Re: [Openexr-user] openEXR Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2002 Support

[Drew Hess]

Hey Kevin,

OpenEXR 1.1.0 is a development build, so it still has some bugs.  We know
about the problem with the Photoshop 1.1.0 binary, and we're gonna fix
this for the upcoming 1.1.1 release.  I'd hoped to have 1.1.1 released by
now, but we're having a few problems with OS X and Win32 builds at the
moment.  I expect to have these fixed in the next few days.

For now, I suggest you download the 1.0.7 Photoshop binary plugin and get
started with that.  The only major difference is that 1.0.7 doesn't read
or write tiled files, but that's OK, because there aren't any tiled
OpenEXR files out there in the wild yet anyway.

As for .NET 2002... it's just not gonna compile OpenEXR without the Intel
C++ compiler for .NET 2002.  Sorry for the bad news.  The problem is that
Microsoft's C++ compiler didn't conform closely enough to the ISO C++
standard until their latest .NET 2003 release.  So if you want to use
OpenEXR code in your own projects on Windows, you've got a couple of
choices:

1. use the Intel C++ compiler for .NET 2002.
2. upgrade to .NET 2003.
3. use the C interface and the IlmImf DLL instead of the full C++ 
   interface.  You'll only have access to RGBA files, but maybe that'll be 
   sufficient for your needs.  We used to have a pre-compiled 
   version of this DLL for 1.0.7, but lost it when our project hosting
   site was compromised.  I'll try to regenerate one, though I think my 
   Intel C++ compiler license may have expired.  Anyway, I'm sure we can hook 
   you up with this one way or another.

If all you need to do is use the Photoshop plugin, grab the 1.0.7 binary
plugin and wait for OpenEXR 1.2 to be released in about a month, then grab 
the 1.2 binary plugin.


-dwh-


 On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Kevin Erickson 
wrote:

> Hello:
>  
> I am new to openEXR using MS VS .Net 2002, I read the documentation that
> indicated that openEXR has been tested on 2003.  I was hoping for some
> support for 2002 users such as myself as making an investment to 2003 is
> not in my budget.
>  
> I am having the following problems with openEXR 1.1.0:
>  
> 1)      Downloaded photoshop files to compile to build the plug-in but I
> get the following error message: "Your project file version is 7.10.
> Visual Studio .Net can only load version 7.0 project files."
> 2)      Downloaded photoshop binaries (plug-in EXRFormat.8bi) and
> installed it in the plug-ins folder, however; when starting Photoshop
> the following error message appeared: "This application has failed to
> start because MSVCP71D.dll was not found.  Re-installing the application
> may fix this problem."  Then pressing OK and photoshop loads.  I have
> done this with Photoshop 7 and CS on two different machines.  In
> researching the web, I found that the "D" in the name of the .dll is for
> debug and is not to be redistributed.
> 3)      In the Readme file for the Photoshop plug-in it says, "open the
> project file "Photoshop/win32/EXRFormat.dsw" in VC++."  However, the
> only files that are in the win32 folder are:  EXRFormat.vcproj,
> EXRformat-sym.h, and EXRFormat.rc.   EXRFormat.dsw does not exist; also,
> if I am not mistaken .dsw would be a VS 6.0 file format.
>  
> I hope there are plans to make versions available that work on .Net
> 2002.  I look forward to seeing an update and anticipate being able to
> user the openEXR file format in my projects.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
>  
> Kevin Erickson
>  
>  
>