[Paraview-developers] Compiling under cygwin

pat marion pat.marion at kitware.com
Thu Sep 24 16:07:12 EDT 2009 

Off topic, but related to Berk's last sentence... I recently came
across JOM, a drop in replacement for nmake by the Qt devs that mimics
make -j n

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/03/27/speeding-up-visual-c-qt-builds/

Pat

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> -bob
>>>>
>>>> I'm at a complete loss for...um... those things that are made
>>>> out of letters and assembled into sentences.
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>> --
>> -bob
>>
>> I'm at a complete loss for...um... those things that are made out
>> of letters and assembled into sentences.
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