[vtkusers] ANNOUNCE: vtk 6.0.0.rc1 is available to download

[Dženan Zukić]

If I enable BUILD_TESTING then there are no compile errors.


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get compile errors with RC1. 163 projects built OK and 10 failed. Most
> common error was "cannot include vtkTestDriver.h". Below is a small sample
> of errors. Machine: Win7x64 + VS2010SP1.
>
> 6>D:/SDK/vtk-6.0.0/Testing/Rendering/vtkTestingObjectFactory.h(38): fatal
> error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkTestDriver.h': No such file or
> directory
> 7>D:\SDK\vtk-6.0.0\Rendering\HybridOpenGL\Testing\Cxx\TestSurfaceLIC.h(27):
> fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkRegressionTestImage.h': No
> such file or directory
> 8>D:\SDK\vtk-6.0.0\Rendering\HybridOpenGL\Testing\Cxx\TestStructuredGridLIC2DSlice.h(29):
> fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkTestUtilities.h': No such
> file or directory
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:24 PM, David E DeMarle <
> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Kitware and the VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 6.0 has
>> entered the release candidate stage!
>>
>> You can find the source and data packages here:
>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#cand
>>
>> The big news in this release is that VTK has been refactored from a large
>> monolithic resource consisting of 19 tightly bound "kits" into a still
>> large but now composeable resource consisting of 160 loosely bound
>> "modules". Now applications can be built using just the source code for the
>> small portions of the VTK library that they actually use instead of the
>> whole million plus line enchilada. Conversely, it is easier than ever
>> now to add new capabilities to VTK by writing small self-contained external
>> modules.
>>
>> To refactor VTK, we started by cleanly separating VTK's Executive and
>> DataObject classes. You may notice this first in the way that
>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInput() has now been replaced by
>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInputConnection() for connecting Algorithms together and
>> vtkAlgorithm::SetInputData() for feeding DataObjects directly into
>> Algorithms.
>>
>> Next, we modernized our CMake build system scripts by sorting the classes
>> into small functional groups, removing all of the configure time behavioral
>> changes, and replacing the dated KitCommonBlock CMake macros with
>> vtkModuleMacro CMake macros to define the content and dependencies of each
>> functional group. You may notice this first in the way that platform
>> specific classes, such as vtkXRenderWindowInteractor, are not produced
>> automatically by calls to vtkRenderWindowInteractor::New() anymore, unless
>> CMake knows that your code requires the RenderingOpenGL implementation of
>> the RenderingCore module.
>>
>> For full guideline to upgrading your application from VTK 5.x to VTK 6.x,
>> please see the VTK migration guides at:
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration/Overview,
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Build_System_Migration and
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Module_Development
>>
>> Besides modularization, VTK has the usual spate of new features, bug
>> fixes and cleanups. These items will be summarized when VTK 6.0.0 final is
>> released in a few days time.
>>
>> The attachment has a complete list of changes in this release
>> candidate since VTK5.10.1. Please try this version of VTK and
>> report any issues to the list or the bug tracker so that we can try to
>> address them before VTK 6.0.0 final.
>>  David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
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