[vtkusers] Activiz 6.2 with VTK-6.2 and .NET 4.0 Build Success

David E DeMarle dave.demarle at kitware.com
Thu Sep 24 16:52:15 EDT 2015 

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David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Matias Montroull <matimontg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> How can I get permissions to edit the WiKi instructions? I'd like to
> include what I haev to do to build AtiViz 6.2 successfully.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> El lun., 21 de sept. de 2015 a la(s) 11:13 a. m., David E DeMarle <
> dave.demarle at kitware.com> escribió:
>
>> Please feel free to update the wiki page directly. Also, post a link to
>> it in this thread when you do. That way the information will have the best
>> visibility for others to find.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Matias Montroull <matimontg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was able to build ActiViz successfully. Altough Mummy did not
>>> completely built, I got the 2 Kitware.Mummy DLLs that are needed for
>>> ActiViz to be built as well as the mummy.exe file.
>>>
>>> *I thank Mark for all the information he provided*, I'll try to post
>>> the steps I followed, it's pretty similar to what you can find in the Wiki
>>> Page but there are some tweaks that need to be done in order to get it
>>> working.
>>>
>>> I had to add the vtkRenderingContextOpenGL-6.2.lib before configuring
>>> the project with Cmake and needed to change vtkCommonEL_dll to
>>> vtkCommonCoreEL_dll in some of the .in files and vtkGraphicsEL_dll to vtkFiltersProgrammableEL_dll
>>> in the vtkProgrammableAttributeDataFilter_Extra.cs
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Matias.
>>>
>>> El mié., 16 de sept. de 2015 a la(s) 3:20 p. m., Mark DeArman <
>>> mark at cascadeacoustic.com> escribió:
>>>
>>>> >Why not just publish a git branch with your changes on GitHub or some
>>>> >other publicly hosted site? Perhaps your branch would get picked up by
>>>> >the folks maintaining the ActiViz repo now.
>>>>
>>>> Because I don't use git.  We use TFS at work, and the easiest way to
>>>> publish it was to zip it all up and put it on a cloud drive.
>>>>
>>>> Re: gcc-xml and Mummy, I agree that abandoning gccxml is the real
>>>> solution.  What is the point in patching it for modern VS support if it's a
>>>> dead project.  Fixing mummy to support the standard VTK wrapping libraries
>>>> makes the most since.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark DeArman
>>>> Cascade Acoustic Research
>>>> http://www.cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> (253) 200-5353
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From*: "David Cole" <DLRdave at aol.com>
>>>> *Sent*: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 7:12 AM
>>>> *To*: mark at cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> *Cc*: "vtkusers at vtk.org" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>>>>
>>>> *Subject*: Re: [vtkusers] Activiz 6.2 with VTK-6.2 and .NET 4.0 Build
>>>> Success
>>>>
>>>> > "if my idea of adding a second build step can get rid of the
>>>> VS2008/MSCRT9 dependency for the final library"
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I think it absolutely could. It would be based on the assumption,
>>>> however, that the interface generated by analyzing the source under
>>>> the VS2008 environment would in the end be compatible with what you
>>>> compile and link for the final library. And it would mean a two-stage
>>>> build, with VS2008 still required for the first stage.
>>>>
>>>> I would be interested to see if anybody can replace gcc-xml with the
>>>> new&improved CastXML, and still build ActiViz using a more modern VS
>>>> all in one go. I haven't had time to investigate bringing things up to
>>>> date for using CastXML, but if anybody else does, please do let us all
>>>> know here on the VTK lists.
>>>>
>>>> Question for you:
>>>> Why not just publish a git branch with your changes on GitHub or some
>>>> other publicly hosted site? Perhaps your branch would get picked up by
>>>> the folks maintaining the ActiViz repo now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Mark DeArman <mark at cascadeacoustic.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Mallikarjun,
>>>> > Your very welcome. I hope they'll help someone else out. I've been
>>>> very
>>>> > excited about using Activiz in a project for years. Since I was a kid
>>>> stuck
>>>> > running BSD on mac68k I've always enjoyed the challenge of porting
>>>> software,
>>>> > so I had a great time working on the build.
