[vtkusers] VTK with Mingw/GCC and Dev-Cpp IDE

[Vincent Nicolas]

Hi Matt,

I'm using VTK with Dev-C++ ... but I haven't compiled VTK with Dev-C++, mainly due to te lack of support to generate correct Makefile for gcc (not cygwin) on Windows.

I've compiled VTK with the mingw32 compiler on linux (cross-compiler), it could also be done with the mingw32 compiler on Cygwin (not the cygwin compiler), but I've never done it.

In fact, you should compile it in shared library mode, and have .dll output libraries. They could be use with Dev-Cpp.

If you want, I could make an archive with my current compiled version (earlier than 4.2, nightly of september 2003, but I will compile a new nighlty soon) and put it on a website. Python, Tcl and Java support are not compiled !

Say me if you are interested.


Vincent NICOLAS
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Communications and Remote Sensing Lab.
Universite catholique de Louvain
vincent.nicolas at tele.ucl.ac.be
+32 (0)10 478555
http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be


On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:53:31 -0400
Matt Valerio <m-valerio at onu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone had any luck using VTK and/or CMake with the (freeware) 
> Dev-Cpp IDE?
> 
> Dev-Cpp runs on Win32, but uses a port of GCC called Mingw to do the 
> compilation, and requires Linux-style libraries (.a extension), while 
> the precompiled version of VTK for Win32 uses .lib libraries.
> 
> I tried to compile Linux-style libraries using the VTK source.  That 
> required that I install CMake for Cygwin, which compiled fine from the 
> CMake source.  Then I was sucessful in creating all of the .a libraries 
> with the VTK source, after running CMake and then make.
> 
> However, these .a libraries will not link correctly using Mingw.
> 
> Are there any plans to support Mingw targets in CMake?  I tried creating 
> "Unix Makefiles' with the win32 version of CMake, but it complained of 
> serious configuration errors and did not work, even after I pointed it 
> to the correct Mingw executables such as ar.exe, gcc.exe, and g++.exe.
> 
> Any experiences or information I can find out regarding this subject 
> would be greatly appreciated!  I want to be able to use VTK but I am a 
> poor college kid and cannot afford Visual Studio.  Dev-Cpp is the best 
> freeware C/C++ compiler I have found.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt V.
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