[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Tue Jul 23 17:00:50 EDT 2013

Marcus,

The new factory mechanism is frustrating users. Apparently, the current
documentation is not clear enough. We need to fix this.

Bill

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is not your fault. It is our (vtk developers) fault.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Brooke Steele <bnsteel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm not a CMake guru.
>>
>>  I am not smart enough to figure out how to make CMake include all of my
>> settings from my existing project, so I emulated the output of using CMake
>> with VTK6.0 to make a VTK only VS project, and ported what I found to my
>> existing VS project.
>>
>> I couldn't find sufficient description of what I was "supposed" to do
>> online, so I had to wing it.
>>
>>  My project works, so I feel like the manual includes were the right
>> thing for me.
>>
>> Brooke
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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