[vtkusers] Please help a frustrated user.

[Mike Jackson]

the simple, but not really the best way, to use cmake is to "cd" into  
the top level of one of the sample app directories. When in there  
type "cmake ." This will run cmake on the current directory and  
configure everything for you. If you want something a bit more  
interactive type "ccmake ." instead. Fill in any missing paths. Type  
"c" to configure (while running ccmake) and then "g" to generate  
(again while running ccmake) and if everything works ccmake should  
exit. Now just type "make" and the app should compile.

Now with that said, cmake REALLY would like you to do an "out of  
source" build instead. This insulates the source tree from the build  
tree and turns out to be _really_ handy. So to do this try the  
following:

  Change Directory into the parent directory of one of the Example  
Programs:

[mjackson at Thor:~]$ cd /VTK-5.0.2/Examples/Tutorial/Step1/
[mjackson at Thor:~]$ mkdir Cxx-Build
[mjackson at Thor:~]$ cd Cxx-Build
[mjackson at Thor:~]$ ccmake ../Cxx
    Type "c" to configure and then "g" to generate make files
[mjackson at Thor:~]$ make

That should be all there is to it. If everything is "installed"  
correctly, cmake and vtk, then this should just work. Let us know if  
it does not.

Cheers

-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Feb 28, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Tim Reynolds wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to develop some applications in c++ in Linux using VTK.  
> However, I can not get cmake/ccmake to compile anything and I can  
> not just find a simple makefile or example of the command I would  
> use with g++ to link my source to the vtk libraries.
>
> I am using VTK 5 in Ubuntu linux. I have tried all day to get  
> anything to work in Windows but have only had failure.
> VTK is install in
> /usr/lib/vtk-5.0
>
> When I try to use ccmake after running cmake -i on the sample  
> programs it throws a number of different errors including failure  
> to load CMakeCache.txt from /usr/lib/vtk-5.0/CMakeCache.txt despite  
> my telling it to load the one in the example directory, to not  
> having VTK_USE_RENDERING set.
>
> I really dislike cmake, so if I could get some help that would be  
> great. Really, I just need a makefile or something. Thank you.
>
>
> -- 
> Tim Reynolds
> -- Self Proclaimed King Of Nerds
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