[vtkusers] Newbie on Cygwin

[William A. Hoffman]

Currently, the best way to build with cygwin, is to use the current VTK in the
cvs repository, which builds with CMake.   It only builds static right now,
but you can build with tcl/tk if you get the source release for those 
packages from
cygwin.

-Bill


At 11:12 AM 9/19/2001 +0200, Ryan Mitchley wrote:
>Hi to all on this list!
>
>After reading through several posts and visiting various sites I
>am still unable to build VTK on Cygwin. I have followed Mumit Khan's
>instructions for
>building with Mingw32 libraries under Cygwin for some of my existing
>projects, which now work fine. I am not certain how to proceed with VTK,
>though.
>
>I have downloaded the VTK source (should this be the Windows or Unix
>download, BTW, or is it irrelevant?). I then ran the autoconf, which
>produced a Makefile. When running the Makefile, it appears that it is trying
>to use the X terminal libraries (e.g. it tries to link in Xlib.h). I would
>like the built VTK library to use the OpenGL capabilities of my Windows
>machine. Do I have to use MESA? Basically, I am unsure what to edit amongst
>the several configuration files that came with the VTK distribution. I am a
>competent C++ programmer, but come from a Visual C++ background where I have
>not had to worry much about makefiles, etc. I am not even sure where I
>should
>tell VTK to use the -mno-cygwin option.
>
>I have made a few half-hearted attempts to edit the VTK config files, but I
>think I am poking around in the dark.
>
>I would really appreciate any assistance!
>
>Regards,
>Ryan Mitchley
>
>
>
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