[vtkusers] compiling VTK on linux

[Oleksandr Dzyubak]

Hi Liam,

Ubuntu is based on and derived from Debian.
Since you are using Ubuntu anyway,  I would recommend you
to install Debian Lenny on your Linux box.
Lenny has Cmake, Make, ITK,  VTK,  wxWidgets, FLTK, QT(3/4),  Perl,  Tcl/Tk
and all what you might need for your development in their repository as
binary pre-built packages thus it works right out of the box.
Since you are Ubuntu (meaning Debian) user
you know how to install needed packages and satisfy all dependencies.

The good thing is that if you do that, it will save you a lot of time 
and efforts
you might spent on first compiling the distribution packages themselves,
latter examples, and finally "dependency hell" when you will start
"putting all together" in your own application.

Hope it helps,

Alex


Liam K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some help in compiling VTK+. I'm hoping to use it with 
> the java wrapping for a medical data visualisation project.
>
> I'm finding just compiling VTK on my linux box (ubuntu) to be much 
> more difficult than i expect.
> So far i have install cmake and set various option and generated the 
> make file.
>
> When I run the make file however i get:
>
> zoizoi at mangoNupheus:/usr/local/VTK$ make
> [  0%] Built target vtkParseJava
> [  0%] Built target vtkWrapJava
> [  0%] Built target vtksys
> [  0%] Building CXX object 
> Common/CMakeFiles/vtkCommon.dir/vtkDataArraySelection.o
> /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: ISO C++ 
> forbids declaration of 'vector' with no type
> /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: invalid use 
> of '::'
> /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: expected 
> ';' before '<' token
>
> ...and then a long long list of errors which it's probably not worth 
> posting. This is VTK 5.0.4
>
> i have no idea what's causing this as my knowledge of C++ is pretty 
> limited. Is there some configure option i need to set to get the 
> compiler to be less stringent or something?
>
> hope someone can help as i need to get working on this project asap.
>
> Liam
>
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