[vtkusers] Newbie on Cygwin

[Joey Mukherjee]

>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.

I recently got VTK under Cygwin to work by hacking the makefiles, but possibly 
there is a way to make this work correctly without the hack.  Basically, I added 
the UNIX defines to the system.make file manually and then did the recompile.

My situation is a little different from Ryan's in that I am porting X software 
to run under Cygwin so I want to use the Xlib stuff that Ryan is trying to 
avoid.

Could an option be added to configure to make it handle both cases:  native 
windows and Cygwin/X?

Joey

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