[vtk-developers] cygwin build problems

[Brian Spiegel]

I have been using cygwin for a while and when trying to build vtk it I have 
run into these errors





Building shared library /home/Hive/VTKBuild/bin/libvtkRendering.dll...

Building object file vtkTkRenderWidget.o...

In file included from ../../VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84/tkPort.h:27,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84/tkInt.h:27,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84/tkWinInt.h:21,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx:34:

../../VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84/tkWinPort.h:45:19: tchar.h: No such 
file or

directory

../../VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84/tkWinPort.h:58:1: warning: "OPEN_MAX" 
redef

ined

In file included from 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/include/limits.h:122

,

                 from 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/include/syslimits.h:

7,

                 from 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/include/limits.h:11,



                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/climits:49,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/bits/stl_algobase.h:66,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/memory:54,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/string:48,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/bits/locale_classes.h:47,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/bits/ios_base.h:47,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/ios:49,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/ostream:45,

                 from /usr/include/c++/3.3.3/iostream:45,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkIOStream.h:34,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkSystemIncludes.h:49,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkIndent.h:27,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkObjectBase.h:46,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkObject.h:44,

                 from ../../VTK/Common/vtkWindow.h:29,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/vtkRenderWindow.h:44,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/vtkTkRenderWidget.h:35,

                 from ../../VTK/Rendering/vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx:20:

/usr/include/limits.h:143:1: warning: this is the location of the previous 
defin

ition

../../VTK/Rendering/vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx: In function `LRESULT

   vtkTkRenderWidgetProc(HWND__*, unsigned int, unsigned int, long int)':

../../VTK/Rendering/vtkTkRenderWidget.cxx:800: error: invalid use of 
undefined

   type `struct _XDisplay'

/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:289: error: forward declaration of `struct 
_XDisplay'

make[3]: *** [vtkTkRenderWidget.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** [default_target] Error 2

make[1]: *** [default_target_Rendering] Error 2

make: *** [default_target] Error 2





Now to build vtk I’m using this help file 
http://www.mit.edu/~sylvain/vtk-itk-cygwin.pdf



But instead of using cygwin to download them I downloaded myself and put 
them into the appropriate directories.



With these changes I don’t get it and I have tried it twice from scratch



1. Compile GL2PS

cd gl2ps-1.2.3

g++ -c gl2ps.c

ar rc libgl2ps.a gl2ps.o

ranlib libgl2ps.a

cd ~

mkdir gl2psBuild

mv gl2ps-1.2.3/gl2ps.o gl2psBuild

mv gl2ps-1.2.3/libgl2ps.a gl2psBuild





2. Install CMake

mkdir CMakeBuild

cd CMake

./configure --prefix=../CMakeBuild



Use Esc and d to delete characters.



CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=-Wall -pedantic

CMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-Wall -pedantic

CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS:BOOL=ON



./configure --prefix=../CMakeBuild

cd ~/CMakeBuild

cmake ../CMake

cd ~/CMake

make

make install

cd ~

vi .bashrc

export PATH=/home/Hive/CMakeBuild/bin:$PATH

source .bashrc



3. Install VTK

cd ~

mkdir Build

mkdir VTKBuild

cd VTKBuild

cmake ../VTK



vi CMakeCache.txt



BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=ON

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON

CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=-Wall -pedantic

CMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-Wall -pedantic

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/Hive/Build

CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS:BOOL=ON

VTK_USE_GL2PS:BOOL=ON

VTK_USE_HYBRID:BOOL=ON

VTK_USE_PATENTED=ON

VTK_WRAP_TCL:BOOL=ON





cmake ../CMake



Search tkWinInt.h in your Cygwin home dir and set the file path in 
CMakeCache.txt

vi CMakeCache.txt TK_INTERNAL_PATH:PATH=/usr/src/tcltk-20030901-1/tk/win



//What is the path where the file tkWinInt.h can be found

TK_INTERNAL_PATH:PATH=/home/Hive/VTK/Rendering/tkInternals/tk84



cmake ../CMake

make