[vtkusers] Compilig VTK 4.2 on WinXP with MinGW

[Matthias Langer]

Matthias Langer wrote:

> Martin Baumann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I searched the vtkuser archiv, but no mail could help me.
>>  
>> I have the latest version of MinGW, CMake and VTK (4.2). Also I 
>> installed MSYS. I don't know if
>> I really need MSYS.
>>  
>> Did anyone made it to compile VTK 4.2 with MinGW? I mean without 
>> using any
>> linux. Today I read alot of compiling VTK in Linux for Windows.
>>  
>> Is there a HOWTO for this problem?
>>  
>> I found this link http://www.dpinson.com/software/vtk/index.php where 
>> you can download makefiles
>> that you can copy in your VTK-source directory and it is said that 
>> all you have to do is enter 'make'.
>> In my case it doesn't work.
>>  
>>  
>> Thanks, Martin
>
>
> I have the same problem; It seems that vtk-4.2.6 is not compatible 
> with gcc-3.4:
> [http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2005-April/079472.html].
> I've played around with the makefiles you mentioned, and did some 
> minor (allmost trivial) modifications to
> the source (added some casts, includes) and the make files (the whole 
> Hybrid directory was missing) to make it comile with mingw-3.4.2. 
> However, I had problems with linking against the
> dlls afterwards and gave up ...
>
> Matthias

By the way, I haven't tried to compile it with mingw-3.3.x ... I guess 
this may work !
Matthias