[vtkusers] Error building VTK 64-bit

[Gib Bogle]

Hi Christian,

The latest MinGW64 builds VTK (and ITK).  I haven't tried rebuilding Qt yet.

Gib

On 26/04/2011 7:38 a.m., Christian Lackas wrote:
> * Gib Bogle<g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz>  [110424 10:17]:
>
> Hi Gib,
>
>> Thanks.  I made those changes, but I'm still getting an internal
>> compiler error.
>
> an ICE is most probably more an issue in your GCC version than in VTK.
>
>> Maybe you are using a more recent compiler version.  Mine is:
>> mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20110207.zip
>
> We are actually using a much older MinGW-w64 version:
>
>      g++.exe (GCC) 4.4.5 20100604 (prerelease) [svn/rev.160271 - mingw-w64/oz]
>
> However, this version has been working very reliably for us in the last
> couple of months (e.g. for Qt, VTK, ITK, ImageMagick, Dcmtk, ... and all
> of our own code).
> We do still have the installer for this version in case you would like
> to give it a try, also.
>
> Christian
>