[vtkusers] Building with VS 2008, many .lib files missing; can't link properly

[Blaine]

Hello vtkusers,

As a last resort, I'm bumping this. Does anyone have any suggestions? If
not, I will have to try something else.

All I really need to do is build our project source that uses vtk. I
downloaded the binary VTK install for windows but I didn't see any header
files (library only) so I couldn't build against it. I'm from the linux
world, so what I really want to do is install the equivalent of (I think)
libvtk5-qt4-dev

My only real requirement is QT compatibility. Is there a binary with Qt
available that also includes the header files? Otherwise I'll probably just
need to pull out all the headers manually from the vtk source tree for my
project to build against, and hope it runs with the binary library I
installed, but that seems a bit unclean.

Thanks!
Blaine


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Blaine <frikker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone! I'll make this brief because it's probably a simple error on
> my part.
>
> I downloaded VTK, ran the cmake-gui and configured QT support (and disabled
> the examples), and output the build as a "VS 2009" project file. I opened
> the project and did a "build all" on VTK. Most of the sub-projects went
> fine, but 14 of them can't link properly. They are trying to link against
> VTK .lib files that don't exist (but they probably should exist). For
> example, vtkverdict.lib doesn't exist even though vtkverdict compiles and
> links successfully.
>
> Here's what I did:
> BUILD_EXAMPLES off
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS  on
> BUILD_TESTING  off
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX  set to location for make install
> QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE  should be set, otherwise point to qmake
> VTK_USE_QT  on
>
> Any suggestions?
> Blaine
>
> Output from, for example, a rebuild of vtkverdict (vtkverdict.dll *does*
> exist so it's strange that the build thinks it does not exist)
> ------ Rebuild All started: Project: vtkverdict, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'vtkverdict',
> configuration 'Debug|Win32'
> Building Custom Rule C:/Documents and Settings/blaine/My
> Documents/work/VTK/Utilities/verdict/CMakeLists.txt
> CMake does not need to re-run because C:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Utilities\verdict\CMakeFiles\generate.stamp is
> up-to-date.
> Compiling...
> V_WedgeMetric.cpp
> VerdictVector.cpp
> V_TriMetric.cpp
> V_TetMetric.cpp
> V_QuadMetric.cpp
> V_PyramidMetric.cpp
> V_KnifeMetric.cpp
> V_HexMetric.cpp
> V_GaussIntegration.cpp
> V_EdgeMetric.cpp
> Generating Code...
> Compiling manifest to resources...
> Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> Linking...
> LINK : C:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\bin\Debug\vtkverdict.dll not found or not built by
> the last incremental link; performing full link
> Embedding manifest...
> Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Utilities\verdict\vtkverdict.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkverdict - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
>
>
>
>
>
> My output from doing a "build all" after the first "build all" was ran that
> actually compiled everything.
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkNetCDF_cxx, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\..\bin\Debug\vtkNetCDF.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Utilities\vtknetcdf\vtkNetCDF_cxx.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkNetCDF_cxx - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkGraphics, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Linking...
> *LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\bin\Debug\vtkverdict.lib'*
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Graphics\vtkGraphics.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkGraphics - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkIO, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\bin\Debug\vtkDICOMParser.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\IO\vtkIO.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkIO - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkexoIIc, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\..\bin\Debug\vtkNetCDF.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Utilities\vtkexodus2\vtkexoIIc.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkexoIIc - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkRendering, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkGraphics.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Rendering\vtkRendering.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkRendering - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkVolumeRendering, Configuration: Debug
> Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\bin\Debug\vtkRendering.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\VolumeRendering\vtkVolumeRendering.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkVolumeRendering - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkHybrid, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\bin\Debug\vtkRendering.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Hybrid\vtkHybrid.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkHybrid - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkWidgets, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\bin\Debug\vtkRendering.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Widgets\vtkWidgets.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkWidgets - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkInfovis, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkWidgets.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Infovis\vtkInfovis.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkInfovis - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkViews, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkInfovis.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Views\vtkViews.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkViews - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkGeovis, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkWidgets.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Geovis\vtkGeovis.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkGeovis - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: QVTK, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '..\..\bin\Debug\vtkRendering.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\GUISupport\Qt\QVTK.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> QVTK - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkGenericFiltering, Configuration: Debug
> Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkGraphics.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\GenericFiltering\vtkGenericFiltering.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkGenericFiltering - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ------ Build started: Project: vtkCharts, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> Linking...
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\bin\Debug\vtkViews.lib'
> Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\blaine\My
> Documents\work\VTK\bin\Charts\vtkCharts.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> vtkCharts - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 14 failed, 34 up-to-date, 0 skipped
> ==========
>
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