[vtkusers] Compiling VTK on LINUX

[Kalpana Kanthasamy]

Thanks Obada and Dominik for your help, I have managed to install Cmake I
think, now I have problem running it


Ok, here is what I did


a) I downloaded the unix version of Cmake ( its not wrong rite, it has the
configure file in it ), the file name is
cmake-2.4.6.tar.gz<http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.6.tar.gz>
,
I untarred it into a Cmake directory, and ran the following command

cd CMake
./configure
make
make install

[the make install step is optional, cmake can run directly from the build
directory if you want.]
- I did not run the last line cause I dun have the root priveleges. ok, now
that that's done, I have to run the cmake, I referred to this website
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/RunningCMake.html .
But when I type ccmake

kalpanak at sauron ~ $ ccmake
-bash: ccmake: command not found

kalpanak at sauron ~ $ ccmake Cmake
-bash: ccmake: command not found



The VTK is in a different directory and Cmake is in a different directory, I
do not wanna install it as in place built thing, but what do you suggest..
thanks, sorry if my questions are really dumb.




On 4/6/07, Obada Mahdi <omahdi at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Kalpana!
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Kalpana Kanthasamy wrote:
> > 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"
>
> This sounds like that "Cmake file" you got your hands on contains a
> binary distribution of CMake, whereas that article
>
> > c) I found this article to install
> [...]
>
> describing how to install CMake using steps involving an optional
> bootstrap process and "make"/"make install" are meant for building CMake
> from source code.  If that is what you want to do, you need to grab the
> archive tagged "Unix Linefeed Source" from
>
> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
>
> and follow the instructions in the article.  However, unless there turns
> out to be a problem with the binary distribution, it should be worth
> trying to use the CMake executable that you already unpacked in
> "cmakelinux/bin":
>
> > 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.
>
> What exact error message did you get trying to run "cmake" from
> "cmakelinux/bin"?  For installing VTK, just unpacking the binary tarball
> should be enough, CMake should just work "out of the box".  If you like,
> you can then extend the "PATH" settings like you described
>
> > I have set the path using this command, "export
> > PATH=/path/to/cmakelinux/bin:$PATH".
>
> and then enter your VTK build directory and start building VTK.  For
> example, having unpacked the sources into "/tmp/VTK", just create and
> enter an empty build directory "/tmp/VTK-build" and run "ccmake ../VTK"
> from there.
>
> If there are any more problems or questions, don't hesitate to ask :-)
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Obada
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