[vtkusers] Compiling VTK with DevCpp and MinGW

[David Cole]

Do you have to use VTK 4.4?

Can you update to the latest VTK from CVS? This does build under MinGW 
with no source code changes. (See evidence at : 
http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/ARRAKIS.kitware/Win32-mingw/20050720-0300-Nightly/Test.html)

If I can make some time to investigate, I'll see if I can figure out a 
patch to apply on top of a VTK 4.4 source tree to allow building with 
MinGW. No promises, though. May not be for a while. If somebody else has 
already done this, please chime in...

Thanks,
David

Dimitrios Andritsos wrote:

> I am using CMake 2.0.6 and I am trying to build vtk 4.4.
>
> I played a little bit with CMakeLists.txt files where I tried to 
> comment out any attempts to load support for either tcl, python or 
> java and although I didn't get the dll erros I still get an error that 
> the command vtk_make_instantiator2 cannot be found. The errors are 
> generated if I comment out loading vtkLoadCmakeExtensions and 
> vtkCompileCmakeExtensions. I am not a CMake guru so I don't really 
> know how to do such changes.
>
> Dimitris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cole" <david.cole at kitware.com>
> To: "Dimitrios Andritsos" <jimandr at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compiling VTK with DevCpp and MinGW
>
>
>> Hmmmm...
>>
>> So: what version of CMake are you using? (I was assuming latest 
>> released or CVS: 2.0.6 or later?)
>> What version of VTK are you trying to build?
>> I have only built VTK from recent CVS with MinGW. Can you update your 
>> VTK to latest CVS?
>>
>> Dimitrios Andritsos wrote:
>>
>>> Hello David,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply. I don't need Tcl but I am not really sure 
>>> how to turn this option off. The error that I am getting is 
>>> generated while CMake tries to configure and generate the initial 
>>> makefiles, before I get the option of turning the various wrapping 
>>> options on or off. Do you know if I could turn the Tcl wrapping 
>>> option off even before cmake tries to configure the makefiles?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Dimitris
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cole" 
>>> <david.cole at kitware.com>
>>> To: "Dimitrios Andritsos" <jimandr at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:44 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Compiling VTK with DevCpp and MinGW
>>>
>>>
>>>> It sounds like you have VTK_WRAP_TCL turned on. I'm not sure if TCL
>>>> wrapping will work from a MinGW compile, unless there's a MinGW
>>>> supported version of Tcl/Tk that you can install. You'll need the libs
>>>> to link against.
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody out there done a Tcl wrapped build of VTK under MinGW?
>>>>
>>>> Do you still get that error if you set VTK_WRAP_TCL to OFF when you
>>>> configure with CMakeSetup?
>>>> Do you need TCL wrapping?
>>>>
>>>> HTH a little bit,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Dimitrios Andritsos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>  I' ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to build vtk with the mingw 
>>>>> compiler in windows. From some previous posts I saw that runing 
>>>>> cmake via msys would work but I get an error message that:
>>>>>  'LOAD_COMMAND Attempt to load command failed from file: 
>>>>> cmVTK_WRAP_TCL2.dll' The process I follow is: 1)Run msys 2)Run 
>>>>> cmakesetup (cmake -i is not working) 3)Try to generate unix 
>>>>> makefiles.
>>>>>  My goal is to build *.a lib files and in general build the vtk 
>>>>> binaries in unix format to use within the dev-cpp environment.
>>>>>  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>> Dimitris
>>>>>
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