[vtkusers] VTK compilation with QT

[Andrew Maclean]

Never modify the VTK CMake files.These files have been carefully designed
to build VTK from scratch by inspecting the system and then creating the
necessary generators for your specific platform that are used to build VTK.

If you modify these files and subsequently download a newer version of VTK
then your modifications are lost. Additionally you may inadvertently modify
something you shouldn't, making it very difficult to get assistance should
the build fail.

CMake provides a mechanism to modify the the cmake cache entries either
through the GUI (ccmake or cmake-gui) or by setting parameters via -D on
the command line to create/change a cmake cache entry.
Run: "cmake --help" for more information.

If you are using ccmake, press "t" to toggle advanced mode and scroll down
to find VTK_QT_VERSION.
Alternatively run ccmake with -DVTK_QT_VERSION:STRING="5"

Andrew


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Sam Raby <rabysam28 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Andrew for the directions.
> Since I am not using GUI version of cmake, what I did was to go to the
> source directory of VTK and then I added two following lines to the
> CMakeLists.txt file:
>
> set(VTK_QT_VERSION "5" CACHE STRING "Expected Qt version")
> mark_as_advanced(VTK_QT_VERSION)
>
> and then when I ran ccmake, I was able to configure VTK successfully, as
> the version of Qt is now set to 5.
>
> FYI, the two above lines are from the link below:
>
> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/CMake/vtkQt.cmake
>
>
> -S
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Set Grouped and Advanced in the Cmake GUI and look ook in the VTK section
>> of the cmake-gui and you will see it about half-way down:
>>
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Sam Raby <rabysam28 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Andrew. Would you let me know how I can set VTK_QT_VERSION to 5?
>>> I do not see this option in the advanced mode.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Maclean <
>>> andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to set  VTK_QT_VERSION to 5 as VTK uses QT4 by default.
>>>>
>>>>  Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Sam Raby <rabysam28 at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "vtkusers at vtk.org" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>>>>> Cc:
>>>>> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:28:32 -0500
>>>>> Subject: [vtkusers] Fwd: VTK compilation with QT
>>>>> I appreciate any idea how I can fix this compilation error?
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> -S
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Sam Raby <rabysam28 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:06 AM
>>>>> Subject: VTK compilation with QT
>>>>> To: "vtkusers at vtk.org" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am compiling VTK with QT enabled. While I think Qt is properly
>>>>> installed, I am getting the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> */home/mycomputer/myLibs/QT/Qt5.2.0/5.2.0/gcc_64/bin/qmake reported*
>>>>> *   QT_INSTALL_LIBS as
>>>>> "/home/mycomputer/myLibs/QT/Qt5.2.0/5.2.0/gcc_64/lib"*
>>>>> *   but QtCore could not be found there.  Qt is NOT installed
>>>>> correctly for the*
>>>>> *   target build environment. *
>>>>>
>>>>> Would you advise how I can get this fixed?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> -S
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ___________________________________________
>>>> Andrew J. P. Maclean
>>>>
>>>> ___________________________________________
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ___________________________________________
>> Andrew J. P. Maclean
>>
>> ___________________________________________
>>
>
>


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