[vtkusers] [vtk-users] VTK6.2 VS2013+Qt5.5.0 - Linker error not able to open 'vtkCommon.lib'

[David E DeMarle]

Not using cmake in your code is fine.

In VTK's source, Utilities/Maintainance/WhatModules.py is a python script
that scans code and figures out what modules(i.e. libraries) it needs. That
should help. Otherwise you have to figure it out manually.

Also, your code now has to call some initialization functions that it
didn't have to with VTK 5. Cmake based projects that use VTK 6 do this
automatically. See the last part of the wiki page I pointed you at for more
details.


David E DeMarle
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Kavya Bellur Padmesh <
kavyabellur.4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> Thank you for the clarification. As I am porting the application with
> VS2013, all the lib file names are mentioned under Project->
> Properties->Linker->Input-> Additional dependencies.
> Now I have to replace included 'vtkCommon.lib' with new modularised .lib
> file for building my application.
> The project I have been porting, is not created with cmake_lists.txt. In
> this scenario, how will I be able to port the application?
>
> Kindly provide me some information.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:13 AM, David E DeMarle <
> dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Kavya,
>>
>> The problem you see is that VTK 5's vtkCommon.lib was split in VTK 6 into
>> vtkCommonDataModel.lib, vtkCommonColor.lib,
>> vtkCommonComputatinalGeometry.lib, vtkCommonCore.lib,
>> vtkCommonExecutionModel.lib, vtkCommonMath.lib, vtkCommonMisc.lib,
>> vtkCommonSystem.lib, and vtkCommonTransforms.lib. This is the
>> modularization John referred to and its purpose was to make it possible to
>> link to only small parts of VTK if you don't need all of it.
>>
>> See: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Build_System_Migration for more
>> information.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:01 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > I am new into VTK as well QT. I followed the installation procedure and
>>> > integrated VTK6.2 with QT5.5.0. As I am porting VTK5 application
>>> getting
>>> > linker error as "error LNL1104 Not able to open QVTK.lib,
>>> vtkCommon.lib' . I
>>> > have provided the path variables, still as library name doesnot match
>>> with
>>> > older version getting the error.
>>> >
>>> > If anyone been successful in porting VTK5 to VTK6, could you please
>>> let me
>>> > know how did you modify the .lib files names?
>>> >
>>>
>>> It's much simpler to just use ${VTK_LIBRARIES} in your CMakeLists.txt
>>> instead of specifying individual libraries. There are quite a few
>>> libraries now with the modularization.
>>>
>>> John
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