[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
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