[Ctk-developers] getting things to work in windows

[Mark Roden]

I want to use visual studio.  One of the default Qt installation
options is to install mingw, so I went ahead and did it.

I'll look into compiling qt for myself, then, in visual studio.

Thanks,
Mark

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com> wrote:
> What are you trying to achieve here? do you want to use Mingw or Visual
> Studio ?
> I'm not a user of Mingw, but it seems odd that Qt installs Mingw on your
> machine.
> How did you install mingw ? do you manage to build other projects ?
> If you want to use visual studio, then you need to get Qt for Visual studio
> (if it exists) or compile qt yourself.
> Julien.
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> Ah, this may be why I'm unable to run cmake directly-- there is no
>> qmake in my d:\qt\bin directory, only in the qmake directory.
>>
>> There is a d:\qt\qt\bin directory that has a qmake in it.  Hopefully,
>> it's the same thing.
>>
>> I get this error next:
>> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
>> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:788 (MESSAGE):
>>  It appears you're trying to use Visual Studio with Qt built by mingw
>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>  CMake/ctkMacroSetupQt.cmake:29 (FIND_PACKAGE)
>>  CMakeLists.txt:280 (ctkMacroSetupQt)
>>
>> Since I selected the option to allow qt to install mingw on my system,
>> I then deleted the cmake cache and tried to rerun with the option to
>> use mingw as the makefile generator, resulting in:
>> CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to
>> "MinGW Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need
>> to select a different build tool.
>> CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to
>> "MinGW Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need
>> to select a different build tool.
>> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may
>> be not be built correctly.
>> Missing variable is:
>> CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ENV_VAR
>> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may
>> be not be built correctly.
>> Missing variable is:
>> CMAKE_C_COMPILER
>> CMake Error: Could not find cmake module
>> file:D:/src/ctk/CTK-build64/CMakeFiles/CMakeCCompiler.cmake
>> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may
>> be not be built correctly.
>> Missing variable is:
>> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ENV_VAR
>> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may
>> be not be built correctly.
>> Missing variable is:
>> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
>> CMake Error: Could not find cmake module
>> file:D:/src/ctk/CTK-build64/CMakeFiles/CMakeCXXCompiler.cmake
>> CMake Error: CMAKE_C_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
>> CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
>> Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>>
>> Any thoughts on where to go next?
>>
>> I personally think that this is a cmake problem-- it appears that Qt
>> changed their versioning to be more year-based than straight number
>> based, and that cmake hasn't updated their module to reflect that.  I
>> can't build vtk with the most recent qt either.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Mark,
>> > You should use the qmake.exe located in D:/Qt/2010.05/qt/bin instead of
>> >  D:/Qt/2010.05/qt/qmake
>> > No need to add the qt dir in the path nor locate it anywhere special.
>> > Julien.
>> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Changing the install directory to d:/qt did not work.  I don't have
>> >> any space left on my c: drive; is that the only way to get qt and ctk
>> >> to work well together, to have it be on the root drive?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > OK, I'll check it out.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is that a bug in the cmake module then?  I feel like there should be
>> >> > some place where I can specify, exactly, where qt is.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Mark
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Dean Inglis <dean.inglis at camris.ca>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> Hi Mark,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I had similar issues when building VTK with QT GUI support.
>> >> >> Try installing Qt ( qt-win-opensource-4.7.1-vs2008.exe)
>> >> >> to just D:/Qt as root instead of
>> >> >> D:/Qt/2010.05, add D:/Qt/bin and D:/Qt/qt/bin to
>> >> >> your path environment variable.  I installed to C:/Qt
>> >> >> even though all my development is done on a D: drive
>> >> >> and those issues issues have since resolved.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Dean
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roden" <mmroden at gmail.com>
>> >> >> To: <ctk-developers at commontk.org>
>> >> >> Cc: "Alexandre Gouaillard" <agouaillard at gmail.com>
>> >> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:37 PM
>> >> >> Subject: [Ctk-developers] getting things to work in windows
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> Hi all,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I'm a developer who's working on gdcm/itk/vtk, and now am trying to
>> >> >>> familiarize myself with ctk.  I apologize if this email should go
>> >> >>> to a
>> >> >>> 'users' list instead of a developers list, but google finds too
>> >> >>> many
>> >> >>> instances of 'Christ The King' for ctk to be helpful.  Also, the
>> >> >>> list
>> >> >>> that appears here doesn't contain a users version of the list (for
>> >> >>> itk
>> >> >>> or vtk either, for that matter):
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ctk-users
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Anyway, I can't get ctk to build on my machine (Windows 7 x64,
>> >> >>> vs2008).  I've installed Qt 2010.5, lgpl edition, including mingw.
>> >> >>> Trying to build ctk from the git head produces the following error,
>> >> >>> regardless of using 32bit or 64 bit compilers:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> CMake Error at CMake/ctkMacroSetupQt.cmake:55 (MESSAGE):
>> >> >>>  error: Qt4 was not found on your system.  You probably need to set
>> >> >>> the
>> >> >>>  QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE variable
>> >> >>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>> >> >>>  CMakeLists.txt:280 (ctkMacroSetupQt)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I've found the qmake exe, it's located in
>> >> >>> D:/Qt/2010.05/qt/qmake/qmake.exe, but then the cmake file reruns
>> >> >>> and
>> >> >>> changes that value to D:/Qt/2010.05/qt/qmake/qmake.exe-NOTFOUND,
>> >> >>> which
>> >> >>> is clearly incorrect.  Changing that value by hand also produces
>> >> >>> the
>> >> >>> following warning:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Warning: QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE reported QT_INSTALL_LIBS as
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> C:/qt-greenhouse/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Troll/4.6/qt/lib
>> >> >>> Warning:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> C:/qt-greenhouse/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Troll/4.6/qt/lib
>> >> >>> does NOT exist, Qt must NOT be installed correctly.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I have no qt-greenhouse directory in the C: drive, so I'm not sure
>> >> >>> where those values are coming from.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thanks for any help,
>> >> >>> Mark
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>> >> >>
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