vtkCommon and vtkFiltering as well?
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz
> <mailto:g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
>
>     I have built VTK libraries statically, with MSVS 2005.  I'm having trouble
>     linking the libraries to my Qt application.  I have included in the build
>     all the VTK libraries that seem to be possibly needed (using Dependency
>     Walker), but still I get these errors:
>
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkBMPWriter * __cdecl
>     vtkBMPWriter::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkBMPWriter@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced in
>     function "public: void __thiscall MyVTK::saveSnapshot(class QString,class
>     QString)" (?saveSnapshot at MyVTK@@QAEXVQString@@0 at Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkTIFFWriter * __cdecl
>     vtkTIFFWriter::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkTIFFWriter@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced
>     in function "public: void __thiscall MyVTK::saveSnapshot(class QString,class
>     QString)" (?saveSnapshot at MyVTK@@QAEXVQString@@0 at Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkJPEGWriter * __cdecl
>     vtkJPEGWriter::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkJPEGWriter@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced
>     in function "public: void __thiscall MyVTK::saveSnapshot(class QString,class
>     QString)" (?saveSnapshot at MyVTK@@QAEXVQString@@0 at Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkPNGWriter * __cdecl
>     vtkPNGWriter::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkPNGWriter@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced in
>     function "public: void __thiscall MyVTK::saveSnapshot(class QString,class
>     QString)" (?saveSnapshot at MyVTK@@QAEXVQString@@0 at Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: void __thiscall
>     vtkWindowToImageFilter::SetInput(class vtkWindow *)"
>     (__imp_?SetInput at vtkWindowToImageFilter@@QAEXPAVvtkWindow@@@Z) referenced in
>     function "public: void __thiscall MyVTK::saveSnapshot(class QString,class
>     QString)" (?saveSnapshot at MyVTK@@QAEXVQString@@0 at Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkTextSource * __cdecl
>     vtkTextSource::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkTextSource@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced
>     in function "public: static class vtkSmartPointer<class vtkTextSource>
>     __cdecl vtkSmartPointer<class vtkTextSource>::New(void)"
>     (?New@?$vtkSmartPointer at VvtkTextSource@@@@SA?AV1 at XZ)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkWindowToImageFilter * __cdecl
>     vtkWindowToImageFilter::New(void)"
>     (__imp_?New at vtkWindowToImageFilter@@SAPAV1 at XZ) referenced in function
>     "public: __thiscall MyVTK::MyVTK(class QWidget *)"
>     (??0MyVTK@@QAE at PAVQWidget@@@Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: int __thiscall
>     vtkCellArray::InsertNextCell(class vtkCell *)"
>     (__imp_?InsertNextCell at vtkCellArray@@QAEHPAVvtkCell@@@Z) referenced in
>     function "public: __thiscall MyVTK::MyVTK(class QWidget *)"
>     (??0MyVTK@@QAE at PAVQWidget@@@Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkCylinderSource * __cdecl
>     vtkCylinderSource::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkCylinderSource@@SAPAV1 at XZ)
>     referenced in function "public: __thiscall MyVTK::MyVTK(class QWidget *)"
>     (??0MyVTK@@QAE at PAVQWidget@@@Z)
>     1>myvtk.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>     "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkSphereSource * __cdecl
>     vtkSphereSource::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkSphereSource@@SAPAV1 at XZ)
>     referenced in function "public: __thiscall MyVTK::MyVTK(class QWidget *)"
>     (??0MyVTK@@QAE at PAVQWidget@@@Z)
>     1>release\bone_GUI.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 10 unresolved externals
>
>     Looking at the errors for the image writers (vtkBMPWriter etc), for example,
>     I'm puzzled because I have included vtkIO.lib and vtkjpeg.lib, vtkpng.lib,
>     vtktiff.lib and vtkzlib.lib.  What am I missing?
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