[vtkusers] Vtk+Qt in Windows7

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:00 PM, francesc trull <francesctrull at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am having problems working with Vtk and Qt. My OS is Windows7. My
> IDE is MSVS2010. I downloaded the Qt sources (version 4.8.0) and
> compiled them with nmake successfully. I used Git to clone the master
> repository of Vtk. I used CMake 2.8.7 to prepare the Vtk build and set
> the flags VTK_USE_QT, VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS. I set
> the QTDIR environment variable and added the qt and vtk bin paths to
> the Path environment  variable. I used MSVS2010 to build the solution.
> Then I tried some examples. First I compiled RenderWindowUI.cxx
> (successfully). But when I tried to execute it I obtained the message:
> "QVTK.dll missing" (I don't know the exact words because my OS is not
> in english).
> After that I compiled PlaneWidget.cxx and got the message
> "vtkWidgets.dll missing" when trying to execute it.
> I looked at the vtk/bin directory and effectively I have a lot of .dll
> files there but not these two.
> Does anybody know what I need to do?
>

I would rebuild vtk with shared libs off unless you have a pressing
need for that. Then you will not have to write your CMakeLists files
to copy dlls around or to have to set paths to dlls.

John