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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>VTK Gurus,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After many hours of reading and trial and error I am finally making a little progress. After I get this all figured out I will document properly and post so other newbies don't have to go through this hell.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cmake is installed. Visual Studio 12 Express is installed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I enter C:/Program Files (x86)/VTK6.0.0 for the "Where is the source code" field. I enter C:/Users/Greg/Documents/VTK for the "Where to build the binaries" field. (It took me a long time to figure out that you can't put that directory anywhere in Program Files as Windows 8 prevents apps from writing there.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I click the Configure button cmake finds the compiler and runs for a long time. I check all the boxes for items in red and click Configure button again. It finally fails with:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Could NOT find MPI_C (missing: MPI_C_LIBRARIES MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Could NOT find MPI_CXX (missing: MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>CMake Error at CMake/vtkTestingMPISupport.cmake:31 (message):</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>MPIEXEC was empty.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>Call Stack (most recent call first):</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>Parallel/MPI/CMakeLists.txt:5 (include)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Greg</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>