[vtkusers] VTK6 - Compilation depends on graphical cards

[David E DeMarle]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Malsoaz James <jmalsoaz at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to move my projects to new libs, ie VTK 6.1.0 vs VTK 5.6.0.
> Unfortunately I have numerous bugs coming with these changes.
>
>
Here's hoping that the the migrations guides have been helpful:
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Build_System_Migration
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/API_Changes_5_10_1_to_6_0_0


>  One of them is related to the fact that I need to compile a version of
> VTK for each type of graphical cards I have, ie Nvdia, Intel, Ati.
> With VTK 5.6.0, I had no problem and I could use the same libs on any kind
> of computer.
>
>
Can you elaborate on what specifically is going wrong?


>  Is it related to the fact that I have disabled the "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS"
> option to compile VTK?
>

Might be, see above.


> Why this option is set by default now?
>
>
We made the default switch from STATIC to SHARED between 5.10 and 6.0. I
think the reason was that it appeared to us that the majority of users and
developers were using SHARED. Both sides are still well tested and used
though, so you should be OK with either choice.


>  Best.
> James
>
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