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

[William A. Hoffman]

Have a look at CMakeError.log and CMakeOutput.log and see if you can
see why it can not build the test programs.

-Bill


At 04:08 PM 1/25/2005, Alexis H. Rivera-Rios wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I selected the Visual Studion 8 option (it's the only
>option that works in my system) and I made sure the
>CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is correct.  Still, it doesn't
>work. Any other pointers?
>
>I'm using the XP Service Pack 2 SDK Update and I'm
>running on an XP Service Pack 2. I don't know if this
>matters.
>
>Thanks,
>Alexis
>
>--- "William A. Hoffman" <billlist at nycap.rr.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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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