[vtkusers] vtk 5.1 building with mingw

[Srinivasan, Rajagopalan (GE Healthcare)]

awesome. the trick was to run from msys prompt. it has built now. thanks a whole bunch.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:53 AM
> To: Srinivasan, Rajagopalan (GE Healthcare)
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk 5.1 building with mingw
> 
> 
> 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 
> >
> >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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >regards
> >srini
> >
> >
> >
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