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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=735363500-08122007>Running VC++ 2005
Express on XP Pro</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2>After referencing the
vtk50\Include folder I get a clean compile<SPAN class=735363500-08122007>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT
size=2>which <SPAN class=735363500-08122007>y</SPAN>ields a vtkTest01.obj
in the Debug folder. <BR>The linker creates the .exe and all is well<SPAN
class=735363500-08122007> since no code exist within main and no references to
the vtk Library have been added.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2>No executable vtk code was
added - just a set of vtk includes<SPAN class=735363500-08122007> ..... all is
well</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>-----------------------------------------------------------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Next, I add a Linker Input dependency
for the folder h:\vtk50\lib </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=735363500-08122007>still there is no code</SPAN> main() <SPAN
class=735363500-08122007> - </SPAN>the compile is clean but the Linker
indicates</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Linking...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open
file 'h:\vtk50\lib.obj'</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Build log was saved at
"file://h:\vtk50\Examples\vtkTest01\vtkTest01\Debug\BuildLog.htm"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Of course there is no lib.obj
file.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2>So what should I do
?<BR><BR><SPAN
class=735363500-08122007>Bob</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>