[vtkusers] HOW TO BUILD AND INSTALL VTK ON WINXP

[pam]

Raghu, I can add that you must use a unit with NTFS where to compile
VTK because I have some troubles with FAT32, I don't know why.

Pam.

2008/8/22 Kerry Loux <louxkr at gmail.com>:
> Here are my notes on building VTK 5.0.4.  No guarantee that this will work
> for you, but this is what I did:
>
> For instructions on building and installing VTK see:
>     http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Building_VTK
>
> My instructions:
> 1.    Download vtk-5.0.4.zip from www.vtk.org and unzip it.  This contains
> the files required to build VTK,
>     not the files required to use VTK in your own project.
> 2.    Download CMake from www.cmake.org.  Choose the Windows installer and
> install it.  Also create another
>     directory to place the intermediate files during the build.  I recommend
> YourVTKSourceInstallDir\Build.
> 3.    Run CMakeSetup (in /bin) and set the source directory and the where to
> build the binaries directory.
>     This where to build the binaries directory is the directory you just
> created for the intermediate files.
> 4.    Hit configure.  This will ask what compiler to configure for, then
> scan your system before populating the
>     list of project options.
> 5.    Set the project options.  The BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option is for building
> the project for dynamic linking
>     -> If you want to use static linking, set this to OFF.  The
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is the directory where
>     the bin, lib, and include directories (for use with your project) will
> be created.  Others are self
>     explanitory.
> 6.    After changing the project options, you need to hit configure again
> before you can click OK.
> 7.    In the directory you created in which you wanted your binaries stored,
> is a project file called VTK.sln.
>     Open this project.
> 8.    Now you can build the project.  I recommend a batch build where you
> select only the BUILD_ALL project for
>     the configurations you want.  This project configures and builds the
> others.
>     NOTE:  Building with the BUILD_EXAMPLES option (from CMake) gave me a
> whole bunch of crashes during
>     compile (compiling the examples - everything else still builds fine).  I
> don't know why.
> 9.    Do another batch build, this time for the INSTALL projects.  Build the
> same configurations for which you
>     built the BUILD_ALL projects.  This simply copies all of the binaries,
> libraries, and headers into the
>     directory that you specified with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Kerry
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:06 AM, RAGHU PRASAD <raghuprasad.m.s at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Respected sir,
>>
>>
>>                            I am trying to build vtk 5.0.0 with cmake 2.4.6
>> on win xp platform with VC++ 6.0 compiler .Can you suggest a foolproof
>> methodology to build and install VTK on a bare windows machine with the
>> above mentioned specifications .Please provide a step by step procedure to
>> build and install VTK.Please suggest other necessary files or components
>> which are needed to bulid and install vtk.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Raghu
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