[vtkusers] Cross-compiling VTK CVS using CMake

[Vincent Nicolas]

Hi,

I've succesfully cross-compiled VTK nightly with CMake and MinGW under Linux. I prefer MinGW to Cygwin because it's completely OpenSource, even for commercial products, and it links angainst msvcrt.dll, which assure "linkage compatibility" with Visual Studio binaries (almost all windows-libraries are compiled with VS).

I've made two scripts for compiling VTK, which allow the use of CMake, I don't think CMake support host/target system. 
Here's my freshly created webpage about that :	http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/~nicovic

Hope it will help !

Vincent Nicolas.


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:54:47 -0500
vtkusers-request at public.kitware.com wrote:

> Is there a document that details how to setup cmake for cross-development?
> I'm trying to build i686-pc-cygwin (Cygwin) VTK on a i686-pc-linux-gnu box
> using cross-tools, and my lack of cmake guts is getting in the way. This
> is of course rather simple using configure, and I'm assuming it's quite
> doable with CMake as well.
> 
> I've tried the following two approaches, with i686-pc-linux-gnu as the
> build machine and i686-pc-cygwin as the host/target machine:
> 
> 1. Start up ccmake as usual, and then fill in all the values appropriate
> for the cross-tools. This does not work as the cmake modules are built
> for the "build" host, and is incorrect for the "host" and/or "target".
> 
> 2. Edit CMakeCache.txt built under native Cygwin, edit the various values
> to use cross-tools, and re-configure. That doesn't work either.
> 
> Does CMake have the concept for build vs host/target machines?
> 
> Regards,
> Mumit