[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Fri Jul 26 12:58:17 EDT 2013

I think you ended up doing the right thing. By building the example with
cmake, you discovered the proper settings and used those to set up your
non-cmake VS project.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:

> Indeed it does.  After I got this working, I did some digging into how
> exactly CMake had set the project up.  The main difference was that instead
> of having the #define AUTOINIT lines within all the headers which use VTK,
> the AUTOINITS were simply in an external .h file, which was then fed into
> the preprocessor and vtkRenderingCore_INCLUDE was also defined.  Once I
> tried this, everything worked great within my test project as well as the
> project I was trying to migrate to VTK 6.
>
> To clarify for anyone else trying this, my project now has the following
> lines in the Preprocessor Definitions:
>
> vtkRenderingCore_INCLUDE=\"$(ProjectDir)\vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT_vtkInteractionStyle_vtkRenderingFreeType_vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL_vtkRenderingOpenGL.h\"
> vtkRenderingVolume_AUTOINIT=1(vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL)
>
> Where the .h file referenced exists in my ProjectDir with only the
> following line:
> #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT
> 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
>
> My include and lib directories are set up as normal (no references to
> CMake build directory, etc.).  Seems there may be a *slightly* cleaner way
> of doing this, but I'm going to leave it alone for now.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
>
>
> From: Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
> To: Joseph Melnyk
> Cc: Frédéric Speisser; vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>
> If you use cmake to configure the example, does it work?
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
> OK.  I tried this and it's now giving the expected behavior of returning a
> NULL object from the New() call for vtkPolyDataMapper.  The vtkSphereSource
> allocation and use works fine, however.  This occurs both with and without
> the AUTOINIT lines.
>
> Previously, I was using a chart/plotting example from the wiki found here:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Plotting/LinePlot.  There, the
> usage of vtkTable and vtkFloatArray worked fine but it would then give me
> the previously described access violation exception when I tried to create
> vtkContextView.
>
> I'm not doing this with CMake, by the way; this is all within VS2008, with
> VTK6 referenced and linked the way I've always used VTK5.x
>
> Joseph
>
>
>
>
> From: Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:19 PM
>
> To: Joseph Melnyk
> Cc: Frédéric Speisser; vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>
> Could you try one of the wiki examples?
>
> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Sphere
> Follow the download instructions on the page.
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
> Bill
> I have a small example that compiles and exhibits the same behavior.  I
> set it up as a VS2008 project, however even after being compressed it's
> still 5MB.  Obviously I don't want to flood inboxes with this.  Would you
> like me to send it to you directly or possibly just post the code from it
> and leave the project setup details aside?
>
> Thanks
> Joseph
>
>
>
>
> From: Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:29 AM
> To: Joseph Melnyk
> Cc: Frédéric Speisser; vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>
> 1) Can you provide a small, compilable example that fails?
> 2) You could try some of the VTK Wiki Examples.
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples
> 3) Find one that uses a class that is failing.
>     for example, in google search:
> site:vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples vtkImageViewer2
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Have you run one of the failing programs in the VS debugger?
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion.  This is the definition I tried when I
> mentioned definition of VTK AUTOINIT.  The links you mentioned, and the
> ones I did, all discuss this within the context of the New() function
> returning a NULL value, however, not generating an exception.  As I said, I
> tried them anyway with no success.
> Joseph Melnyk
>
> From: Frédéric Speisser [mailto:speisser at kappaeng.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:56 AM
> To: Joseph Melnyk
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>
> Hello,
>
> When I ported VTK 5.9.1 to VTK 5.6, I encountered such issues maybe you
> are encountering the same, ensure you've done following :
> o   extra definitions must be added in preprocessor settings :
> To have the os/rendering system  dependent classes created,  following
> macro must be set :
> #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT
> 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
>
> or a reference to a file, containing the previous macro, like this must be
> added in preprocessor definitions :
>
> vtkRenderingCore_INCLUDE="vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT_vtkInteractionStyle_vtkRenderingFreeType_vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL_vtkRenderingOpenGL.h"
>
> Hope that helps !
>
> P.S. Links which were useful to me :
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide
> http://www.visitusers.org/index.php?title=VTK_6.0_Upgrade
>
>
> Le 23/07/2013 15:14, Robert Maynard a écrit :
> 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_defines
> HOWEVER I'm not getting NULL objects with the New() call, I'm getting
> exceptions.  Furthermore, it doesn't happen with ever
>  y VTK o
> bject; 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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