[vtkusers] Compiling VTK on LINUX

[Dominik Szczerba]

What linux distribution are you using. It's likely cmake is provided and you 
dont need to install it yourself.
--ds

On Friday 06 April 2007 12:20, Kalpana Kanthasamy wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I managed to compile VTK on windows using tcl and java. I am trying it on
> Linux, and I am a beginner in linux so shifting from windows to linux is
> really very challenging for me rite now, but I have to submit the project
> running on linux. Anyway coming back to my question, how do I install Cmake
> on linux, I went through several articles on the net, but I keep getting
> errors. This is what I have done so far,
>
> a) I unzipped the VTK file into directory named VTK, the files are there
> b) I unzipped the Cmake file into directory named cmakelinux, the folders
> that exist are "bin", 'doc", "man" and "share"
> c) I found this article to install
>
> There are several possible approaches for building CMake from a source
> tree:
>
> a) If there is no existing CMake installation, a bootstrap script is
> provided:
>
>     ./bootstrap
>     make
>     make install
>
> (Note: the make install step is optional, cmake will run from the build
> directory.)
>
> b) An existing CMake installation can be used to build a new version:
>
>     cmake .
>     make
>     make install
>
> (Note: the make install step is optional, cmake will run from the build
> directory.)
>
>
> I used the (a) version but  I keep getting  "-bash: ./bootstrap: No such
> file or directory",
> and when I used the (b) version "-bash: cmake: command not found" - I have
> tried running it from cmakelinux/bin and cmakelinux, and some errors said
> that the makefile file cant be found, where can I get this.
>
> I have set the path using this command, "export
> PATH=/path/to/cmakelinux/bin:$PATH".
> Could someone assist me, I really need help

-- 
Dominik Szczerba, PhD
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi