[vtkusers] Recipe for building VTK-5.6.1 with C++ Builder XE (bcc32 6.31)

[Oliver Weinheimer]

Recipe for building VTK-5.6.1 with C++ Builder XE (bcc32 6.31)
(Tested on Win 7)

[A] Download vtk-5.6.1.zip

[B] Download and installation of cmake 2.8.3

[C] Running CMake 
	Changing Options:
	- CMake_Build_Type Release or Debug
	- All Compiler and Linker Flags -tWM changed to -tM and -tWC (windows
console app) added
	- Optionally add -tR for compiling with RTL, or -tD for comiling as Shared
Lib)
	- Don't mark 'BUILD_SHARED_LIBS' in CMake

[D] Open cmd.exe in Vtk binaries directory and type in "make"

[E] Compilation and linking: Fix Errors

a)
Embarcadero C++ 6.31 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Embarcadero
Technologies, 

Inc.
E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\Utilities\vtknetcdf\attr.c:
Error E2176 E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\Utilities\vtknetcdf\utf8proc.h 70: Too many
types 

in declaration
Error E2146 E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\Utilities\vtknetcdf\utf8proc.h 70: Need an 

identifier to declare

-> add 
# define HAVE__BOOL to utf8proc.h

(because XE was shipped without stdbool.h, but bool is defined elsewhere) 

b)
E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\Utilities\vtknetcdf\posixio.c:
Error E2209 E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\Utilities\vtknetcdf\posixio.c 21: Unable to
open 

include file 'unistd.h'

#ifdef _MSC_VER 
changed to 
#ifdef __BORLANDC__
in line 18

c)
vtkExtractSelectedIds.cxx

all lines with
static_cast<VTK_TT1>((static_cast<VTK_TT2*>(labelVoid)[labelArrayIndex])));
changed to
static_cast<VTK_TT1*>(labelVoid)[labelArrayIndex]);

(not sure if this is semantically correct, but it compiles)

d)
vtkYoungsMaterialInterface.h
#ifdef __BCPLUSPLUS__
#include <malloc.h>
#endif
at line 51, after:
(forum entry of Alessandro Martini)

e)
Fatal F1008 E:\Kitware\vtk-5.6.1\IO\vtkFLUENTReader.cxx 2346: Out of memory
in 

function vtkFLUENTRea
der::LoadVariableNames()

I excluded (because i never needed this classes until now: 
vtkFLUENTReader.cxx
vtkOpenFOAMReader.cxx

f)
Added
#include <ctype.h>
to
\Kitware\VTK-5.6.0\IO\vtkArrayReader.cxx

because isspace was not found

g)
last line in cmd:
[100%] Built target vtkCharts 
-> :-)

[F]
[Building vtkBorlandRenderWindowPkg.bpk in C++ Builder XE IDE

Set system variables VTK_SOURCE and VTK_BIN

Open C++ Builder IDE

New Package

Add to Project vtkBorlandRenderWindowPkg.cpp 

Add to Include Path in C++ Builder IDE 
$(VTK_SOURCE)\Common
$(VTK_SOURCE)\Rendering
$(VTK_SOURCE)\Filtering
$(VTK_BIN)
$(VTK_BIN)\Rendering;

#include <vcl\Sysutils.hpp>
changed to 
#include <Sysutils.hpp>
in vtkBorlandRenderWindow.cpp

Add to Project VTK-libs
vtkCommon.lib
vtksys.lib
vtkRendering.lib 
vtkFiltering.lib

Make Project

Component->Install Packages Add vtkBorlandRenderWindowPkg.bpl
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