[vtkusers] Static Link VTK

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Mehdi Esteghamatian
<mehdiesteghamat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes your right it should be fine although I am not getting it right yet. My
> previous qt was compiled dynamically. So, I still had to put QT dlls in the
> target folder.
>
> Now I compiled the qt statically which is a bit confusing because It did not
> create separate folders for statics and dynamic libraries,  so now things
> look like below in lib folder (D:\...\QT\4.8.4\lib). For every library I
> have 4 versions. for example for QTCore I have the followings
>
> QtCore.lib     ->  static release
> QtCored.lib   -> static debug
> QtCore.lib    -> dynamic rlease
> QtCore.lib    -> dynamic debug
>
> NOW the problem is that I am getting redefinition link errors as below which
> is probably because Visual Studio (2010) still tries to compile the target
> dynamically which should no longer be the case.
>
> I guess I need to somehow tell the VS to stick to static libraries only
> either directly or through CMakeLists.txt (which I am not good at).
>
> Please let me know if there is any suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mehdi
>
>
> 1>------ Build started: Project: SimpleView, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> 1>QtGuid4.lib(QtGuid4.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall
> QSizePolicy::QSizePolicy(enum QSizePolicy::Policy,enum QSizePolicy::Policy)"
> (??0QSizePolicy@@QAE at W4Policy@0 at 0@Z) already defined in SimpleView.obj
> 1>QtCored4.lib(QtCored4.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: __thiscall
> QString::~QString(void)" (??1QString@@QAE at XZ) already defined in
> SimpleView.obj
> 1>QtCored4.lib(QtCored4.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: int __thiscall
> QSize::width(void)const " (?width at QSize@@QBEHXZ) already defined in
> SimpleView.obj
> 1>QtCored4.lib(QtCored4.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: int __thiscall
> QSize::height(void)const " (?height at QSize@@QBEHXZ) already defined in
> SimpleView.obj
> 1>QtCored4.lib(QtCored4.dll) : error LNK2005: "public: bool __thiscall
> QBasicAtomicInt::deref(void)" (?deref at QBasicAtomicInt@@QAE_NXZ) already
> defined in SimpleView.obj
> 1>SimpleView.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private:
> static class QCoreApplication * QCoreApplication::self"
> (?self at QCoreApplication@@0PAV1 at A)
> 1>moc_SimpleView.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public:
> static struct QMetaObject const QMainWindow::staticMetaObject"
> (?staticMetaObject at QMainWindow@@2UQMetaObject@@B)
> 1>D:\Research\SampleCodes\SimpleView\winbin\Debug\SimpleView.exe : fatal
> error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Did you clean you build and also regenerate the visual studio solution
using CMake-gui?

John