[vtkusers] How to compile tutorial example?

[James Frye]

David,

Well, it does and it doesn't :-)

After some fumbling, I got it to generate a Makefile that will compile the
example.  The problems are that it's not a standard makefile at all: it
calls CMake internally through several levels of scripts and/or recursive
make calls, creates a bunch of additional directories & files, uses wrong
commands & extensions...

I suppose I could eventually trace through all of this, and extract the
relevant parts to make a useable makefile (My first quick shot did get me
down to a mere 10K or so error lines :-)), but I need to ask whether it's
going to be worth doing, whether that makefile would work as a template
for other programs. Please understand that we're not starting a project
from scratch: we have existing code & makefiles which work.  We really
aren't interested in re-writing all this working code just to integrate
one toolkit, no matter how nice it is.

So I guess the question now is whether it is feasible to use VTK without
CMake, and if so, where to start.

Thanks,
James


On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, David Cole wrote:

> If you successfully compiled and installed VTK 5.0, you must have used 
> CMake to do so...
> 
> Use CMake to generate a makefile for you... If you point CMake at 
> Examples/Tutorial/Step1/Cxx as the source directory you should be able 
> to get a makefile that will build step 1 linking to the VTK you just built.
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> James Frye wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've just downloaded and installed VTK 5.0.  I compiled and installed it
> >in /opt/vtk.  Now I'm trying to get the first example in
> >Examples/Tutorial/Step1 to run.  
> >
> >Since there is no Makefile, I made a simple one, which I've included at
> >the end.  The problem is that this gives me about 54K lines of "undefined
> >reference to vtkSomething..." messages.  Obviously. something fundamental
> >is wrong, but what?  How do I get a Makefile that I can use to compile a
> >simple example?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >James
> >
> >PS: I did read the install instructions, all the FAQs, and tried to search
> >the mailing list archives (using "how to compile example" as a search
> >string).
> >
> >
> >The Makefile:
> >
> >NAME = Cone
> >
> >CC   = /usr/bin/gcc
> >CPP  = /usr/bin/gcc
> >
> >CFLAGS += -g -Wunused -Wno-deprecated -I/opt/vtk/include/vtk-5.0
> >LIBS = -L/opt/vtk/lib \
> >       -lvtkCommon -lvtkDICOMParser -lvtkFiltering -lvtkGenericFiltering \
> >       -lvtkGraphics -lvtkHybrid -lvtkIO -lvtkImaging -lvtkMPEG2Encode \
> >       -lvtkNetCDF -lvtkRendering -lvtkVolumeRendering -lvtkWidgets    \
> >       -lvtkexoIIc -lvtkexpat -lvtkfreetype -lvtkftgl -lvtkjpeg -lvtkpng \
> >       -lvtksys -lvtktiff -lvtkzlib
> >
> >
> >$Cone: Cone.o
> >	$(CC) -o $@ $^ $(LIBS)
> >
> >
> >.cpp.o:
> >	  $(CPP) $(CFLAGS) -c $< 
> >
> >
> >
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