[vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio

Thu Jul 25 13:19:24 EDT 2013

Could you try one of the wiki examples?

http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Sphere

Follow the download instructions on the page.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:

>  Bill****
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> I have a small example that compiles and exhibits the same behavior.  I
> set it up as a VS2008 project, however even after being compressed it’s
> still 5MB.  Obviously I don’t want to flood inboxes with this.  Would you
> like me to send it to you directly or possibly just post the code from it
> and leave the project setup details aside?****
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> *From:* Bill Lorensen [mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:29 AM
> *To:* Joseph Melnyk
> *Cc:* Frédéric Speisser; vtkusers at vtk.org
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> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio****
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> 1) Can you provide a small, compilable example that fails?****
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> 2) You could try some of the VTK Wiki Examples.
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples
> 3) Find one that uses a class that is failing.****
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>     for example, in google search:****
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> site:vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples vtkImageViewer2****
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
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> Have you run one of the failing programs in the VS debugger?****
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:*
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> Thanks for your suggestion.  This is the definition I tried when I
> mentioned definition of VTK AUTOINIT.  The links you mentioned, and the
> ones I did, all discuss this within the context of the New() function
> returning a NULL value, however, not generating an exception.  As I said, I
> tried them anyway with no success.****
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> Joseph Melnyk****
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> *From:* Frédéric Speisser [mailto:speisser at kappaeng.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 23, 2013 9:56 AM
> *To:* Joseph Melnyk
> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] VTK 6.0 with Visual Studio****
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> Hello,
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> When I ported VTK 5.9.1 to VTK 5.6, I encountered such issues maybe you
> are encountering the same, ensure you've done following :****
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> o   extra definitions must be added in preprocessor settings : ****
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> To have the os/rendering system  dependent classes created,  following
> macro must be set :
> *#define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT
> 4(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeType,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
> *
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> or a reference to a file, containing the previous macro, like this must be
> added in preprocessor definitions :
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> vtkRenderingCore_INCLUDE="vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT_vtkInteractionStyle_vtkRenderingFreeType_vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL_vtkRenderingOpenGL.h"
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> Hope that helps !
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> P.S. Links which were useful to me :
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> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide
> http://www.visitusers.org/index.php?title=VTK_6.0_Upgrade
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> Le 23/07/2013 15:14, Robert Maynard a écrit :****
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> Are you able to provide more information on the exact violation****
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> exceptions with a back trace? Access violations can occur when you****
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> call methods on a NULL object, so it could be a case that a object****
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> factory that is NULL is being asked to create classes.****
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Joseph Melnyk <JMelnyk at pile.com> <JMelnyk at pile.com> wrote:****
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>  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_defines  HOWEVER I'm not getting NULL objects with the New() call, I'm getting exceptions.  Furthermore, it doesn't happen with ever****
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>  y VTK o****
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> bject; 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...****
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> 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:****
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> - build shared libs****
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> - don't build TESTING****
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> - set custom install directory****
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> Thanks for your time; any help would be greatly appreciated...****
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