[vtkusers] build vtk libs using Visual Studio 2005 (for dummies)

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:01 PM, mschira <mark.schira at gmail.com> wrote:
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> John M. Drescher wrote:
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>> If you are using cmake 2.6.X then its probably not in your path. You
>> can put the cmake-2.6/bin folder in your path or just  change
>> directory to the bin folder in cmake.
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>> Or try just opening cmake-gui from explorer. I would create a shortcut
>> for that and put it on the desktop and get rid of the shortcut to the
>> deprecated cmake. In most cases you will not need to run this from a
>> command prompt. I do not do that often.
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> Hehe, told you guys I had no idea what I am doing here. turns out I need
> Cmake to be installed (*looking very embarrassed now, though nobody did so
> much as hinting Cmake is something one has to install*)
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> So I just did that. Installed 2.4 though not 2.6 (for now) Why?
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> Found a post from Jeremy Drysdale who tell a here tale of himself managing
> to compile the VTK on his Xp64 system. So he's my hero for now, while I am
> trying to follow his path.
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> Are there good reasons to use 2.6 instead?
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I have been using it for almost a year now, on XP SP3, linux, Win2k3
Advanced Server and on XP64. Yes I do use all 4 daily, good thing all
my code is in cvs.. I have little experience with 2.4 so I can not
really help with the difference. However I can tell you that
cmake-gui.exe is much better CMakeSetup.exe at setting variables and
dealing with problems in your CMakeLists.txt files.

John