Thanks for the help Clinton - I tried that out and it seemed to work. After running CMake, I went into the VTK-build directory and found VTK.cbp. I clicked on it and it open up the project in CodeBlocks. I&#39;m not sure where to go from here. When I did this in Visual Studio, there was a project in the solution explorer called ALL_BUILD and another called INSTALL both of which I was able to build. I looked for something similar in the CodeBlocks project explorer and wasn&#39;t able to find anything. I also tried clicking &quot;build and run&quot; in CodeBlocks and it gave me the following message: <br>
<br>You can&#39;t &quot;run&quot; a commands-only target... <br><br>I can go into the project properties and change the build/target type to dynamic library, static library, console application or gui application. Do I need to change to one of these or do I need to do something else altogether?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Clinton Stimpson [via VTK] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4655195&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">

        <br>You need to use mingw32-gcc.exe and mingw32-g++.exe as your C and CXX 
<br>compiler.
<br><br>Can you just add C:/Program Files (x86)/CodeBlocks/MinGW/bin to your PATH 
<br>environment variable and then have cmake-gui figure out which compilers and 
<br>make programs to pick from that directory?
<br><br>Clint
<br><br>On Friday, July 29, 2011 08:01:45 am com wrote:
</div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>&gt; I deleted the cache in the CMAKE gui and started over again without any of
<br>&gt; the Qt stuff - I&#39; figured I&#39;d add that in after the initial configure. This
<br>&gt; is what I had set in the CMAKE gui to start.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER      C:/Program Files (x86)/CodeBlocks/codeblocks.exe
<br>&gt; CMAKE_C_COMPILER          C:/Program Files (x86)/CodeBlocks/codeblocks.exe
<br>&gt; CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM   C:/Program Files
<br>&gt; (x86)/CodeBlocks/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe
<br>&gt; CMAKE_SH                          - not filled in
<br>&gt; CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS - unchecked
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; I get this error message when I press configure.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; The C compiler identification is unknown
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; The CXX compiler identification is unknown
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files
<br>&gt; (x86)/CodeBlocks/codeblocks.exe
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files
<br>&gt; (x86)/CodeBlocks/codeblocks.exe -- broken
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
<br>&gt; 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (MESSAGE):
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; The C compiler &quot;C:/Program Files (x86)/CodeBlocks/codeblocks.exe&quot; is not
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; able to compile a simple test program.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; It fails with the following output:
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Change Dir: C:/Program Files (x86)/VTK_build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt;  Run Build Command:C:/PROGRA~2/CODEBL~1/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; &quot;cmTryCompileExec/fast&quot;
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; C:/PROGRA~2/CODEBL~1/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\build.make
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; mingw32-make.exe[1]: Entering directory `C:/Program Files
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; (x86)/VTK_build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp&#39;
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\bin\cmake.exe&quot; -E cmake_progress_report
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\VTK_build\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\CMakeFiles&quot; 1
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; C:\PROGRA~2\CODEBL~1\CODEBL~1.EXE -o
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj -c &quot;C:\Program Files
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; (x86)\VTK_build\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\testCCompiler.c&quot;
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; mingw32-make.exe[1]: ***
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; [CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj] Error -1
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Program Files
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; (x86)/VTK_build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp&#39;
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; mingw32-make.exe: *** [cmTryCompileExec/fast] Error 2
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt;   CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Call Stack (most recent call first):
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; CMakeLists.txt:9 (PROJECT)
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Not sure what to do here? This is my first time using CMAKE and I haven&#39;t
<br>&gt; had much experience with makefiles in general, so please pardon my lack of
<br>&gt; knowledge in this area.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; Jothy asked if I had built Qt using mingw. Yes, it was built using mingw.
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; 
<br>&gt; On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:54 AM, John Drescher-2 [via VTK] &lt;
<br>&gt; 
</div></div></div><div class="im">&gt; <a href="http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&amp;node=4647590&amp;i=0" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">[hidden email]</a>&gt; wrote:
<br>&gt; &gt; On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM, com &lt;[hidden
<br></div>&gt; &gt; email]&lt;<a href="http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&amp;node=4642998&amp;i=0" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&amp;node=4642998&amp;i=0</a>&gt;&gt;
<br><div><div></div><div class="h5">&gt; &gt; 
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>&gt; &gt; wrote:
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; Thanks for the advice. I downloaded CodeBlocks and and choose the
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; CodeBlocks
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; - MinGW Makefiles options in CMake. I checked to see what compiler
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; CodeBlocks is using, and it says GNU GCC Compiler - not sure if this is
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; what
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; I want or if I need something else. Unfortunately I get the following
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; error
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; message:
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; &quot;MinGW Makefiles&quot;. CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to
<br>&gt; &gt; &gt; select a different build tool.
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; Find the directory for the make that mingw uses and set this variable
<br>&gt; &gt; in cmake-gui
<br>&gt; &gt; 
<br>&gt; &gt; John
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