[vtkusers] Where are the libraries?

[Jothy]

If you want to use Qt with visual studio, you need to install Qt plug-in for
that specific version of VS. Plug-ins are available from Qt website.

Jothy

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Barney Sperlin <bsperlinus at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi Jothy,
>      I looked at your link and have been following it.  I'm currently at
> the point where I'm building the "install" from the VS IDE.  It is still
> running but I am getting a bunch of errors indicating that it can't find
> "window.h" but I'll wait for the process to finish (an hour??).
>      And, no, I am not building with Qt, but there is a possibility that I
> might get a job in a week or so that involves maintaining a system with both
> Qt and VTK, which is why I'm trying to install and become familiar with
> VTK.  As I understand it, Qt doesn't work on VS 2005 Express (the job is
> with 2008 Express).
>
>      Barney
>
> --- On *Mon, 9/27/10, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Where are the libraries?
> To: "Barney Sperlin" <bsperlinus at yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:14 PM
>
>
> Are you building with Qt?
>
> Did you have a look at the link which I sent?
>
> After pressing configure, if any of the rows are red then you need to fix
> it before proceeding with build.
>
> If any row is red, look into that for errors.
>
> Jothy
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Barney Sperlin <bsperlinus at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jothy, but I think I did this as the text on the GUI says:
> "Current Generator: Visual Studio 8 2005" which seems to be correct.  What
> else could I be doing wrong?
>     Barney
>
> --- On *Mon, 9/27/10, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=jothybasu@gmail.com>
> >* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=jothybasu@gmail.com>
> >
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Where are the libraries?
> To: "Barney Sperlin" <bsperlinus at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com>
> >
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org <http://mc/compose?to=vtkusers@vtk.org>
> Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 11:44 AM
>
>
> I think you have to select VS compiler before configuring the cmake files,
> if you are going to build with visual studio.
>
> After clicking configure it will pop-up a window asking "Specify a
> generator for this project" there you should select the appropriate
> compiler.
>
>
> Jothy
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Barney Sperlin <bsperlinus at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Thanks Jothy,
>      I've loaded in VTK.sln into the IDE and tried to build it.  That also
> gives me errors.  When it comes to VTKCommon it complains about
> 6>Linking...
> 6>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\..\bin\Debug\vtksys.lib'
>
> and there are missing _mingw.h files:
> 7>C:\Program Files\vtk-5.6.0\Common\windows.h(13) : fatal error C1083:
> Cannot open include file: '_mingw.h': No such file or directory
>
> What steps have I skipped?  Is that how to build the libraries?
>      Barney
>
> --- On *Mon, 9/27/10, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=jothybasu@gmail.com>
> >* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=jothybasu@gmail.com>
> >
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Where are the libraries?
> To: "Barney Sperlin" <bsperlinus at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com>
> >
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org <http://mc/compose?to=vtkusers@vtk.org>
> Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 11:16 AM
>
>
> After Configure-->Generate, you have to build the vtk libraries in order to
> use them.
>
> Jothy
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Barney Sperlin <bsperlinus at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
>      I downloaded VTK and CMake, then ran CMake and both "configure" and
> "generate" worked (both said "done" in the lower window of CMake).
>      However, when I ran VS2005 Express with C++ and tried to get the
> project vtk_minimal to work the project compiles but doesn't link, stopping
> on the notice that vtkCommon.lib wasn't found.
>      When I used Windows search it couldn't find it and, actually, I don't
> see any other such libs.  What do I need to do?
>      Barney
>
>
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