[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Tue Jul 23 15:49:14 EDT 2013

You should not have to manually include any directories in VS.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Brooke Steele <bnsteel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joseph,
>
> I recently was successful in getting VTK6.0 working with my VS2008
> project.
>
> What I had to do was include the headers in BOTH the source distribution
> AND the CMake build directory. It would build fine with just the source
> headers, since that is where the definitions are, but it wouldn't run
> because the macro/module definitions are in the build directory.
>
>  There are 50 vtk include directories in my project, half from the source
> and half from the build.
>
> Brooke
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
>
>> I built VTK in debug mode and got a bit more information.  The debugger
>> doesn't trace into VTK, it just outputs the following to the output console:
>>         Generic Warning: In
>> ..\..\..\VTK6.0.0\Rendering\Core\vtkRenderer.cxx, line 47
>>         Error: no override found for 'vtkRenderer'.
>>         Generic Warning: In
>> ..\..\..\VTK6.0.0\Rendering\Core\vtkRenderWindow.cxx, line 35
>>         Error: no override found for 'vtkRenderWindow'
>>
>> Which are the respective lines:
>>         vtkAbstractObjectFactoryNewMacro(vtkRenderer)
>>         vtkAbstractObjectFactoryNewMacro(vtkRenderWindow)
>>
>> This occurs when I try to execute the following line:
>>         vtkSmartPointer<vtkContextView> view =
>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkContextView>::New();
>>
>> Note that I am doing the autoinit as follows:
>>         #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT
>> 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
>>         #define vtkRenderingVolume_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL)
>>
>> This is defined within the header file of any class using VTK.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:35 AM
>> To: Joseph Melnyk
>> Cc: Robert Maynard; vtkusers at vtk.org
>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>>
>> If you build your VTK Debug you you should see more.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion.  I can't trace directly into the vtk dll's for
>> more information.  The stack trace just tells me where they've failed in
>> the .h file, which is just the New() call.
>>
>> As I said, some objects will instantiate and can be used just fine.  For
>> example, I can use vtkTable and vtkFloatArray just fine but then when I try
>> to use vtkContextView or vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera, the New() event
>> fails.
>>
>> Regards
>> Joseph Melnyk
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Robert Maynard [mailto:robert.maynard at kitware.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:14 AM
>> > To: Joseph Melnyk
>> > Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
>> > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>> >
>> > Are you able to provide more information on the exact violation
>> exceptions
>> > with a back trace? Access violations can occur when you call methods on
>> a
>> > NULL object, so it could be a case that a object factory that is NULL
>> is being
>> > asked to create classes.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > I'm attempting to port an existing code base from VTK 5.10 to 6.0.
>>  This
>> > code base has existed and worked happily with VTK 5.x for a few years
>> now,
>> > being built with Visual Studio 2008.  When I began the port to 6.0, I
>> followed
>> > the migration guide found here:
>> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide and the code builds
>> > and links just fine.  However, when I run it, I'm getting access
>> violation
>> > exceptions (attempts to read/write protected memory) when I try
>> > instantiating with New().  Researching further, I see that this problem
>> is
>> > mentioned here:
>> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration/Factories_now_require_de
>> > fines  HOWEVER I'm not getting NULL objects with the New() call, I'm
>> getting
>> > exceptions.  Furthermore, it doesn't happen with every VTK object; some
>> > instantiate and can be used just fine.  Nonetheless, I tried the
>> suggestions at
>> > the second link, regarding definition of VTK AUTOINIT, and they proved
>> > fruitless.  So I'm currently at a loss...
>> > >
>> > > For what it's worth, I'm building VTK with CMAKE and the only options
>> I'm
>> > changing from the default configuration are the following:
>> > > - build shared libs
>> > > - don't build TESTING
>> > > - set custom install directory
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your time; any help would be greatly appreciated...
>> > > Joseph Melnyk
>> > >
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