[CMake] configuration of VTK 5.8 using cmake 2.6 on 64-bit windows 7

[rakesh patil]

Ok fine.. anyways, with _WIN64 flag mpistub.lib is not being generated in
VTK .. so I have no option then to use win32 flag.. But what about my first
question? can i use 32bit version of cmake on 64-bit windows to configure
64bit mode of VTK ???

Thanks

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:51 PM, rakesh patil <prakeshofficial at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to compile VTK 5.8 for 64bit windows machine. I have cmake 2.6 for
> > 32-bit windows. I downloaded vtk source code from www.vtk.org website.
> While
> > configuring, I select Visual Studio 9(64) and continued configuration.
> Then
> > I made following changes
> >
> > CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS = /D_WIN64 /D_WINDOWS (Default was /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS)
> > CMAKE_C_FLAGS = /D_WIN64 /D_WINDOWS (Default was /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS)
> > CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = Appropriate path where lib, header and dll files
> will
> > be saved
> > VTK_DATA_ROOT = Path where vtk data resides.
> >
> > Now what i want to ask is that
> > 1) Is it perfectly fine to use 32-bit version of cmake to compile 64bit
> > version of VTK?
>
> Yes. I have done that dozens of times.
>
> > 2) What effect will it be if WIN32 is replaced with _WIN64 in flags
> above?
> >
>
> I can't answer that. I have never ever set _WIN64 for any of my 64 bit
> builds and I have been programming in 64 bit Visual Studio with cmake
> for over 2 years.
>
> John
>
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