[vtkusers] vtk 5.4 installation on win32 question (where are the development headers / libraries)

[Dave Partyka]

Hi Eric,

I believe we stopped shipping prebuilt libraries of VTK with the 5.0 release
for reasons unknown to me as it was before my time. I don't know if there is
an official announcement to that effect, but I do know that all releases of
vtk 5.0x only include vtk.exe for running tcl scripts. If you need the
libraries/headers you have to build them yourself.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM, eman2 <eman2 at agavesys.com> wrote:

> I have been trying to figure this out (and have tried to find it in this
> mailing list), so please excuse this obvious question ...
>
> Our software is written in c++ Visual Studio 2008 (win32 not managed). I
> use vtk 4.2 (which was the current version when I developed the vtk
> code). When i install version 4.2 I get the headers and libraries
> installed into the following directories:
>
> C:\Program Files\vtk42\include\vtk
> C:\Program Files\vtk42\lib\vtk
>
>
> I am rewriting much of the code and was hoping to migrate to latest vtk
> version 5.4
>
> I grab the win 32 installer from:
> http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.4/vtk-5.4.2-win32.exe
>
> I run the installer and select all components ("Development",
> "RuntimeExecutibles", "RuntimeLibraries" )
>
> but when I go look int the target directory: "C:\Program Files\VTK 5.4"
> but there do not seem to be no c header or libs. There seems to be tk
> and tcl files but nothing for c development.
>
> I thought the directory locations may have changed so I searched my
> whole drive for "vtkActor" and the only file found was:
> C:\Program Files\vtk42\include\vtk\vtkActor.h
>
>
> Is there another 5.4 distribution I need to install to get the c headers?
> Do I need to build from source (which seems excessive)?
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
> ----------
> Eric Hegstrom
> Agave Systems, LLC
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