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

[Cory Quammen]

Thanks for reporting your progress, Audrius! This is great.

Cory

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Audrius Stundzia <audrius at tomographix.com>
wrote:

> 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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Cory Quammen
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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