[vtkusers] cannot compile vtk with cmake 2.05 and vc++ 8 2005

[William A. Hoffman]

I just tried it here and it worked fine.
Make sure you pick the Visual Studio 8 2005 generator in
the Build for box of cmake.  

Also make sure VCExpress.exe is in your path, when cmake is
run it should create this cache entry:

CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM:FILEPATH=C:/PROGRA~1/MID05A~1/Common7/IDE/VCExpress.exe

-Bill

At 02:52 PM 1/25/2005, Alexis H. Rivera-Rios wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Im trying to compile VTK with Cmake 2.0 patch 5 on a
>WinXP box using Visual C++ 8 2005 Express.
>
>When I hit the configure button, cmake starts the
>configuration process and I get this error:
>
>Check size of int:
>CMake Error: Unable to find executable for
>TRY_RUNC:/opt/vtk_build/CMakeTmp/Debug/cmTryCompileExec.exe
>
>If I hit ok, I still get the same error for the
>following tests:
>Check size long, void*, char, short, float, double,
>long long, __int64
>Checking signedness of char
>Looking for pthread.h
>Checking old streams end-of-file bug level
>
>Then I get this other error when checking if the
>system is bigendian:
>CMake Error: An attempt was made to access a variable:
>CMAKE_WORDS_BIGENDIAN that has not been defined. Some
>variables were always defined by CMake in versions
>prior to 1.6. To fix this you might need to set the
>cache value of CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY to 1.4 or
>less. If you are writing a CMakeList file, (or have
>already set CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATABILITY to 1.4 or
>less) then you probably need to include a CMake module
>to test for the feature this variable defines.
>
>It also happens when 
>checking CXX include file sstream
>checking support for c++ explicit template
>instantiation - yes
>
>Then I get a whole bunch of the same errors during the
>configuration (no message in the status bar).
>
>At that point, I get the cache values shown, which I
>can modify... but I don't get the ok button to be
>enabled.
>
>I click on configure again, I get the same errors.
>
>
>Other errors that I got when I ran cmake from the
>command line are the following:
>CMake Error: An attempt was made to access a variable:
>CMAKE_SIZEOF_INT that has not been defined. Some
>variables were always defined by CMake in versions
>prior to 1.6. To fix this you might need to set the
>cache value of CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY to 1.4 or
>less. If you are writing a CMakeList file, (or have
>already set CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATABILITY to 1.4 or
>less) then you probably need to include a CMake module
>to test for the feature this variable defines.
>
>Has anybody seen this errors trying to compile VTK?
>How to I resolve this?  By the way, I try to download
>the latest version of CMake to build it from scratch,
>but I got the same errors trying to build cmake too. 
>I also tried older versions of Cmake that support
>visual c++ 8 and I got the same error there too.
>
>Thanks,
>Alexis
>
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