[vtkusers] Installing VTK 5.8 on Windows 7 Environment

[John Anaia]

So, is it better not to build "INSTALL? Should I build both Release and
Debug versions. Thanks.

John

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:45 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 9:34 PM, John Anaia <john.anaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is an excellent link:
> > http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK/Building/Windows
> >
>
> One caution about that guide. If you build shared libraries and you
> use the INSTALL target you can only execute your application in the
> configuration of VTK that you installed. For example if you install
> the Release version of VTK you can not run the debug version of your
> application against the installed dlls because this is highly likely
> to cause a crash. The reason is Microsoft debug CRT is not compatible
> with the release CRT. It is also not compatible with any other visual
> studio version.
>
> John
>
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