[vtkusers] VTK and MinGW on Windows 7

Jim Peterson jimcp at cox.net
Thu Sep 23 18:12:11 EDT 2010


David Gobbi wrote:
> This is a problem that needs to be fixed.  There is no need for the
> "lib" prefix on these modules, even in pure unix environments, much
> less mingw and other unix-like environments.  They are only there
> because old versions of CMake used to be unable to produce modules on
> unix without adding "lib".  But that was fixed in CMake around 6 years
> ago, so VTK should be updated.  Unless someone strongly objects, I
> will go ahead and modify the VTK cmake files so that these prefixes
> are removed, both for Java and for Python.
>
>   David
>
>   

David,
That sounds excellent. I will certainly test the change for MingW build 
of Java wrappers  if you want.
Jim



More information about the vtkusers mailing list