[vtkusers] compiling on Cygwin/X

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Deirdre;

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Deirdre Wendel wrote:

> In the compilation on Cygwin, the file /bin/cygvtkCommon-5.0.4.dll is looking for the file /Common/CMakefiles/vtkCommon.dir/vtkMutexLock.o. The file does not exist, so the compilation fails. (many .o files did build in that directory, however, but not that one). Any ideas on the source of the problem/remedy would be welcome.

I do not have a reason why vtkMutexLock has not been built. As far as I
know it is built unconditionally. You should be able to build it going
to the VTK-5.0.4/Common directory and:

make vtkMutexLock.o

>
>   Also, I did not know how to set the VTK_DATA_ROOT path in the cmake configuration options (nor do I know what it's for)--there weren't any instructions on that option in the readme file.

If I remember correctly VTK_DATA_ROOT is used to specify the path to a
tree that contains the data for various VTK example programs. This tree
can be downloaded separately from the VTK Web site. VTK_DATA_ROOT can be
set using one of the CMake front ends - e.g. ccmake. You will need to
toggle "Advanced Options" on in the front end.

>
>   Thanks.
>

Cheers

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