[vtkusers] Cone Example errors Build for Visual Studio

[Bob Palank]

I am making progress  - vtk has been built, and I attempt to run the Sample
Cone Application ..... BUT



Dave P. says " 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. "

 

Space on Drive C is limited  so I have VTK on D: not C:  

  D:\Program Files\VTK\ which contain bin (dlls) lib (.lib) and include (.h)
directories. "

 

My Path variable contains  D:\Program Files\VTK

 

When I rebuild my ConeFor2008 application, I encounter Error 2 below when I 

#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h"  // I have includes
here also

#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkRenderer.h"

#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkPolyDataMapper.h"

#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkProperty.h"

#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkActor.h"       

//                                      No errors with all of the above
active

//==========================================================================
========

// There is a  vtkConeSource.h in the include folder, but



#include "d:\vtk560\include\vtkConeSource.h"  // But this include generates
Error 2 below

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------

Error      2              fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file:
'vtkstd/string': No such file or directory
d:\vtk560\include\vtkStdString.h             25           ConeFor2008

 

 

Any ideas ???

Bob

 

From: Dave Partyka [mailto:dave.partyka at kitware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:49 PM
To: Bob Palank
Cc: John Drescher; vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk Build for Visual Studio

 

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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