<div dir="ltr">Never modify the VTK CMake files.These files have been carefully designed to build VTK from scratch by inspecting the system and then creating the necessary generators for your specific platform that are used to build VTK. <div>
<br></div><div>If you modify these files and subsequently download a newer version of VTK then your modifications are lost. Additionally you may inadvertently modify something you shouldn't, making it very difficult to get assistance should the build fail. <div>
<br></div><div>CMake provides a mechanism to modify the the cmake cache entries either through the GUI (ccmake or cmake-gui) or by setting parameters via -D on the command line to create/change a cmake cache entry.</div><div>
Run: "cmake --help" for more information.<div> <div><div>If you are using ccmake, press "t" to toggle advanced mode and scroll down to find VTK_QT_VERSION.</div><div>Alternatively run ccmake with -DVTK_QT_VERSION:STRING="5"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andrew</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Sam Raby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabysam28@gmail.com" target="_blank">rabysam28@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you Andrew for the directions. <div>Since I am not using GUI version of cmake, what I did was to go to the source directory of VTK and then I added two following lines to the CMakeLists.txt file:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>set(VTK_QT_VERSION "5" CACHE STRING "Expected Qt version")</div><div>mark_as_advanced(VTK_QT_VERSION)</div></div><div><br></div><div>and then when I ran ccmake, I was able to configure VTK successfully, as the version of Qt is now set to 5.</div>
<div><br></div><div>FYI, the two above lines are from the link below:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/CMake/vtkQt.cmake" target="_blank">https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/CMake/vtkQt.cmake</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Maclean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.amaclean@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.amaclean@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Set Grouped and Advanced in the Cmake GUI and look ook in the VTK section of the cmake-gui and you will see it about half-way down:</div>
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</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Sam Raby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabysam28@gmail.com" target="_blank">rabysam28@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks Andrew. Would you let me know how I can set VTK_QT_VERSION to 5? I do not see this option in the advanced mode. <br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Andrew Maclean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.amaclean@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.amaclean@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">You need to set VTK_QT_VERSION to 5 as VTK uses QT4 by default.<br><div class="gmail_extra">
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Andrew</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
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Cc: <br>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:28:32 -0500<br>Subject: [vtkusers] Fwd: VTK compilation with QT<br><div dir="ltr">I appreciate any idea how I can fix this compilation error?<div>thanks</div><div>-S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Date: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:06 AM<br>Subject: VTK compilation with QT<br>To: "<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>><br>
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Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am compiling VTK with QT enabled. While I think Qt is properly installed, I am getting the following error:</div><div><br></div><div><b>/home/mycomputer/myLibs/QT/Qt5.2.0/5.2.0/gcc_64/bin/qmake reported</b></div>
<div><b> QT_INSTALL_LIBS as "/home/mycomputer/myLibs/QT/Qt5.2.0/5.2.0/gcc_64/lib"</b></div><div><b> but QtCore could not be found there. Qt is NOT installed correctly for the</b></div><div><b> target build environment. </b></div>
<div><br><div>Would you advise how I can get this fixed?</div></div><div><br></div><div>thanks<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>-S</div></font></span></div>
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