[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 13:55:20 EDT 2013 

I don';t have these problems for some reason. I think we need to help
customers like Joseph. Can you tell him how to get his code configured?



On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I can take a look at adding some simpler macros that can be called to
> initialize code, we take care of all of the defines if CMake is used
> but it is quite difficult to get right when not using CMake. Do you
> have specific suggestions on how you want to see this fixed Bill? The
> errors output indicate the defines are not being set correctly, and
> that is why I added the debug output (to make this issue easier to
> spot).
>
> Marcus
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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