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QuickVtk

Build Instructions for windows

1. Download and install CMake

Add cmake executables path(C:\Program Files\CMake\bin) to PATH environment variable is recommended.

2. Download and install Qt

3. Download and instatll Visual Studio

4. Build VTK

  • Open a developer command prompt(I will call this terminal from now on)

  • Open cmake-gui

    Type cmake-gui in your terminal, a cmake graphical user interface will open.Make sure open cmake-gui from this termimal to get the necessary build tools.

    cmake-gui

    Warning: If you didn't add the path of cmake-gui to PATH, you should type the full path of cmake-gui.exe

  • Set the source and binary path in cmake-gui.

  • Press Configure and select a project generator.Visual Studio and NMake Makefiles both are OK.I use NMake Makefiles here.

  • You may want to use the VTK_GIT_TAG attribute to specify a commit hash of the latest release version which will be used to download and build a specific VTK-version from the remote repository, the default is the latest versin for now: 8.2.0.

  • Press Configure and then Generate

  • Open the terminal and navigate to /dependencies/bin in the project directory. From there, use the nmake command to invoke the build process. VTK will first be cloned so make sure you are connected to the internet

  • Wait the build precess to complete, it may take a long time.

    cd dependencies/bin
nmake

Warning: Use msbuild or Visual Studio to build if you selected the Visual Studio as the generator.

4. Build QuickVtk

  • Launch cmake-gui and set the paths accordingly:

  • Press Configure and select a project generator

  • In most cases, CMake will fail to find Qt. Confirm the error dialog and enter Qt in the search field. Set the path to Qt5Config.cmake which might vary depending on your Qt-installation.

  • Press Configure again

  • Another error will probably pop up. This time VTK was not found. Type VTK in the search field and set the path to dependencies/bin/VTK/bin from the project root directory

  • Press Configure and then Generate

4.1 Build

Build QuickVtk in the terminal

cd bin
nmake

  1. enable Module_vtkRenderingExternal when build vtk.
  2. Set VTK_DIR to the build/install path of vtk when build QuickVtk