[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Tue Jul 23 15:33:51 EDT 2013

Joseph,

I recently was successful in getting VTK6.0 working with my VS2008 project.

What I had to do was include the headers in BOTH the source distribution
AND the CMake build directory. It would build fine with just the source
headers, since that is where the definitions are, but it wouldn't run
because the macro/module definitions are in the build directory.

 There are 50 vtk include directories in my project, half from the source
and half from the build.

Brooke

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:

> I built VTK in debug mode and got a bit more information.  The debugger
> doesn't trace into VTK, it just outputs the following to the output console:
>         Generic Warning: In
> ..\..\..\VTK6.0.0\Rendering\Core\vtkRenderer.cxx, line 47
>         Error: no override found for 'vtkRenderer'.
>         Generic Warning: In
> ..\..\..\VTK6.0.0\Rendering\Core\vtkRenderWindow.cxx, line 35
>         Error: no override found for 'vtkRenderWindow'
>
> Which are the respective lines:
>         vtkAbstractObjectFactoryNewMacro(vtkRenderer)
>         vtkAbstractObjectFactoryNewMacro(vtkRenderWindow)
>
> This occurs when I try to execute the following line:
>         vtkSmartPointer<vtkContextView> view =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkContextView>::New();
>
> Note that I am doing the autoinit as follows:
>         #define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT
> 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
>         #define vtkRenderingVolume_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL)
>
> This is defined within the header file of any class using VTK.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:35 AM
> To: Joseph Melnyk
> Cc: Robert Maynard; vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
>
> If you build your VTK Debug you you should see more.
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I can't trace directly into the vtk dll's for
> more information.  The stack trace just tells me where they've failed in
> the .h file, which is just the New() call.
>
> As I said, some objects will instantiate and can be used just fine.  For
> example, I can use vtkTable and vtkFloatArray just fine but then when I try
> to use vtkContextView or vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera, the New() event
> fails.
>
> Regards
> Joseph Melnyk
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Maynard [mailto:robert.maynard at kitware.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:14 AM
> > To: Joseph Melnyk
> > Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio
> >
> > Are you able to provide more information on the exact violation
> exceptions
> > with a back trace? Access violations can occur when you call methods on a
> > NULL object, so it could be a case that a object factory that is NULL is
> being
> > asked to create classes.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:
> > > I'm attempting to port an existing code base from VTK 5.10 to 6.0.
>  This
> > code base has existed and worked happily with VTK 5.x for a few years
> now,
> > being built with Visual Studio 2008.  When I began the port to 6.0, I
> followed
> > the migration guide found here:
> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide and the code builds
> > and links just fine.  However, when I run it, I'm getting access
> violation
> > exceptions (attempts to read/write protected memory) when I try
> > instantiating with New().  Researching further, I see that this problem
> is
> > mentioned here:
> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration/Factories_now_require_de
> > fines  HOWEVER I'm not getting NULL objects with the New() call, I'm
> getting
> > exceptions.  Furthermore, it doesn't happen with every VTK object; some
> > instantiate and can be used just fine.  Nonetheless, I tried the
> suggestions at
> > the second link, regarding definition of VTK AUTOINIT, and they proved
> > fruitless.  So I'm currently at a loss...
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, I'm building VTK with CMAKE and the only options
> I'm
> > changing from the default configuration are the following:
> > > - build shared libs
> > > - don't build TESTING
> > > - set custom install directory
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time; any help would be greatly appreciated...
> > > Joseph Melnyk
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