# Error in Writing to a VTU image
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361 "2020-10-06T11:53:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/1 "2020-10-06T11:53:59Z")
Dear All,
I am trying to write to a VTU file from one example and it is giving the errors of the image.
Can you please inform me how to initialize such variables?
Thanks,
Luis Gonçalves
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/2 "2020-10-06T11:58:56Z")
> **[Image of an exception](https://idownvotedbecau.se/imageofanexception/)**
Please post your code as well as the text of the exception.
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/3 "2020-10-06T21:57:23Z")
I will back again on this later. I have now to prioritize another tasks.
The errors appear with #include \
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/4 "2020-10-09T10:11:04Z")
Good morning,
I isolated the code and created a new project. Seems that is deprecated features. For information it is compile time error.
See the errors:
See the program:
[Program to WriteVTU](https://www.luisgo.pro/down/ExampleVTK.cpp)
To replicate the problem:
[Project WriteVTU](https://www.luisgo.pro/down/ExampleVTK.zip)
Are there some more recent program that does what I want?
Can you provide some recent example code to write to a VTU file?
Thanks,
Luis Gonçalves
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/5 "2020-10-12T08:11:39Z")
Do not post image of exception, post the text of the exception using Copy/Paste feature.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/6 "2020-10-12T08:12:13Z")
In any case, juste enable legacy in your VTK compilation to fix the issue.
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/7 "2020-10-12T16:40:42Z")
Sorry for the image. I think you do not like but I think it is more clear.
I put the option in the image “WANT” (see cmake-gui window). If I put “YES” the VTK package compilation gives error.
But my program still giving the same compilation error if I compile VTK with “WANT”.
Thanks in Advance for the possible help.
Luis Gonçalves
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/8 "2020-10-23T15:58:14Z")
There is not solution for this question? I provided the source code and even the Visual 2017 project. What you need more?
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### Author:  [@danlipsa](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/danlipsa)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/9 "2020-10-23T16:06:32Z")
That is not the right legacy option. Probably you’ll need VTK\_LEGACY\_REMOVE=OFF and VTK\_LEGACY\_SILENT=ON
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### Author:  [@Luis\_Carlos\_Carneiro](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Luis_Carlos_Carneiro)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-in-writing-to-a-vtu-image/4361/10 "2020-10-23T17:15:36Z")
Sorry, It did not worked. See the result of the compilation. The VTK\_LEGACY\_REMOVE was already off. VTK\_LEGACY\_SILENT was toggled to ON.
