[vtkusers] getting started4

[Gib Bogle]

Visual Studio (I don't know about Express) uses .vcxproj files.  I'd expect you 
to see ALL_BUILD.vcxproj.

It's very ambitious to build VTK without being familiar with your tool-chain.

On 28/08/2013 2:20 p.m., Greg Hanowski wrote:
>
> VTKers,
>
> Ok, the CMakeSetup dialog appears to have completed the build tree 
> successfully.  Now how to compile it?
>
> The README.html file says "Now that the build system has been generated the 
> corresponding native tools can be used to build VTK. In the case of the Visual 
> Studio IDE simply run it and load the VTK workspace or solution file from the 
> binary tree specified in the CMakeSetup dialog. Select and build the 
> |ALL_BUILD| target."
>
> So I went into Visual Studio Express 2012 and did File>Open Project and 
> navigated to the build tree location, 
> C:/Users/Greg/Documents/VTK/VTK6.0.0.0/Build, but there is no .sln file 
> there.  (What is a VTK workspace?)
>
> Then I also read further down, "If VTK was built using a CMake Makefile 
> generator then this is done by running "make install" from the top of the 
> build tree."
>
> So I navigated to the build tree in a cmd shell and typed make install like 
> this: C:\Users\Greg\Documents\VTK\VTK6.0.0.0\Build>make install
>
> but got the following error:
>
> 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program 
> or batch file.
>
> So I searched my entire c: drive for "make" but no make.xxx showed up.  Even 
> if one did, I don't see any file called install.xxx in the build directory so 
> I doubt it would work anyway.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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Dr. Gib Bogle
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Auckland Bioengineering Institute
University of Auckland
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