[Ctk-developers] getting things to work in windows

Thu Jan 13 14:35:07 EST 2011

Hi mark,

I don't know if it is up to date, but Arnaud had set up a page for that
here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gofigure2/wiki/DeveloperSetUpWindows

Alex.

On 13/01/2011 12:30 PM, "Mark Roden" <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_cr
>>>>>>>> eate_more/Troll/4.6/qt/lib
>>>>>>>> Warning:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> C:/qt-greenhouse/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Trolltech/Code_less_cr
>>>>>>>> eate_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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