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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been able to compile VTK on Windows using the free VS
2005 Express. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>CMake Settings:<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>My source code is in:
<font
color=red><span style='color:red'>C:\VTK<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>My binaries were built in:
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>C:\Compiled\VTK</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>C:\Compiled\VTK</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>VTK_DATA_ROOT:
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>C:\VTKData</span></font> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:
<font
color=red><span style='color:red'>OFF</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>BUILD_EXAMPLES:
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>ON</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>BUILD_TESTING:
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>ON</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Build log was saved at
"file://c:\Compiled\VTK\ALL_BUILD.dir\Release\BuildLog.htm"<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>ALL_BUILD - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue;font-weight:bold'>==========
Build: 25 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I build <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>RUN_TESTS</span></b>
after the build is completed all test finish successfully <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 36<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Build log was saved at
"file://c:\Compiled\VTK\RUN_TESTS.dir\Release\BuildLog.htm"<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>RUN_TESTS - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue;font-weight:bold'>==========
Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I build the<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> INSTALL</span></b>
project I get this output at the end of the build<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>CMake Error: Error in cmake code at<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>c:/Compiled/VTK/cmake_install.cmake:52:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>FILE cannot find file:
C:/Compiled/VTK/CMake/cmVTK_WRAP_TCL2.dll to install.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Build log was saved at
"file://c:\Compiled\VTK\INSTALL.dir\Release\BuildLog.htm"<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>INSTALL - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue;font-weight:bold'>==========
Build: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 24 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But with all of this when I try to compile the simple
C:\VTK\Examples\GUI\Win32\SimpleCxx\Win32Cone.cxx example in VS 2005 Express I
get errors like this one: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Win32Cone.cxx<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>c:\vtk\examples\gui\win32\simplecxx\win32cone.cxx(23)
: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'vtkConeSource.h': No such file
or directory<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents
and Settings\Mike\My Documents\Visual Studio
2005\Projects\test5\test5\Debug\BuildLog.htm"<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>test5 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=blue face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue;font-weight:bold'>==========
Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Everything appears to work fine on Linux with the CMake
generated makefile and the examples work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What am I doing wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Mike</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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