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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I want to install VTK 4.2 in a out of source build way. So
I read the installation guide in </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>'The VTK User's Guide'. Thereafter I did the following
steps:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial>Download latest Version of VTK Source</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial>extract the source of VTK to
/home/your_name/local/src/VTK4.2</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial>create a VTK directory:
/home/your_name/local/lib/VTK4.2</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial>start a console and </FONT>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>cd /home/your_name/local/lib/VTK4.2</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>cmake -i ../../src/VTK4.2</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>(with Option
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/your_name/local)</FONT></P></LI>
<LI>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>make</FONT></P></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial>make install</FONT></LI></UL>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>Before I entered make, there were files in the
/usr/your_name/local/lib/VTK4.2 directory. They were </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>created by cmake.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>After make install a new directory /usr/your_name/local/lib/vtk and
/usr/your_name/local/include/vtk was created and a lot of files were copied into
them.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>What are the files in /usr/your_name/local/lib/VTK4.2 for?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>Is this the right way to make an out of source build?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>Thanks, </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><FONT
face=Arial>Martin</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>