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

[Vincent Nicolas]

Hi Matt,

I've just put an archive with a compiled version of VTK (october 2003) which works with Dev-Cpp and a sample test project for Dev-Cpp.

You can found it on this site : http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/~nicovic

I think it could be possible to compile VTK using Makefile generated by CMake (or at least with minor modifications), but the big problem is that Dev-Cpp don't yet support multi-output project. As VTK has several output (libCommon, libRendering, ...), it's not possible to compile the whole VTK at once !
You should generate projects for each library of VTK.

An simplier way may be to use Mingw and MSys (shell for mingw) and compile it with the command line compiler.


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 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:19:25 -0400
Matt Valerio <m-valerio at onu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Vincent!
> 
> I just knew someone had already figured it out. :)
> 
> Yes, I would be extremely interested in getting an archive of your 
> current version of VTK. :)
> 
> I also want to figure out how to compile the VTK source with MinGW using 
> Dev-C++.  The problem lies with CMake not having a MinGW target.
> 
> Do you think it would work if I ran cmake from Cygwin to generate UNIX 
> Makefiles and then used those makefiles from within Dev-Cpp to compile 
> VTK from the source?  I'm not sure how compatible the Makefile.win that 
> Dev-Cpp uses is with GNU Makefiles, but I think I might be able to coax 
> it into working.  Good idea.
> 
> Thanks!
> Matt
>