[vtkusers] Bug fix notes for building VTK 6.2.0 with MS VS2015 on Windows 10 x64

[Audrius Stundzia]

VTK Users,

Thought I'd share the bug fixes that were required to build VTK 6.2.0 to
build with MS VS2015 on Windows 10 x64 in case anyone else is trying to
do the same.

118>------ Build started: Project: ALL_BUILD, Configuration: Debug
    x64 ------
118> Building Custom Rule E:/VTK/VTK-6.2.0/CMakeLists.txt
118> CMake does not need to re-run because
     E:\VTK\CMakeFiles\generate.stamp is up-to-date.
========== Build: 25 succeeded, 93 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
========== ==========

Wow.

The following 4 bug fixes resulted in a successful build.

1/ Project: vtklibxml2

File: config.h

/* Win32 Std C name mangling work-around */ /* MS VS2015: deprecated.
snprintf is now the standard in VS2015. */ // #if defined(_MSC_VER) // #
define snprintf _snprintf / #endif

2/ Project: vtktiff

File: tiffiop.h

// MS VS2015: added header
# include <corecrt_search.h>

// MS VS2015: deprecated /* #ifdef HAVE_SEARCH_H
# include <search.h>
#else extern void *lfind(const void *, const void *, size_t *, size_t,
int (*)(const void *, const void *)); #endif */

3/ Project: vtkhdf5

File:  H5Omtime.c

#elif defined(H5_HAVE_LNX_TIMEZONE) // Dummy argument for now    /*
Linux libc-5 */    the_time -= timezone - (tm.tm_isdst?3600:0); #elif
defined(H5_HAVE_TIMEZONE) && defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1900 //
In Visual Studio prior to VS2015 'timezone' is a global variable
declared // in time.h. That variable was deprecated and in VS2015 is
removed, with // _get_timezone replacing it. long time_zone = 0;
_get_timezone(&time_zone); the_time -= time_zone - (tm.tm_isdst ?
3600 : 0);

Comment: Is this correct? Maybe, but frankly I don't care as I have less
than zero interest in HDF5.

4/ Project: vtkCommonCore

File: vtkWin32ProcessOutputWindow.cxx

Fix: add a space before and after PRIdword.

// Construct the executable name from the process id, pointer to  //
this output window instance, and a count.  This should be unique.
sprintf(exeName, "vtkWin32OWP_%" PRIdword "_%p_%u.exe",
GetCurrentProcessId(), this, this->Count++);

After the above 4 fixes, VTK 6.2.0 built and installed as it should.
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