[Insight-users] A challenge to all Windows users

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Hello all-

Many of you have probably been following my epic struggles to get ITK
working under Windows in another thread.  I have decided that the solution
to my problem might be more forthcoming if I issue a challenge to all the
Windows users out there.

I realize that many of you have ITK up and running and you have no problems
compiling it.  My guess is that you got your systems set up and worked out
the bugs when you started and have just been cruising along since then.  I
am trying to get ITK working for the first time and have had nothing but
trouble, and even after sorting out some major mistakes caused by my
inexperience my errors seem to be confusing to the people who are trying to
help me.  So this brings me to the challenge.

I would like some of you Windows users to start fresh on a computer that has
never had ITK or CMake or MinGW or any of that stuff on it and get ITK
running from scratch, and then tell me step by step what you have done.  The
reason I ask you to start with a system that has never had any of these
programs installed is in case there are any hidden configuration issues that
are already set on your existing systems (environment variables, registry
settings, anything like that).

I have tried to get ITK working on two different systems, the first is
64-bit Windows 7 and the second is 32-bit Windows XP SP3.  I don't have any
particular affinity for any specific compiler, I have been trying to use
MinGW but if there is something else that works (preferably free) I am open
to anything.  I think maybe this would be easier than me saying "Ok, now I'm
getting this error" and having people try to figure out what I've done
wrong.

If someone can accept the challenge please respond with the steps you used
to get ITK up and running from scratch, including things like:

1) where you downloaded the installation files
2) what settings you used when installing each program
3) what changes you made (if any) to your PATH variable
4) the directory names you used when installing
5) how you configured CMake (i.e. which directory did you use for your
source and bin directories; what variable settings did you use)


Basically everything and anything that could potentially cause a problem if
not done correctly by a novice.  I can't believe that I'm the only open
source/CMake/ITK novice who has run into these problems, and so I think lots
of people would benefit from these sort of instructions.
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