[Cmake] CMakeSetup / VTK install help

[Bill Hoffman]

CMake is only used to compile VTK.  If you are using
PRE-compiled binaries, then there is nothing to compile.

The error message is incorrect, and a bug in CMake, it
should be fixed in the next CMake release.   It will
say, there is an error, no CMakeLists.txt file exists
in your source directory.   However, it will still not do
anything, because there is nothing to do.

You may want to try the VTK mailing list for VTK specific questions.

-Bill


At 02:21 PM 6/13/2003, you wrote:
>No there is not a CMakeLists.txt in that directory at all. This has
>always frustrating because how could two files conflict with each other,
>and not exist at all? Yes, CMake is being run on the pro-compiled
>binaries from the vtk42-LatestRelease.exe.  If I am not supposed to run
>CMake on this build directory, which one is it? If I run Cmake using the
>build directory VTK_ROOT\lib\vtk, which does have .cmake files in it, I
>still get the same ..."does not match source used to generate cache..."
>
>Todd
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill . hoffman at kitware . com] 
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:10 PM
>To: Todd Schneider; cmake at public . kitware . com
>Subject: Re: [Cmake] CMakeSetup / VTK install help
>
>Check to see if the file C:/Program Files/vtk42/CMakeLists.txt  actually
>exists on your machine?
>I think you are trying to build VTK from the installed binary for VTK,
>and
>not the VTK sources.
>
>However, CMake should give a better error for this, and it is now on the
>to fix
>list.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>-Bill
>
>At 01:46 PM 6/13/2003, Todd Schneider wrote:
>
>>I have tried almost everything to get VTK to install correctly on
>WinXP.  I have gone over the instruction manuals at
><http://www . imm . dtu . dk/~rrp/>http://www . imm . dtu . dk/~rrp/, emailed the
>VTK users group several times, etc.. etc.. etc.   I run CMakeSetup using
>the build directory C:\program files\vtk42 and binaries directory
>C:\vtkbin. There are no advanced options available. As soon as I click
>configure I get this error C:/Program Files/vtk42/CMakeLists.txt does
>not match source used to generate cache: C:/Program
>Files/vtk42/CMakeLists.txtNothing I do fixes this- uninstalling VTK and
>CMake, deleting all .cmake, cmake.cache, etc.. files the errors are
>still there&there must be a better way to get VTK to work..If anyone
>knows anyway to get CMake to properly install VTK, please respond.
>Thanks in advance
>>
>> 
>>
>>Todd Schneider