<div dir="ltr">To run an example, find it's executable in the vtkbin/Release/bin folder (or */Debug/bin) and run it.<br><br>To build an example project separately, run CMake against it's CMakeLists.txt file and set VTK_DIR to "C:/myprojects/vtkbin" when configuring. Then open up that generated dsw file and build it in Visual Studio.<br>
<br><br>HTH,<br>David<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:28 AM, RAGHU PRASAD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raghuprasad.m.s@gmail.com">raghuprasad.m.s@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div> I have built vtk 5.0.3 with cmake 2.4.7 and VC++ 6.0 on win xp platform with NTFS hadrdrive unit.I followed the procedure given below.</div>
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<div>1.Download vtk 5.0.3 source file and unzip it to a location C:\myprojects\vtksrc.</div>
<div>2 .Download vtk data 5.0.3 and unzip it to a location C:\myprojects\vtkdata.</div>
<div>3.Download vtk 5.0.3 win 32.exe to location C:\myprojects\vtk5.0.3</div>
<div>4.Create a folder to save the binaies in location C:\myprojects\vtkbin.</div>
<div>5.Download and install cmake <a href="http://2.4.7." target="_blank">2.4.7.</a></div>
<div>6.on windows xp set the environment variables right click on my computer,properties---->Advanced----->environment variables--------->system variables----------->new-------->variable name-------->vtk_data_root---------->variable value--------->C:\vtkproject\vtkdata and click ok.</div>
<div>7.run cmake set the source path as C:\myprojects\vtksrc and the where to build the binaries as C:\myprojects\vtkbin as i am using cmake 2.4.7 there is a option of setting the advanced values check the advanced values box.</div>
<div>8.Click on configure and turn on the following flags <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB ON,BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF,BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF,VTk-<font size="4">USE_PARALLEL OFF ,VTK _USE_RENDERING ON nad i configured again and clicked on ok</font></font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9.Open the vtkbin folder double click on vtk.dsw and in vc++ click on ALLL_BUILD and build it toolk about 10 minutes to build and flashed a message stating 0 errors and 0 warnings.</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is THE ABOVE METHOD CORRECT.Please correct me if i am wrong.</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My question is how to run examples to verify whether by build is successful or not.How to include an example project and make it run.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">when I opened an example project directly by clicking on example.cxx file</font> it flashed an erron in vc++ ide stating that cannot compile the file no compile tool associated with the file extension</div>
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<div>please provide me a solution for this.</div>
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