[vtkusers] Will VTK 6.3 support Visual Studio 2015?

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 14:23:15 +0200, Niels Dekker - address until 2018 wrote:
> I tried to build VTK 6.2, VTK 6.3 RC1, and the current version from 
> gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk.git on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, but 
> all of my attempts failed, apparently because of various issues 
> (#0015529, #0015534, #0015535, #0015536), reported by David Kuegler. 
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/dkuegler/vtk/commits/release-VS2015-compiler-errors
> 
> Is there any chance that VTK 6.3 will compile on Visual Studio 2015?

Here's a branch I've been poking for a bit:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/446

There's currently an experimental dashboard here:

    https://buildbot.kitware.com/builders/vtk-nemesis-windows-shared-release%2Bmpi%2Bmsvc2015%2Bopengl2%2Bpython

VTK triggered an internal compiler error in MSVC2015, so the answer for
master is "not if you want EnSight support" :) . The third party plugins
have logic which assume "MSVC? must not have X." which is not (always)
true for 2015 (It has snprintf! Without the underscore!).

I'll try for the release (it might even make rc2); it's down to warnings
right now. Harder testing encouraged (e.g., it isn't trying OpenGL1
right now).

Thanks,

--Ben