[vtkusers] Building 7.0.0 on 64-bit Windows 10 Python 3.5

[Daryl Lee]

On 9/26/16 2:35 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 14:01:45 -0600, Daryl Lee wrote:
>> Environment:
>>       CMake 3.6.2
>>       Visual Studio 2015 14.0.25431.01 Update 3
>>       Windows 10 Home Version 1511 (64-bit)
>>
>> 1.  I get a couple hundred warnings on exception processing, with the
>> suggestion to set the /EHsc option, but I can't figure out in Visual
>> Studio where to set that.  I've explored the ALL_BUILD options and can't
>> find any place for that, nor can I find it in any of the individual
>> projects I examined.
> You can set it in CMake by adding it to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS (which works
> better anyways since editing the .vcxproj files will be overridden by
> CMake when it reruns).
I'll give that a try.  I'm new to CMake, so this is a good learning 
experience.
>> 2.  The first of a long list of actual errors is in lookup3.c, where is
>> found this sequence at line 57:
>>
>> #ifndef WIN32
>> #include <sys/param.h>
>> #endif
>>
>> where it can't find sys/param.h.  My guess is that since this is a
>> 64-bit machine, WIN32 may not be defined, but since it's a Windows
>> machine, param.h may not exist.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> Hrm. It's probably supposed to be `_WIN32` (which is the standard define
> for detecting Windows). Could you open a bug? We have a VS 2015
> buildbot, but it is Windows 7 (not that I think that's a big difference
> for this problem) and it is building vtknetcdf (where it looks like that
> file exists).
>
>      https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues
>
> --Ben
Will do.

-- 
Daryl Lee
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