[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 16:57:25 EDT 2013 

This is not your fault. It is our (vtk developers) fault.



On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Brooke Steele <bnsteel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I'm not a CMake guru.
>
>  I am not smart enough to figure out how to make CMake include all of my
> settings from my existing project, so I emulated the output of using CMake
> with VTK6.0 to make a VTK only VS project, and ported what I found to my
> existing VS project.
>
> I couldn't find sufficient description of what I was "supposed" to do
> online, so I had to wing it.
>
>  My project works, so I feel like the manual includes were the right thing
> for me.
>
> Brooke
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You should not have to manually include any directories in VS.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Brooke Steele <bnsteel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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