[vtkusers] vtk 4.4 for win32

[Mathieu Malaterre]

There is also an alternative solution:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

and

http://lists.wxwidgets.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?8:mss:58804:eddcndpfficaohoamjdo

[In a previous thread it was pointed out that the free MS VC++ toolkit
was missing some important tools like "lib.exe", "nmake.exe", "cvtres.exe".

I noticed that the Microsoft Platform SDK (also a free download,
required if you want to build Windows applications with the free VC++
compiler) comes with a "bin\win64" subdirectory that provides tools for
previewing the WIN64 platform. This directory contains compiler and
linker for the IA64 processor, but there are also the lib/nmake/cvtres
utilities and they work on WIN32.

I have installed the "Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" and the
"Microsoft Platform SDK February 2003" on my Windows XP system and did
the following settings:

set MSVC=[VC++ install dir]
set MSSDK=[Platform SDK install dir]

set INCLUDE=%MSVC%\include;%MSSDK%\include
set LIB=%MSVC%\lib;%MSSDK%\lib
set PATH=%MSVC%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin\win64;%PATH%

Please note the PATH setting: "%MSSDK%\bin\win64" must be specified
after "%MSVC%\bin" and "%MSSDK%\bin" so that only the missing WIN32
tools are searched in the WIN64 toolset.

I then was able to build the wxWidgets 2.5.1 libraries, the "minimal"
sample and the "life" demo with:

nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=release SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static

Enjoy.]

Mathieu

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"JH" == John Hunter <jdhunter at nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     JH> I need to build VTK 4.4 for win32 with several of the options
>     JH> (Patented, Hybrid) turned on as well as wrappers for
>     JH> python2.3.  I need to build a VTK installer that I can
>     JH> distribute with my noncommercial product.  I have access to
>     JH> several win32 compilers (VC6, VC7, cygwin).  My questions are
> 
> Can't resist this one:
> 
> MS OS: $100, 
> MSVC Compiler: $1000(??), 
> Time to get all this working: priceless.
> 
> 
> Seriously:
> 
>     JH> * is such a thing already available either for free or for a
>     JH>    price
> 
> What thing?
> 
>     JH> * which compiler of the ones above is recommended?
> 
> MSVC is expensive.  If you have friends with access to MSVC you need
> to get Win32 DLL's for VTK built by them with support for Python2.3.
> I am not sure if building under cygwin will work.  Particularly, how
> OpenGL acceleration etc. will work out.  Worse, I am not sure its
> going to be easy to get the Python VTK wrappers working perfectly
> under cygwin.  Easiest route seems to be to build using MSVC (if you
> have the compiler that is).  I'd like to know if this is no longer
> true.  A while back David Gobbi asked a question about using the free
> .net compiler.  I am not sure if that would work.
> 
>     JH> * should I expect this to be fairly easy?
> 
> Not easy.  So don't rush it.  Might end up taking a few days.  Two
> major issues:
> 
>  1. Getting your build working with all options along with Python and
>     all the other relevant libs (PyGTK I'd imagine) under Win32 is
>     your first hurdle.
> 
>  2. Getting the self extracting installer working with VTK will take
>     some work.  I recommend using Gordon McMillan's Installer (5b5
>     worked great):
>           http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html
> 
>     It makes life easier but will take work to get working perfectly.
>     I wrote up some instructions and a bunch of scripts to do the task
>     the last time I built the MayaVi installer.  If you want to save
>     yourself trouble let me know and I'll mail them to you.  OTOH, it
>     might be more of a distraction since most of my instructions and
>     scripts are MayaVi specific.
> 
> I used inno setup to generate the .exe file.  It is very nice.  You
> can get Inno Setup here:
>         http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php
> 
> 
>     JH> * are there any gotchas or hints I should be aware of.
> 
> The real problem is you are now working with MSVC (or some other
> compiler), VTK, Python, your-favorite-GUI-toolkit, McMillan's
> installer and InnoSetup.  You need to have a pretty decent knowledge
> of all of the above to get this working right.  So you are going to
> need a little time.  On the brighter side, you will be the third
> person on the planet *I know* who has built such a beast.  Welcome to
> the club. ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> prabhu
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