[vtkusers] building VTK with MinGW ?

[Vincent Nicolas]

Hi, 

The message said that the command line is too long, it's a problem of the Windows command prompt console. 
If you install MSys (http://www.mingw.org/) you'll have a full unix terminal which should works fine.

Vincent NICOLAS
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Communications and Remote Sensing Lab.
Universite catholique de Louvain
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:25:46 +0100
"Runar Lyngset" <runarylv at stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

> Has anyone successfully built the VTK library using MinGW? If so, I would be
> very interested in your configuration detatils.
> 
> I have attempted to build both VTK 5.0 and 4.4 using CMake 2.3 (CVS-version)
> with MinGW using GNU Make v. 3.80 
> 
> VTK 4.4 comes up with multiple CMake errors and VTK 5.0 makefile compiles,
> but fails in linking the binaries.
> 
>  
> 
> If anyone sees what the problem might be, please respond.
> 
>  
> 
> Errors:
> 
>  
> 
> "Linking CXX static library ../bin/libvtkFiltering.a"
> 
> The input line is too long.
> 
> mingw32-make[2]: *** [bin/libvtkFiltering.a] Error 255
> 
> mingw32-make[1]: *** [Filtering/CMakeFiles/vtkFiltering.dir/all] Error 2
> 
> mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Runar Lyngset
>