[vtkusers] The basics of setting up VTK in Windows

[John Drescher]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:43 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Steve Chall <stevec at renci.org> wrote:
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> I’ve had reasonable success setting up, maintaining and using VTK with
>> GCC/g++ in a Linux environment for a couple of years now.  However, I have a
>> new project coming up that stipulates that I use VTK in C++ within Microsoft
>> Visual Studio 2008, and I’m not sure where to look for guidelines for
>> practical setup:  where to put the include files and libraries, the best way
>> to let Visual Studio know where they are.  I downloaded and ran the Windows
>> 5.4.0 installer, which seems to have only installed a tiny sample program
>> and none of the other stuff one needs to build VTK apps.  I’ve also
>> downloaded and decompressed the Source, Data, and Documentation files.  For
>> some reason the docs are not externally accessible to me, and at this point
>> rudimentary questions are proliferating wildly.  I’m sure there are
>> thousands of successful setups just like I want to create, and that I’m
>> missing something really basic and probably obvious.  Can someone point me
>> to a Getting Started and Setup guide for VTK with VC++?  Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> My advice, is to use CMake to generate your Visual Studio project
> files

Here I mean for both the application you are writing and VTK itself.

John