[vtkusers] Can VTK be used with Codegear XE4 compilers???

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:40:13 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:16:40 +0200, Bo Berglund
><bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>But I have no idea what/where/how this shall be working, just trying
>>to follow a cook-book document. :-(
>
>Now I have started over and this time I downloaded the latest release
>sources for VTK (5.10.1).
>I extracted these to a separate location on the disk:
>C:\Engieering\VTK5.10.1
>Then I changed the environment variable VTKSRC to point to this
>location. I left the env var VTKBIN to point to the binary output
>folder, which I cleared of earlier content.
>
>So I now had:
>- sources in dir VTK5.10.1
>- an empty output directory C:\Engineering\VTK\BIN
>- Env var VTKSRC set to C:\Engieering\VTK5.10.1
>- Env var VTKBIN set to C:\Engineering\VTK\BIN
>- Using CMake latest version
>
>When I started CMake it asked me to Browse source, so I set it to
>C:\Engieering\VTK5.10.1 (strange that it did not pick it up from the
>env var)
>The output dir was set correctly (from the env var???)
>
>After this I hit the Configure button and could select the "Borland
>Makefiles" generator.
>When I hit finish I had the same fatal error again in the linking
>step:
>
>Fatal: Expected an option: LC:\Programs\Embarcadero\RAD
>Studio\11.0\lib
>
>Now the strange thing is that in the top pane there are two items,
>both marked in red:
>CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE = Debug  (I don't know why, I want it to be Release)
>CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = C:\Program Files(x86)/VTK  (why this?????)
>
>The last item I have no clue what it is used for and how CMake came to
>set it like that because that path does not even exist on my computer
>and I don't know what it would be used for either. You are not allowed
>to put working files or the like into this directory tree by Microsoft
>standards.....
>What should it be set to????
>
>In any case it seems like I am missing some crucial item here and this
>time I have used the latest versions of both the VTK sources and
>CMake.
>
>What else could I do?
>The suggestion to try and compile something else does not mean much to
>me since I am not a C++ programmer, I just want the VTK engine for my
>RAD Studio XE4 program...

Further to this:
In the VTK Readme.html that comes with the source there is a
compilation on Windows comment that I do not understand:

 In the case of a Visual Studio NMake, Borland C++, or MinGW build the
CMakeSetup dialog should be executed from a command prompt with the
appropriate environment set. 

What exactly is a "command prompt with the appropriate environment
set"???

Maybe the whole problem is this, but since it is not explained one
cannot even know how this is supposed to be set up...


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden