[Paraview-developers] Compiling under cygwin

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Thu Sep 24 16:01:19 EDT 2009 

If you are adventurous enough, you can even use make from cygwin with
the Visual Studio compiler. I believe it is a matter of using the VS
compilers and setting the generator to makefiles. Plus, if you have a
more recent version of VS (I believe 2009 or later), you can do
parallel builds using make -j n

-berk

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Kerr <rakerr at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Sounds good, thanks!
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Scott, W Alan wrote:
>
>> Correct.  This is using the visual 2005 compiler.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Robert Kerr [mailto:rakerr at sandia.gov]
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:37 PM
>>> To: Scott, W Alan
>>> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>>> Subject: RE: [Paraview-developers] Compiling under cygwin
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Alan,
>>> From what I see, this is a way of building under cygwin, but
>>> using the Visual Studio compilers, right?
>>>
>>> -bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Scott, W Alan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>> No.
>>>> I think it can be done here: http://paraview.markmail.org/
>>>>
>>>> What I did was run the normal cmd window that Visual
>>>
>>> provides.  This tells you what your PATH and other
>>> environment vars should be.  I then make a .sh file, which
>>> sets these variables up.  One heads up - be sure to pick up
>>> your MS libraries before Cygwin - otherwise you try to link
>>> with the cygwin linker rather than the visual linker.  In my
>>> example, notice that PATH=...bla...:$PATH.  $PATH must be at the end.
>>>>
>>>> Here is what is in my .sh file.  I have no idea if most of
>>>
>>> it could be deleted, but it does work.
>>>>
>>>> Also, don't forget to run cmake before running this script.
>>>>
>>>> Alan Scott
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>
>>>> EnvDir="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\Common7\\IDE"
>>>> export DevEnvDir
>>>>
>>>> FrameworkDir="C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework"
>>>> export FrameworkDir
>>>>
>>>> FrameworkSDKDir="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>
>>> 8\\SDK\\v2.0"
>>>>
>>>> export FrameworkSDKDir
>>>>
>>>> FrameworkVersion="v2.0.50727"
>>>> export FrameworkVersion
>>>>
>>>> INCLUDE="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>
>>> 8\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 8\VC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
>>> SDKs\Windows\v6.1\include;"
>>>>
>>>> export INCLUDE
>>>>
>>>> LIB="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>
>>> 8\\VC\\PlatformSDK\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 8\\SDK\\v2.0\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 8\\VC\\PlatformSDK\\Lib;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft
>>> Visual Studio 8\\VC\\atlmfc\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft
>>> Visual Studio 8\\VC\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft
>>> SDKs\\Windows\\v6.1\\Lib;C:/WINDOWS/system32/;C:\\Python25\\libs;"
>>>>
>>>> export LIB
>>>>
>>>>
>>> LIBPATH="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Prog
>>
>> ram Files\MicrosoftVisual Studio 8\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\qt\4.5.1"
>>>>
>>>> export LIBPATH
>>>>
>>>> PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>
>>> 8/Common7/IDE:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 8/VC/BIN:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 8/Common7/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
>>> Visual Studio 8/Common7/Tools/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 8/VC/PlatformSDK/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
>>> Visual Studio
>>> 8/SDK/v2.0/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.
>>> 0.50727:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 8/VC/VCPackages:/cygdrive/c/qt/4.5.1/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/CEI/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/CEI/ensight90/machines/win32/lib_abaqus:/cygdrive/c/prog
>>> ram
>>> files/imagemagick-6.3.6-q16:/cygdrive/c/Tcl/bin:/cygdrive/c/Pr
>>
>> ogram Files/CMake >
>> 2.4/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygd
>>>
>>> rive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Windows
>>> Imaging/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.1/bin:/cygdri!
>>>  ve/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
>>> Server/90/Tools/binn/:Framework32/:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>> Files/TortoiseSVN/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Diskeeper
>>> Corporation/Diskeeper/:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/F-Secure/ssh:/cygd
>>
>> rive/c/Program Files/Diskeeper >
>> Corporation/Diskeeper/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common
>>>
>>> Files/Adaptec Shared/System:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/NVIDIA
>>> Corporation/Cg/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/F-Secure/ssh:/cygdrive
>>
>> /c/Python25:/cygdrive/c/Python25/Scripts:/cygdrive/c/Python25/DL>
>> Ls:/cygdrive/c/Python25/Lib/site-packages/vtk_python:/cygdrive
>> /c/Python25/Lib/site-packages/wx-2.6-msw-unicode->
>> enthought/wx:/cygdrive/c/Program
>>>
>>> Files/CVSNT/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/CMake 2.6/bin":$PATH
>>>>
>>>> export PATH
>>>>
>>>> VCINSTALLDIR="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC"
>>>>
>>>> export VCINSTALLDIR
>>>>
>>>> nmake
>>>> nmake HTMLDocumentation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org
>>>>> [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org] On
>>>
>>> Behalf Of Robert
>>>>>
>>>>> Kerr
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:41 PM
>>>>> To: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>>>>> Subject: [Paraview-developers] Compiling under cygwin
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I'm sure this has been asked before, but I haven't figured
>>>
>>> out how to
>>>>>
>>>>> search the archives of this list yet, so I apologize.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, I'd like to compile ParaView/VTK under cygwin in Windows.
>>>>> Has this been successfully done in the past?  Is there a
>>>
>>> repository
>>>>>
>>>>> of information for doing this?
>>>>>
>>>>> And, ancillary question, is there a way to search the archives of
>>>>> this mailing list?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -bob
>>>>>
>>>>> 67 percent of men are stupid--I belong to the other 13 percent.
>>>>>
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>
> I'm at a complete loss for...um... those things that are made out
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