[CMake] trouble using CMake to make VTK from source

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Oct 12 08:37:02 EDT 2007


Trevis Crane wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm running winXP and want to develop in C++ using Microsoft Visual 
> Studio .NET 2003.  I downloaded the VTK source and CMake, installed 
> CMake and am trying to use it to create the .sln file for Visual 
> Studio to compile the library binaries.  So, I setup CMake by giving 
> it the source code folder and the bin folder and hit configure. I 
> select the appropriate compiler/toolchain and then It chugs along for 
> a  little while but then gives me this error:
>  
> CMake Error: Cannot find source file 
> "C:\VTK\Common\Testing\Cxx\CommonCxxTests.css" for target "CommonCxxTests"
> Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp .cxx .m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm 
> .hpp .hxx .in .txx
>  
This is the wrong mailing list.   You should post to the vtk mailing 
list.   Also, did you check to see
if the file that it could not find was actually on your disk?

-Bill



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