Build VTK from source using MinGW/MSys
Here is the reference document on how to build VTK from source in MinGW/MSys
The minimal project for MinGW/MSys can be found here:
Two files are potentially useful in the build process:
http://code.hkpeterpeter.googlepages.com/CMakeLists.txt
http://code.hkpeterpeter.googlepages.com/jconfig.h
(Note: Although not quite accurate, you can think MinGW is a thin abstraction layer which allows you to port softwares in Unix-like environment to Windows with the minimal changes of code. MSys provides a Unix-like shell environment, just like bash/csh).
3 comments:
Your blog is interesting!
I am new to vtk, and I plan to get working in the summer. All I know is that I want to use C++, and I will need information how to set up a simple application first.
Hi,
If you are a Windows user, you can use VTK in Visual Studio compiler or gcc in MinGW. See the documents listed in the installation section.
Peter
Hey, i'm new to vtk and tried to follow your instructions. it worked well until i started msys. after i typed make into the compiler i got an error:
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lws2_32.lib
i have absolutly not idea what this is suposed to mean, i didn't find anything on google as well :(
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