[vtkusers] vtk 5.1 building with mingw

[David Cole]

The pre-built CMake binary for Windows will allow you to compile and 
test using mingw. The trick is to run cmake from an MSYS prompt (a 
"mingw environment") and specify -G"Unix Makefiles".

So....
If I'm in a VTK source directory, running this from an MSYS prompt 
should work to produce a binary tree in a subdir called "bin-mingw":
  mkdir bin-mingw
  cd bin-mingw
  cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" ..

Alternatively, you can launch CMakeSetup from that environment and 
choose "Unix Makefiles" as your generator in there and point it to your 
desired source and binary directories. The trick is simply launching 
CMake or CMakeSetup from the correct environment.

How are you trying to build CMake when you get the following errors? 
With "./bootstrap"?

(Also, search the VTK archives for mingw and my name... I remember 
posting other messages with more details back in the March to May sort 
of time frame this year.)

Hope this helps,
David


Srinivasan, Rajagopalan (GE Healthcare) wrote:

>can someone give me some hints on how get a mingw build of vtk. i cannot get cmake built because of 
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>cmSystemTools.o(.text+0x2cdb):cmSystemTools.cxx: undefined reference to `cmWin32ProcessExecution::~cmWin32ProcessExecution()'
>cmSystemTools.o(.text+0x2d08):cmSystemTools.cxx: undefined reference to `cmWin32ProcessExecution::~cmWin32ProcessExecution()'
>ProcessUNIX.o(.text+0x1f2):ProcessUNIX.c: undefined reference to `cmsysEncodedWriteArrayProcessFwd9x'
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [cmake] Error 1
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>of course, if i can have a prebuilt binary that might allow me to compile and test using mingw that will be wonderful as well.
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>regards
>srini
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