<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">VTK_DIR is the directory where you _BUILT_ VTK. So typically you have an out of source build so if you unzipped your source in C:\Program Files\VTKSource, the you should have made another directory possibly, C:\Program Files\VTKBuild where you actually built VTK. If you have not built VTK yet, stop and do that first.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> If you need help building VTK, just reply back to the mailing list and we can give you some help.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Bitstream Vera Sans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Innovative Management & Technology Services</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 7, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Brandon Lin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Dear VTK experts,<BR><BR>I'm new to VTK and CMake, so please bear with me.<BR><BR>I am trying to build my very first VTK application.<BR>First I ran CMake, I have <BR>C:\Program Files\VTKSource\Examples\Tutorial\Step1\Cxx as my source code dir and <BR>C:\Program Files\VTK Source\Examples\Tutorial\Step1\Cxx\bin as my binary dir.<BR><BR>Configure...<BR>I got a pop-up window giving me the following error:<BR>"CMake Error: VTK not found. Set the VTK_DIR make cache registry to the directory containing VTKConfig.cmake. ... "<BR><BR>I then went OK, then changed my VTK_DIR value to C:/Program Files/VTKSource. <BR>Configure...<BR>I got exactly the same error.<BR><BR>C:/Program Files/VTKSource is where I unzipped my VTK package. In the directory, I have <A href="http://VTKConfig.cmake.in">VTKConfig.cmake.in</A> and vtkGenerateVTKConfig.cmake, but I don't have VTKConfig.cmake.<BR>Is this the problem?<BR><BR>Any help or hint will be greatly appreciated.<BR><BR><BR>Best Regards, <BR>Brandon<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is the private VTK discussion list.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: <A href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers">http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>