[vtk-developers] Instructions for building VTK using devenv.

Will Schroeder will.schroeder at kitware.com
Thu Mar 22 05:33:58 EDT 2012


Wow! very nice, thank you Andrew.
W

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> All done, please review it and make any changes to make it clearer.
> It is now called Using Git and MSBuild to build VTK<http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/GitMSBuild> and
> is in http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK#Building_VTK .
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:40 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Please do post those instructions on the vtk wiki and add a link to
>> the page under
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK#Building_VTK
>> It is nice information to have around outside of the mailing list
>> archives.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Andrew Maclean
>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >    I have attached an html file detailing how to checkout and build VTK
>> > using devenv for separate release and debug trees. I felt I needed to
>> > document the process and then thought it might be useful to the
>> community on
>> > general.
>> >
>> > I would appreciate input as to:
>> > 1) Do the instructions work for you?
>> > 2) Is there a better way?
>> > 3) Have I missed anything?
>> > 4) Are there any more additions needed?
>> > 5) Would this be useful to put up on the Wiki?
>> >
>> > I have tried a similar approach using nmake but it takes a very long
>> time as
>> > nmake doesn't do parallel builds. I also looked at jom but decided to
>> stick
>> > with devenv as the solution files are automatically created and the
>> user can
>> > then click on VTK,sln in the VTK Debug or Release Directory and edit (if
>> > needed)/build as needed. Devenv seems to also use as much of the
>> resources
>> > on the machine as it can and, while being much much slower than gcc on
>> Linux
>> > or Mac OS, it is much faster than nmake. Having separate build and
>> release
>> > trees means that the building goes a bit faster because the solution
>> > file doesn't have to change from release to debug.or vice versa.
>> >
>> > Of course I welcome corrections and more input.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >    Andrew
>> >
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