[vtkusers] Help: problems building Vtk on msVista

[Paul Arner]

Hi --

I'm a new user, trying to understand the Visualization Toolkit.  

I purchased a copy of the latest edition of the book and downloaded the software from the web.  However, I need to be able to play around with code to better understand your classes, etc .  

I recently purchased a new laptop which runs Microsoft Vista.  I was successfully able to globally build VTK there (using Visual Studio 9 (I have not successfully built a separate project which accesses the shared libraries yet due to problems getting cmake to work in a local environment)).

>From what I have understood,  it is not possible to make links to Java/TCL without building with a cygwin compiler/linker on a windows platform.  Since this is my final goal I decided to download the latest compiler from Cygwin (as well as whatever else I thought I needed)... 

However, when I try to use cmake/make, I am getting an error in .../vtk_5.4.2/Rendering/vtkTesting.cxx that I am not sure how to fix.  I've included a jpg file with the build error from the bash shell window (I can't cut-and paste from it).  It's executing some sort of macro which doesn't seem to have been interpreted correctly.  Am I missing a compile variable (or some other magic) which will fix this?

Thanks

Paul
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