KWWidgets/Projects/3DWidgets/Part2/Widgets/VTKW

Installing VTK on a Windows System

Downloads Required

• CMake http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
• MinGW http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
• WinCVS http://www.wincvs.org/download.html

Install CMake

Follow the wizard instructions of the downloaded installation file.

Install MinGW

Follow the wizard instructions of the downloaded installation file.

Install WinCVS

Follow the wizard instructions of the downloaded installation file.

Download VTK

Launch the installed WinCVS. To begin with, set the installation directory,

Admin -> Preferences

Type in the desired installation directory and click “OK”.

Next, we need to connect to the CVS repository.

Admin->Command Line

Type in “cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK” login and click “OK”, respond to the demand for a password with “vtk”. Finally, we need to download the CVS version of vtk.

Admin->Command Line Type in “cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK checkout VTK” login and click “OK”.

Compiling

In a command window, type

cmakesetup .

cmake .

Lastly, you need to call the C++ compiler, as I used MinGW, the actual executable to call is mingw32-make.exe so I made a batch file to make it simpler 8)

make