[Insight-users] A challenge to all Windows users

Tue Dec 22 16:19:21 EST 2009

Michael-

Thanks for the response.  Did you take the challenge and build this from
scratch on a test system?

Also, can you point me to where you got Free Visual Studio Express?  I don't
want to grab the wrong thing by accident.

Michael Jackson wrote:
> 
> I would start off by downloading the Free Visual Studio Express. You  
> can only build 32 bit apps with it** but it is known to work for ITK  
> and CMake.
> 
>   Download the Prebuilt Binary for CMake from CMake.org
>   Install it (Take all the defaults)
>   Download and install VS Express 2008. Use all the defaults for  
> installation.
> 
>   Download and uncompress ITK from sourceforge link. Make sure the  
> directory where ITK is uncompressed is C:\InsightToolkit-3.16.0
> 
>   Launch "CMake-Gui.exe"
> 
>   Fill in the "Where is the Source Code" C:\InsightToolkit-3.14.0
>   Fill in the "Where to build the binaries" C: 
> \InsightToolkit-3.14.0\i386
> 
>   Click the "Configure Button", a new dialog will appear. Select the  
> "Visual Studio 2008" Generator. Click OK. Let that go for a while. Go  
> get some coffee. When you come back click the "Generate" button. When  
> that is finished, use "Windows Explorer" to open up C: 
> \InsightToolkit-3.14.0\i386. Double click "ITK.sln". After Visual  
> Studio Launches, there will be an "ALL BUILD" project down the left  
> side. Right click on that, and select "Build" from the menu. Go get  
> lunch. Come back and ITK is built.
> 
> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
> 
> On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:03 PM, URI wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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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