[vtkusers] Problems compiling VTK on Windows

[Dominik Szczerba]

thanks for a hint on clodeblocks. did you succeed with the same env to
compile vtk+python on linux? (I did manage with standard gnu, works fine)
--ds

Randall Hand wrote:

> 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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