[Insight-users] Problems when building ITK based applications in a Visual C++6 environment

Mon Sep 27 11:04:28 EDT 2004

Hi Henry,

1) Currently there is not a way of generating a
    CMakeList.txt file out of a VisualStudio project.

2) Before you continue, please make sure that you
    install the Service Pack 6 for Visual Studio.
    VC++ 6.0 has a number of bugs that will prevent
    you from building ITK if you don't apply the
    service pack first.

3) The error messages that you get now are related to
    functions like

             acosf
             asinf
             atanf

     that are defined in the header file "math.h"/"cmath"

     are you doing something special with these headers
     in your project  ?   e.g. mixing both styles of
     headers ?

4) Again..., you will save a lot of time, not only now but
    also along the development of your project, if you use
    CMake for configuration. The fact of having a large
    project is actually a stronger motivation for migrating
    to CMake.

Regards,

    Luis

---------------------
Henry Joye wrote:

> Hi, Luis,
> 
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> As you pointed out, I also want to use CMake to build
> the project. But my problem is that I just add a
> segmentation module into my existing Inventor based
> visualization project. I didnot create a new ITK based
> project from beginning. The existing project is a
> little large and includes a lot of files and folders.
> So I think it is an easy way to add ITK based
> segmentation module directly into the existing VC++
> project, but not using CMake. 
> 
> My problem is whether it is possible to automatically
> convert existing VC++ project file to CMake's
> CMakeLists.txt files or how to convert the existing
> VC++ project file to CMake's CMakelists.tet files. 
> 
> I have added /GR compiler option to the project and
> the previous warnings disappear. But other problems
> appear. I add some including paths as the project
> required step by step, e.g.
> \INSIGHTTOOLKIT18\UTILITIES\VXL\CORE,\INSIGHTTOOLKIT18\UTILITIES\VXL\VCL,
> \ITKBIN\UTILITIES\VXL\CORE, \ITKBIN\UTILITIES\VXL\VCL.
> When building the project, the following errors appear
> for each file related to ITK:
> 
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(85)
> : error C2589: '(' : illegal token on right side of
> '::'
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(85)
> : error C2059: syntax error : '::'
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(89)
> : error C2589: '(' : illegal token on right side of
> '::'
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(89)
> : error C2059: syntax error : '::'
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(93)
> : error C2589: '(' : illegal token on right side of
> '::'
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\win32-vc60\vcl_cmath.h(93)
> : error C2059: syntax error : '::'
> .............
> d:\itk\insighttoolkit\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(318)
> : error C2653: 'Detail' : is not a class or namespace
> name
>        
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(328)
> : see reference to class template instantiation
> 'Signed<T>' being compiled
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(318)
> : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '<'
>        
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(328)
> : see reference to class template instantiation
> 'Signed<T>' being compiled
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(318)
> : error C2059: syntax error : '<'
>        
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(328)
> : see reference to class template instantiation
> 'Signed<T>' being compiled
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(318)
> : error C2238: unexpected token(s) preceding ';'
>        
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkconceptchecking.h(328)
> : see reference to class template instantiation
> 'Signed<T>' being compiled
> ..................
> 
> Would you please tell me how to solve these problems?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> 
> Joye
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Your life will be much simpler if you use CMake...
>>
>>but if you insist in configuring your project in the
>>hard way, then you must enable the use of
>>Exceptions.
>>
>>     You do this by adding /GR compiler option.
>>
>>Please check on the compiler options of your project
>>and enable exceptions.
>>
>>If you were using CMake, it will take care of this
>>annoying little details, and you would be doing
>>image
>>processing instead of tweaking compiler options.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Regards,
>>
>>
>>     Luis
>>
>>
>>
>>------------------
>>Henry Joye wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, all,
>>>
>>>I am using ITK in an OpenInventor based project on
>>>Windows Xp and build it in Visual C++ 6. I donot
>>
>>use
>>
>>>CMake in my project. In order to build the
>>
>>project, I
>>
>>>set the include path of ITK in Visual C++ 6
>>
>>through
>>
> ï¿½ï¿½Toolsï¿½ï¿½-->ï¿½ï¿½Optionsï¿½ï¿½-->ï¿½ï¿½Directoriesï¿½ï¿½.
> Because
> 
>>>there is no separate specific folder of
>>
>>ï¿½ï¿½Includeï¿½ï¿½ in
>>
>>>ITK, I add
>>
>>ï¿½ï¿½\Insight\InsightToolkit18\Code\Commonï¿½ï¿½,
>>
> ï¿½ï¿½\Insight\InsightToolkit18\Code\Algorithmsï¿½ï¿½,
> and
> 
>>ITK
>>
>>>binary folder ï¿½ï¿½ITKBinï¿½ï¿½ into the include
> 
> path
> 
>>>environment. When I build the project, the project
>>
>>ask
>>
>>>for the path of ï¿½ï¿½VCLï¿½ï¿½, I also add
>>>ï¿½ï¿½\INSIGHTTOOLKIT18\UTILITIES\VXL\VCLï¿½ï¿½
> 
> into the
> 
>>>include path. After these steps, I begin to build
>>
>>the
>>
>>>project and receive following errors and warnings
>>>(there are several this kind of warning for every
>>
>>ITK
>>
>>>related project file):
>>>
>>>
>>
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkeventobject.h(134)
> 
>>>: warning C4541: 'dynamic_cast' used on
>>
>>polymorphic
>>
>>>type 'class itk::EventObject' with /GR-;
>>
>>unpredictable
>>
>>>behavior may result
>>>
>>
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkeventobject.h(135)
> 
>>>: warning C4541: 'dynamic_cast' used on 
>>>ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½
>>>
>>
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkeventobject.h(138)
> 
>>>: warning C4541: 'dynamic_cast' used on
>>
>>polymorphic
>>
>>>type 'class itk::EventObject' with /GR-;
>>
>>unpredictable
>>
>>>behavior may result
>>>
>>
> e:\insighttoolkit18\code\common\itkeventobject.h(139)
> 
>>>: warning C4541: 'dynamic_cast' used on
>>
>>polymorphic
>>
>>>type 'class itk::EventObject' with /GR-;
>>
>>unpredictable
>>
>>>behavior may result
>>>ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½
>>>
>>
> e:\insighttoolkit18\utilities\vxl\vcl\vcl_compiler.h(134)
> 
>>>: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file:
>>>'vcl_config_manual.h': No such file or directory
>>>
>>>My questions are:
>>>1)	What causes these warnings and errors?
>>>2)	How to build a ITK based project in Visual C++
>>
>>6
>>
>>>without using CMake?
>>>3)	Is it possible to create a separate
> 
> ï¿½ï¿½Includeï¿½ï¿½
> 
>>>folder to be used during building applications?
>>>4)	How to solve these problems?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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