[vtkusers] Problems compiling VTK on Windows

Randall Hand randall.hand at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 17:13:37 EDT 2006


I use the minGW that comes with CodeBlocks IDE (
http://www.codeblocks.org/) Which comes with OpenGL, yes.

Oddly enough, I don't have TCL Wrapping enabled (Although ActiveState TCL is
on my machine).  That's what had me so perplexed as to why it was looking
for it.

On 7/5/06, Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
> it sounded like a problem in tcl. by the way, what do you use for
> opengl? there is no standard in mingw, or is it?
>
> --ds
>
> Randall Hand wrote:
> > I'm using MinGW/MSys and CMake 2.4.2.
> >
> > I did finally get a semi-successful compile by Disabling the VTK_USE_TK
> > option.  The results were not quite Python-compatible, I had to manually
> > rename/copy alot of the resulting libvtk*PythonD.dll files to their vtk*
> > Python.dll equivalents, and now it seems to work.
> >
> >
> > Now if I can get the same to happen on our SGI... stupid "static int
> > select"
> > ....
> >
> > On 7/5/06, Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> what are you compiling with?
> >> --ds
> >>
> >> Randall Hand wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm attempting to compile VTK on Windows with Python Bindings and
> >> having
> >> an
> >> > odd error message:
> >> >    Error in cmake code at
> >> > <snip>/Wrapping/Tcl/vtkDetermineTkResources.cmake:4:Unknown CMake
> >> command
> >> > "VTK_GET_TCL_TK_VERSION".
> >> >
> >> > I can compile VTK just fine with all the wrappings disabled, but
> >> turning
> >> on
> >> > the Python wrapping seems to cause this error, making compilation
> >> > impossible.  Any ideas?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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Randall Hand
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ERDC MSRC-ITL
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