[vtkusers] Cannot install Qt 5.6.2 with VTK 7.0 on Windows 8.1, Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015

[Elvis Stansvik]

2017-05-23 13:02 GMT+02:00 MarWas18 <marcinwas94 at interia.pl>:
> In fact nothing worked. May someone share working configuration for GUI
> development on Windows 8.1 with links for download (VTK version, CMake
> version, Qt and Microsoft Visual Studio versions) and if possible step by
> step installation tutorial, please?

Since my setup is quite similar to yours (though I don't use the IDE
part of MSVC, only the compiler), here it goes:

1. Install Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools
(http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools)

2. Install CMake 3.7.2 from installer
(https://cmake.org/files/v3.7/cmake-3.7.2-win64-x64.msi)

3. Install Ninja 1.7.2 by unpacking .zip
(https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.7.2/ninja-win.zip)

4. Install Qt 5.6.2 from offline installer
(http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.6/5.6.2/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2015_64-5.6.2.exe)

All of these are for Windows 64-bit.

Then, to get a command prompt suitable for building VTK with Qt support:

1. Start a "Qt 5.6 64-bit for Desktop (MSVC 2015)" command prompt (a
shortcut is installed by Qt).

2. Choose the correct compiler by running:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64

Then, assuming

1. Qt was installed to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/Qt.

2. The VTK source is in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\VTK-7.1.1

3. You want to install VTK to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\VTK-7.1.1-inst

4. The ninja.exe executable is in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\ninja.exe

you can configure, build and install VTK with

cd %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\VTK-7.1.1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ^
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\VTK-7.1.1-inst ^
    -DVTK_Group_Qt=ON ^
    -DVTK_QT_VERSION=5 ^
    -DQt5_DIR=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/Qt/Qt5.6.2/5.6/msvc2015_64/lib/cmake/Qt5 ^
    -DVTK_Group_Imaging=ON ^
    -DVTK_Group_Views=ON ^
    -DVTK_Group_MPI=OFF ^
    -DVTK_Group_Tk=OFF ^
    -DVTK_Group_Web=OFF ^
    -DVTK_Group_StandAlone=OFF ^
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF ^
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=OFF ^
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
    -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\ninja.exe ^
    -GNinja ^
    ..
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --build . --target install

Obviously, the flags for enabling/disabling stuff will look different
depending on what you want.

Newer version of CMake should work, it's just that 3.7.2 was the
latest when I did this.

Hope that helps,
Elvis

>
> Thank you,
> Marcin
>
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