# VTK Module Init error.

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015 "2019-05-24T05:56:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/kim_william/32/373_2.png) [@Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Kim_William)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/1 "2019-05-24T05:56:33Z")

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Hi all.

I have a question about VTK\_MODULE\_INIT.

My environment is as below:  
IDE: Visual Studio 2015 MFC (dialog based project)  
SDK: VTK 8.9

I have tested the sample code ‘LinePlot’.  
Link: [https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/Plotting/LinePlot/](https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/Plotting/LinePlot/)

And I made a project file based on ‘LinePlot’, and inserted the macro:  
VTK\_MODULE\_INIT(vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2);  
VTK\_MODULE\_INIT(vtkRenderingOpenGL2);  
VTK\_MODULE\_INIT(vtkInteractionStyle);

It works well. There is no problem.

But, the other new project has a problem.

 ![error](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/31fe0127599d974356ba70a3d13c393ee6ae73ab.png)

I really don’t know how can I resolve this problem.

Could you please help me?

Thank you

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/2 "2019-05-24T14:11:47Z")

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~~Are you using 8.2 or `master`?~~ Oh, I see the “8.9” mention above. There should be no need to add `VTK_MODULE_INIT` calls manually. Instead, in your `CMakeLists.txt`, using `vtk_module_autoinit` should handle it. If you’re not using CMake, you’ll want something like:

```auto
#define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT 2(vtkRenderingOpenGL2,vtkInteractionStyle)
#define vtkRenderingContext2D_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2)

```

at the very top should work. You’ll need to link all of the mentioned libraries.

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### Author: ![Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/kim_william/32/373_2.png) [@Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Kim_William)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/3 "2019-05-29T05:41:36Z")

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Hi Ben.

I tried to test with the code as below:

```
#include <vtkAutoInit.h>
#define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT 2(vtkRenderingOpenGL2,vtkInteractionStyle)
#define vtkRenderingContext2D_AUTOINIT 1(vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2)

#include <vtkContextView.h>
#include <vtkChartXY.h>
#include <vtkContextScene.h>
#include <vtkAxis.h>
#include <vtkTextProperty.h>
#include <vtkPen.h>
#include <vtkPlot.h>

```

But the symptom is the same.

Is there another way to solve this issue? 😢

Thank you

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/4 "2019-05-29T12:13:32Z")

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Are you also linking to the `vtkRenderingOpenGL2` and other mentioned libraries?

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### Author: ![Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/kim_william/32/373_2.png) [@Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Kim_William)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/5 "2019-05-30T08:01:39Z")

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Yes, I have input all the libraries list.

 ![libraries](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/cbfa38bfbae07f7221b8eec479868c82d9a59489.png)

I found something strange.  
If I create a new project about the VTK chart example, it works well.  
There is no problem.

All configurations are the same.  
But… I don’t have an idea about what is the problem…

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/6 "2019-05-30T12:41:35Z")

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You’re also missing `vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2` and `vtkRenderingContext2D` it seems. Please paste the _full_ library list you’re linking against.

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### Author: ![Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/kim_william/32/373_2.png) [@Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Kim_William)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/7 "2019-05-30T23:41:17Z")

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Hi Ben.

Thank you for your help 🙂

There are include list:

```
#include <vtkAutoInit.h>

#define vtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT 2(vtkRenderingOpenGL2,vtkInteractionStyle)
#define vtkRenderingContext2D_AUTOINIT 2(vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2, vtkRenderingContext2D)

#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkObject.h>

#include <vtkPLYReader.h>
#include <vtkLookupTable.h>
#include <vtkPointGaussianMapper.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkAxesActor.h>
#include <vtkTransform.h>
#include <vtkOrientationMarkerWidget.h>
#include <vtkHandleWidget.h>
#include <vtkDelimitedTextReader.h>
#include <vtkTable.h>
#include <vtkDoubleArray.h>
#include <vtkPoints.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkVertexGlyphFilter.h>
#include <vtkVersionMacros.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkFloatArray.h>

#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkPointData.h>
#include <vtkScalarBarActor.h>
#include <vtkColorSeries.h>
#include <vtkColorTransferFunction.h>
#include <vtkDataSetMapper.h>
#include <vtkPropPicker.h>
#include <vtkObjectFactory.h>
#include <vtkCellPicker.h>
#include <vtkAreaPicker.h>
#include <vtkContextView.h>
#include <vtkChartXY.h>
#include <vtkContextScene.h>
#include <vtkAxis.h>
#include <vtkTextProperty.h>
#include <vtkPen.h>
#include <vtkPlot.h>

