[vtkusers] Installing VTK 4.2 on PC

[Amy Henderson]

At 06:41 AM 2/25/2004, Andres Kurkit wrote:
>Hello,
>I am trying to install VTK 4.2 on my PC (Windows XP). I am following
>the instructions included in the Readme file that came with VTK:
>
>PC Installation
>
>  1) Install the VTK 4.2 distribution by unzipping into the
>     appropriate directory.
>
>  2) Execute CMakeSetup. This will pop-up a little
>     GUI that allows you to tailor the build. It then starts
>     building .dsw and .dsp files for Microsoft, or makefiles for
>Borland.
>     You'll have to tell CMakeSetup where you've placed your VTK source
>     code, and where to build the object code and dll's
>     (we'll call it "vtkbin").
>
>  3) When CMakeSetup completes, start up msdev and load VTK.dsw.
>     Select ALL_BUILD project, and build it.
>
>
>I have unzipped the source to C:\VTK and am now trying to get the cmake
>stuff to work. I start CMakeSetup and then set the source directory to
>c:\vtk and the destination directory to c:\vtk\builds. I select Build For
>Visual Studio. I then click
>configure as OK is grayed out.

Did you actually build VTK? Running CMakeSetup does not compile VTK for 
you; on Windows it just creates the .dsw file for you to load into Visual 
Studio. If you don't want to compile VTK yourself, you can download the 
Windows binaries from http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#release in the 
"Wintel Pre-Compiled Binaries (Windows 9x/NT)" section.

- Amy

>After that, I try to run one of the available examples in 
>Vtk/Examples/Rendering/Tcl
>and It shows the following error:
>cant not find package vtk while executing "package require vtk"
>
>What is the Problem in the installion?
>
>
>Thanks
>
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