[vtkusers] vtk Build for Visual Studio

[Dave Partyka]

If you build the entire solution or the ALL_BUILD project, everything should
get built. You should get dlls if you turned BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON in the
cmake gui.

Once you have successfully built everything, building the INSTALL project
should give you a directory under C:\Program Files\VTK\ which contain bin
(dlls) lib (.lib) and include (.h) directories.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Bob Palank <bob at stlcc.org> wrote:

> Once I'm done I want VTK 560 content for three folders - bin (holding
> dlls),
> Include (for all header files) and a Lib folder for all lib files.  I'll
> move the files into the correct folders on my own.
> Building vtk apps requires the include and lib folders and application
> execution is dependent on the dlls.  In coding , I use explicit includes
> and
> pragmas ( e.g.
>
> #pragma comment(lib, "d:\\vtk560\\Lib\\vtkRendering.lib")
>
> Now the question in VS 2008 do I right click and build on INSTALL or
> ALL_BUILD?
> As of now I have everything I need except there are no dlls- not in debug
> nor release.
> Does the VS2008 Build generate the dlls ? ?
> TIA
>   Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:36 PM
> To: Bob Palank
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk Build for Visual Studio
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Upon a VS 2008 Build completion, should I expect to see a collection of
> dll
> >> files?
> >
> > If you enabled shared lib building when you configured that then yes.
> > I believe this is the default.
> >
> >> If so, where?
> >
> > In the build folder (that you configured) there will be a bin/debug
> > and bin/release ...
> >
>
> BTW, when you are building under Visual Studio do not build the
> install target (like some guides tell you) that will only cause
> problems with debugging because when you install the .dll names are
> the same for debug and release so with the name collision you have to
> choose to install debug or release instead of being able to use either
> in a normal development process. For CMake based applications instead
> you tell them where your VTK_DIR is and that location is the root
> where you had your build created.
>
> John
>
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