>>>> >
>>>> > gccxml generates the XML description of the C++ VTK library exports.
>>>> Mummy
>>>> > reads these and generates the csharp wrapper files. I really have not
>>>> dug
>>>> > into it deep enough yet to know how the Activiz export layer source
>>>> fits
>>>> > into the puzzle, but if I get some time, I'll see if my idea of
>>>> adding a
>>>> > second build step can get rid of the VS2008/MSCRT9 dependency for the
>>>> final
>>>> > library.
>>>> >
>>>> > Mark DeArman
>>>> > Cascade Acoustic Research
>>>> > http://www.cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> > (253) 200-5353
>>>> >
>>>> > ________________________________
>>>> > From: "Mallikarjun K" <mallikarjun49 at gmail.com>
>>>> > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 9:52 PM
>>>> > To: mark at cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Activiz 6.2 with VTK-6.2 and .NET 4.0 Build
>>>> Success
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi Mark,
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks for sharing the source directories. One quick question..if I
>>>> am not
>>>> > wrong,the purpose of gcc-xml is to generate the xml descryption of c++
>>>> > program, I found link https://github.com/dgobbi/WrapVTK which has a
>>>> > generator for xml.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Mark DeArman <
>>>> mark at cascadeacoustic.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Nothing will make it build in VS2013. Because of gccxml, you have to
>>>> have
>>>> >> VS2008 to do the build.
>>>> >> I started to work on patching gccxml, but that was kind of a
>>>> nightmare
>>>> >> I'll leave to someone with more time.
>>>> >> I am not a C++ template guru.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But, the changes I've made build the binaries targeting .NET 4.0
>>>> instead
>>>> >> of .NET 2.0.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Here is the link to the Source download directory. I'm uploading it
>>>> right
>>>> >> now, so it will be a little bit.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C21891647818579A!108957&authkey=!ADS9VLyqTef24FY&ithint=folder%2c
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Mark DeArman
>>>> >> Cascade Acoustic Research
>>>> >> http://www.cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> >> (253) 200-5353
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ________________________________
>>>> >> From: "Mallikarjun K" <mallikarjun49 at gmail.com>
>>>> >> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 5:55 AM
>>>> >> To: mark at cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> >> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Activiz 6.2 with VTK-6.2 and .NET 4.0 Build
>>>> >> Success
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi Mark,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can you send me the patched source directories. I want to make use of
>>>> >> activiz 6.2 for vtk 6.2 with vs2013?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Mark DeArman <
>>>> mark at cascadeacoustic.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I finally finished patching and testing the build.
>>>> >>> VTK-6.2 built with Intel C++ 14.0
>>>> >>> Activiz 6.2 built with .NET 4.0
>>>> >>> Mummy 1.0.3 built with .NET 4.0
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> If anyone else is having trouble getting this working, feel free to
>>>> get
>>>> >>> in contact with me, I can send you my patched source directories.
>>>> This is
>>>> >>> my first experience with CMake, and I've got to say it sure made
>>>> things a
>>>> >>> breeze.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> The only thing which drove me nuts was the number of times a full
>>>> rebuild
>>>> >>> got triggered after patching individual source files. I wish the
>>>> >>> maintainers would remove the gccxml/mummy generate functions from
>>>> the
>>>> >>> configure step, and just make it another build step.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I hope I can get more involved with the project but I've got a lot
>>>> of
>>>> >>> learning to do before I'd feel comfortable in CMake.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Mark DeArman
>>>> >>> Cascade Acoustic Research
>>>> >>> http://www.cascadeacoustic.com
>>>> >>> (253) 200-5353
>>>> >>>
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> --
>>>> >> With Kind Regards:
>>>> >> Mallikarjuna K,
>>>> >> 07795531103/09908238861.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
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>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > With Kind Regards:
>>>> > Mallikarjuna K,
>>>> > 07795531103/09908238861.
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>
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