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

[William A. Hoffman]

Mingw is supported with CMake.  You have to run the windows CMake (CMakeSetup) from an
msys prompt or a shell that has gcc/c++ in the path and working from the command line.
(i.e. c++ foo.cxx creates a working executable.)  Then select the "Unix Makefiles".
I can't remember, but I think there were some issues with VTK, but CMake itself is tested
nightly on MinGW, so the CMake part does work.

-Bill


At 03:53 PM 6/17/2004, Matt Valerio 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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