> The question is: what is the location of the make program? > > If I remember correctly, on Windows XP, I did not have to install MinGW to > compile VTK. Just Visual Studio Express was required. > > Do I have to install MinGW?
Not unless you want to move your development to MinGW. >Or is it provided by VS? > This should be devenv.com or msbuild.exe (located in your system .NET location). However I believe the express version of VisualStudio does not work with MSBuild so make it the location of devenv.com > > A more general question, what is the recommended way to compile VTK on > Windows? I am not sure about recommended however I build vtk from the command line via a Visual Studio command prompt. I first configure VTK to turn off shared libraries because I want to avoid having to copy dlls around. cmake --build PathToBuildFolderForVTK --config Debug cmake --build PathToBuildFolderForVTK --config Release cmake --build PathToBuildFolderForVTK --config RelWithDebInfo After that I do not install VTK. Since the INSTALL will only install a single configuration. I instead point my own projects that use cmake to use the vtk build folder as VTK_DIR and CMake is happy to set it up so that my debug configurations will use debug vtk libs and my release applications will use release vtk libs. John -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
