[vtkusers] Windows 2000 Professional Install Problems

[Dick Dunbar]

I'm definitely missing a step here, but not for lack of trying.

I installed vtk 2.0 from the CDRom that came with the book;
it didn't work.

Next, I installed the Nightly Release (the success graph was
a lot less pink then :-), and still could not get it to work.

Now, I'm installing the official 312 release, pointed to by:

http://www.kitware.com/vtkhtml/vtkdata/HowToGetSoftware.html

Where should I have looked for the install instructions?

  - vtktcl.dll is in \winnt\system32, dated 4/5/2000, 2152 KB
  - .tcl extension is associated with c:\vtk\vtk31\tk8.2\wish82.exe
  - Simple applications fail, like vtk31\examples\mace.tcl

     invalid command name "vtRenderer"
     while executing "vktRenderer ren1"
     (file "C:\vkt\vkt31\examples\mace.tcl" line 8)

All I have are tcl examples; where are the examplesCxx windows executables ?

1) Install steps:
   vkt312Core.exe  (override to place in c:\vkt .. not c:\program files )
   vkt312Tcl.exe
   vkt312Cpp.exe   (only has libraries, no executables? )
   vkt312Java.exe

2) vktExamplesOnly.tar.gz
   Is a bit clumsy to deal with, because the internal subdirectory
   is named "vkt" while the other executables are placing things
   in "vkt312".

3) I now have two sets of example directories:

   From vktExamplesOnly.tar.gz
     c:\vkt\examples
       .\common\examplesTcl
       .\contrib\examplesTcl
       .\graphics\examplesTcl  .\RenderMan
       .\imaging\examplesTcl
       .\patented\examplesTcl

   From vkt312Tcl.exe (I think):
     c:\vkt\vkt31\examples

CodeWarrior is my usual Windows development environment, but
while I'm trying to get tcl working, I installed Visual Studio
6.0 .... whew ... it'll take some getting used to.
Do I have to build my own windows Cxx examples?