Making Development Environment without compiling source distribution

The tedious compiling from VTK source is gone by the help of ParaView 3.8.0 developer distribution. By simply installing ParaView 3.8.0 developer distribution, we can develop C++ program with VTK, run VTK python script in external python interpreter, and extending ParaView.

This document is based on Windows 32bit OS, and ParaView 3.8.0 developer distribution(ParaView-Development-3.8.0-Win32-x86.exe). The compiler should be Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (MSVC 2008), which is used compiling the distribution.

Three prerequisites are DirectX SDK, Qt, and Python distributions. The tested versions are

- MS DirectX SDK (June 2010)

- Qt 4.6.3 (qt-win-opensource-4.6.3-vs2008.exe from [1])

- Python 2.6.5 (python-2.6.5.msi from [2])

The setup procedure are as followings:

STEP 1. Download ParaView 3.8.0 developer distribution, source distribution, data and help files

- ParaView-Development-3.8.0-Win32-x86.exe, ParaView-3.8.0.zip, ParaViewData-3.8.0.zip, ParaView3-html.tar.gz

 from [3]

- vtkdata-5.6.0.zip, vtkDocHtml-5.6.0.tar.gz form [4]