[vtkusers] Vtk+Qt in Windows7

[francesc trull]

Hi John,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I recompiled with
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF and still have the same problem. Do you know
what else can I do?

Francesc.

2012/3/11 John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>:
> 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