<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'>I was able to compile VTK 6.0.0 successfully using Visual Studio 8 2005 Win64 and the default settings in CMake. Next I installed openMPI and in CMake I enabled VTK_Group_MPI &nbsp;in the group VTK. After that CMake reported:<div> </div><div><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" >Could NOT find MPI_C (missing: MPI_C_LIBRARIES)</p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" >Could NOT find MPI_CXX (missing: MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES)</p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p></div><div><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">CMake Error at vtkBin/lib/cmake/vtk-6.0/Modules/vtkParallelMPI.cmake:4 (set):</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Syntax error in cmake code at</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" > </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; C:/Users/LeovR/VTK6.0.0/vtkBin/lib/cmake/vtk-6.0/Modules/vtkParallelMPI.cmake:4</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" > </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; when parsing string</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" > </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;C:\Program;Files\OpenMPI_v1.6.2-x64/include""</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" > </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; Invalid escape sequence \P</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">Call Stack (most recent call first):</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; CMake/vtkModuleAPI.cmake:36 (include)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; CMake/vtkModuleAPI.cmake:9 (vtk_module_load)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; CMake/vtkModuleAPI.cmake:112 (_vtk_module_config_recurse)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; CMake/vtkModuleMacros.cmake:102 (vtk_module_config)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; CMake/vtkModuleMacros.cmake:425 (vtk_module_impl)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;" ><span style=" color:#ff0000;">&nbsp; Filters/ParallelGeometry/CMakeLists.txt:13 (vtk_module_library)</span></p><p style="margin:0px; padding:0px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </p><div> </div><div> </div>Line 4 of the file vtkParallelMPI.cmake states:</div><div> </div><div>set(vtkParallelMPI_INCLUDE_DIRS "C:/Users/LeovR/VTK6.0.0/vtkBin/Parallel/MPI;C:/Users/LeovR/VTK6.0.0/Parallel/MPI;C:/Users/LeovR/VTK6.0.0/vtkBin/Parallel/MPI;C:/Users/LeovR/VTK6.0.0/Parallel/MPI;"C:\Program;Files\OpenMPI_v1.6.2-x64/include"")</div><div> </div><div>Clearly, the MPI files are included with the wrong slashes. I tried to correct the lines manually, but CMake replaces the files every time I press Configure. Is there some other way to correct this problem?#</div><div> </div><div>regards, Leo.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /><span id="editor_signature"><span style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:12px">L&nbsp;van&nbsp;Ruijven<br />Functional&nbsp;Anatomy&nbsp;(ACTA)<br />Gustav&nbsp;Mahlerlaan&nbsp;3004<br />1081&nbsp;LA&nbsp;Amsterdam<br />Netherlands<br />Ph.&nbsp;+31(0)20-5980852&nbsp;(out&nbsp;of&nbsp;office&nbsp;on&nbsp;friday)</span></span></div></span></span>