```

And additional library list:

```
vtkChartsCore-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonColor-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonComputationalGeometry-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonCore-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonDataModel-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonExecutionModel-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonMath-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonMisc-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonSystem-8.90d.lib
vtkCommonTransforms-8.90d.lib
vtkDICOMParser-8.90d.lib
vtkDomainsChemistry-8.90d.lib
vtkdoubleconversion-8.90d.lib
vtkexodusII-8.90d.lib
vtkexpat-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersAMR-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersCore-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersExtraction-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersFlowPaths-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersGeneral-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersGeneric-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersGeometry-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersHybrid-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersHyperTree-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersImaging-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersModeling-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersParallel-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersParallelImaging-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersPoints-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersProgrammable-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersSelection-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersSMP-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersSources-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersStatistics-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersTexture-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersTopology-8.90d.lib
vtkFiltersVerdict-8.90d.lib
vtkfreetype-8.90d.lib
vtkGeovisCore-8.90d.lib
vtkgl2ps-8.90d.lib
vtkglew-8.90d.lib
vtkhdf5-8.90d.lib
vtkhdf5_hl-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingColor-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingCore-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingFourier-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingGeneral-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingHybrid-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingMath-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingMorphological-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingSources-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingStatistics-8.90d.lib
vtkImagingStencil-8.90d.lib
vtkInfovisCore-8.90d.lib
vtkInfovisLayout-8.90d.lib
vtkInteractionImage-8.90d.lib
vtkInteractionStyle-8.90d.lib
vtkInteractionWidgets-8.90d.lib
vtkIOAMR-8.90d.lib
vtkIOAsynchronous-8.90d.lib
vtkIOCityGML-8.90d.lib
vtkIOCore-8.90d.lib
vtkIOEnSight-8.90d.lib
vtkIOExodus-8.90d.lib
vtkIOExport-8.90d.lib
vtkIOExportGL2PS-8.90d.lib
vtkIOExportPDF-8.90d.lib
vtkIOGeometry-8.90d.lib
vtkIOImage-8.90d.lib
vtkIOImport-8.90d.lib
vtkIOInfovis-8.90d.lib
vtkIOLegacy-8.90d.lib
vtkIOLSDyna-8.90d.lib
vtkIOMINC-8.90d.lib
vtkIOMotionFX-8.90d.lib
vtkIOMovie-8.90d.lib
vtkIONetCDF-8.90d.lib
vtkIOOggTheora-8.90d.lib
vtkIOParallel-8.90d.lib
vtkIOParallelXML-8.90d.lib
vtkIOPLY-8.90d.lib
vtkIOSegY-8.90d.lib
vtkIOSQL-8.90d.lib
vtkIOTecplotTable-8.90d.lib
vtkIOVeraOut-8.90d.lib
vtkIOVideo-8.90d.lib
vtkIOXML-8.90d.lib
vtkIOXMLParser-8.90d.lib
vtkjpeg-8.90d.lib
vtkjsoncpp-8.90d.lib
vtklibharu-8.90d.lib
vtklibproj-8.90d.lib
vtklibxml2-8.90d.lib
vtkloguru-8.90d.lib
vtklz4-8.90d.lib
vtklzma-8.90d.lib
vtkmetaio-8.90d.lib
vtknetcdf-8.90d.lib
vtkogg-8.90d.lib
vtkParallelCore-8.90d.lib
vtkpng-8.90d.lib
vtkpugixml-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingAnnotation-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingContext2D-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingCore-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingFreeType-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingImage-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingLabel-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingLOD-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingOpenGL2-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingParallel-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingVolume-8.90d.lib
vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL2-8.90d.lib
vtksqlite-8.90d.lib
vtksys-8.90d.lib
vtkTestingRendering-8.90d.lib
vtktheora-8.90d.lib
vtktiff-8.90d.lib
vtkverdict-8.90d.lib
vtkViewsCore-8.90d.lib
vtkViewsInfovis-8.90d.lib
vtkWrappingTools-8.90d.lib
vtkzlib-8.90d.lib
```

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### Author: ![Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/kim_william/32/373_2.png) [@Kim\_William](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Kim_William)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-module-init-error/1015/8 "2019-05-30T23:46:44Z")

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Oh… Ben!

I found that I missed the ‘vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2-8.90d.lib’!

So sorry and thank you for your help 🙂