[CMake] CMake 2.4.3, VTK 5.0.2, VS 2005 Express

[James Bigler]

David Cole wrote:
> Some of these try-compile tests end up failing if your path name is too 
> long
> on Windows. Are you building under a super-long directory name under 
> your My
> Documents folder, perhaps?
> 
> You may start to run into trouble with path names as short as 100 
> characters
> long or so, believe it or not because of the way some of the relative paths
> are constructed for use by the CMake/Visual Studio combination... Try using
> "C:\VTKbuild" or something similarly short as the root of your build tree.

I'll try this, but my build path seems short enough:

D:\rei\vtk-5.0.2\VS

I think the try compiles are failing, because the programs fail to run 
properly due to some msvcr80.dll (manifests) issue.  I can see in the 
output that the files built fine, but the run result is a string of 
garbled characters.

James

> HTH,
> David
> 
> On 11/9/06, James Bigler <bigler at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to build VTK 5.0.2 with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
>> I need to build libraries in order to make some plugins for another
>> application.  I'm also using CMake 2.4.3 on WinXP.
>>
>> I've been able to build other things with VS 2005 IDE.  In fact, I can
>> build another open source package teem (http://teem.sourceforge.net)
>> with CMake using VS 2005 IDE and nmake (which needed a hack to include
>> Windows SDK includes).
>>
>> I tried following these instructions with no success.
>>
>>
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Generator_Specific_Information#How_to_generate_NMake_Makefiles_using_Visual_C.2B.2B_Express_Edition_.28free_Visual_Studio_8.29 
>>
>>
>> If I use the Visual Studio 8 generator the configure fails when checking
>> the endianness of the machine.  This may be because of the msvcr80.dll
>> and manifest issue.  I haven't been able to find much information on the
>> mailing lists about this.
>>
>> The nmake generator completes, but complains about manifests.  If I
>> restart the build it seems to get further.
>>
>> [  1%] Building CXX object
>> Utilities/kwsys/CMakeFiles/vtksys.dir/CommandLineArgu
>> ments.obj
>> CommandLineArguments.cxx
>> Linking CXX shared library ..\..\bin\vtksys.dll
>>     Creating library ..\..\bin\vtksys.lib and object ..\..\bin\vtksys.exp
>>
>> ..\..\bin\vtksys.dll.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load
>> and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 8\VC\BIN\mt.EXE"' : return code '0x1f'
>> Stop.
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a wrong dependency chain?  It did seem to build after I
>> restarted nmake 30 times or so.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
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