[Insight-users] Fwd: A challenge to all Windows users

[URI]

Aha! I finally got it!  The problem was that I had "configured" ITK but I
hadn't "built" it.  So I finally got the "Hello world" message.

Thanks to everyone for all your help.




Luis-

Thanks for the response.  Can you explicitly outline the exact steps I need
to follow (in Windows of course) to do the configuring and compiling?  I
tried following the steps from the Getting Started guide, but while that
guide provides the general procedure I think I'm again missing some subtle
element that is preventing me from successfully reaching the goal.



Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
> Hi URI,
> 
> Congratulations in your success building ITK with MinGW,
> 
> and Thanks a lot to all the ITK users who lent a hand here...
> that was a great example of Open Source community !.
> 
> --
> 
> Now that you are building examples, please not that they
> are intended to be run from the command line prompt.
> 
> None of the examples provide a GUI, nor flashy windows
> and visualizations.
> 
> 
> You will configure them with CMake, compile them by
> calling "make", and then you will find executables that
> you will invoke directly from the command line.
> 
> For the case of the HelloWorld example, you simply
> will use the command:
> 
>                         ./HelloWorld.exe
> 
> and you should get as response a message printed
> in your MinGW shell:
> 
>                    "ITK Hello World !"
> 
> 
> 
>       Regards,
> 
> 
>               Luis
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:39 AM, URI <zallen at wheelinghospital.com> wrote:
>>
>> This was exactly the problem, now it's working.  I was also able to
>> configure
>> ITK with Visual Studio Express with no problems.
>>
>> Now I'm faced with a new challenge - how do I make it work from here?  I
>> have a folder called "Examples" that is full of C++, PY, and TCL files,
>> but
>> I'm not sure what to do with any of them.
>>
>> I tried following the Linux instructions
>> (http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/GettingStarted-I.pdf) starting
>> with
>> Step 6, but I got stuck on Step 7 because after running CMake on my new
>> HelloWorld directory I do not have a HelloWorld.dsw file.
>>
>> I also tried following the instructions in the "ITK Software Guide"
>> (http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf) starting at the top of page 17,
>> which reads:
>>
>> "Under Windows you can run CMakeSetup and provide your newly created
>> directory as
>> being both the source directory and the binary directory for your new
>> project (i.e., an in-source
>> build). Then CMake will require you to provide the path to the binary
>> directory where ITK was
>> built."
>>
>> I created a HelloWorld directory and copied the two files from the
>> Examples/Installation folder, then I set CMake to point to my newly
>> created
>> directory for both the source and bin directory, but it never asked me
>> for
>> the path to the binary directory where ITK was built.  It still
>> configured
>> though, and now I have several files in my HelloWorld directory, but I
>> don't
>> know what to do with them.  I tried opening the VC++ Project files in VS
>> Express and compiling them, but I keep getting errors.
>>
>> Can someone again provide specific step-by-step instructions on what to
>> do
>> after building ITK and hitting the "Generate" button in CMake?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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