[Insight-users] Build fails with MS Visual C++ 8 Express

[Arash Jahangir]

Hi Karthik,
So far I have had four responses to this post (some private) and you are the 
only one who seems to have had any luck with the build (one person 
explicitly informed me that he has never been able to build the wrappers and 
so he was forced to switch platforms).  So I decided to fallow your 
footsteps and build the plain vanilla ITK without modifying any of the CMake 
parameters (except for turning off examples).  The project seems to compile 
but the linker has a lot of errors.  Typical linker error looks like this:


Error 6 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__DestroyWindow at 4 
referenced in function "protected: virtual __thiscall 
itk::Win32OutputWindow::~Win32OutputWindow(void)" 
(??1Win32OutputWindow at itk@@MAE at XZ) ITKCommon.lib


I've been trying to dig this up on the net and most people seem to just 
indicate I need to install the platformSDK which I have.  One person said 
something along the lines of compiler issues using Unicode versus ansi and 
another one had a work around of using variable names for files and 
including them (not sure I want to do that).

Could I ask you about your build environment and how you got it to make?

thanks,
Arash


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karthik Krishnan" <Karthik.Krishnan at kitware.com>
To: "Arash Jahangir" <arash at vije.ca>
Cc: <insight-users at itk.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Build fails with MS Visual C++ 8 Express


> ITK builds without wrapping on VS8 (after adding the Platform SDK include, 
> lib directories). I've never tried building on VS8 with wrapping on 
> though.
>
>
> Arash Jahangir wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Has anyone actually built ITK and/or VTK using Visual Studio Express?
>>  This has been a most frustrating few days and I have run out of time, so 
>> all help is appreciated.
>>  Most of the problems seem to be associated with building Cable Swig and 
>> Python Wrappers.   As the full build takes too much time, I have limited 
>> myself to just building cable swig for now.  Here is my set up:
>>  OS:        Windows XP SP2
>> CMake:     2.2.2
>> CableS:    2.2 (also CVS version both have same issues)
>> ITK:         2.2
>> Python:    2.4
>> Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ Express (aka Visual Studio 8 Express)
>>  Additional Notes:  VC Express lacks some critical header and lib files. 
>> After consulting the related docs on MSDN, I added the bin-lib-include 
>> files from the latest PlatformSDK to VC8E.  This solved some problems 
>> (like lack windows.h file) but many issues remain.  I also have Mingw and 
>> Cygwin installed (not actively in the path).  Seeing how most of the 
>> problems are with gcc and gccxml branch of Cable, I added the Mingw 
>> bin-lib-include files to be used *after* the MS files...no change that I 
>> could notice.  I actually have a working Mingw/MSYS development 
>> environment (which includes the standard gcc, g++, gccxml, etc), so if 
>> there is a way to get ITK built with that while still being able to use 
>> the VC8E for my own ITK/VTK programs, I will listen.
>>  thanks
>> Arash
>>
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