[vtkusers] Static Qt and static VTK - is it possible?

[Dave Partyka]

Yeah, thats what I thought, I am just going to disable that plugin if doing
a static build. The tiff errors I believe are symbols that weren't mangled
as you said, so I'll take a stab at those.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Michael Jackson <
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Gib Bogle wrote:
>
>  Quoting Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com>:
>>
>>  Hi Gib,
>>>
>>> I have recreated similar compile errors while building static vtk against
>>> static qt with Visual Studio 10 and Qt 4.7. I am not entirely positive
>>> but I
>>> suspect that QVTKWidgetPlugin shouldn't be built when doing a static
>>> build.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I wondered about that.  Is there a way for a user like me to exclude it?
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>  I am also getting some tiff symbol redefinitions that I will look into
>>> fixing.
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Yes, I got those too.  I experimented a bit with the configure options for
>> including libtiff, but nothing good came of it, and I gave up on static Qt
>> for now.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Gib
>>
>>
> I am fairly sure of the following: If you build a static Qt then you can
> not load plugins. I believe this is somewhere in the Qt Documentation.
> Therefor, if you have a static Qt, then Qt Designer can not load the
> QVTKWidgetPlugin that is compiled by VTK. Also, since both VTK and Qt use
> libTiff compiling Static should cause conflicts of symbols although I
> thought that VTK did something to the symbol names during configuration to
> add a _vtk prefix to all the method names but I may be wrong. Tried this a
> few years back and finally gave up and went with dynamic libraries all
> around. Of course I had the luxury of being able to do this.
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