VTK 5.04, libpng, and many others

VTK:

• follow instruction on how to build VTK from source
• get CMake
• run CMakeSetup.exe from VS command line env
• set the configurations
• open the generated solution file and build from there
  

VTK python:

• after compile and build, use the INSTALL project in the VS solution to install it to configured directory
• to have vtkpython find these vtk packages add this to env:
• PYTHONPATH=D:\VTK\bin;D:\VTK\lib\site-packages
• rename all vtk*python.dll to vtk*python.pyd (python 2.5 only recognizes *.pyd files as packages)

libpng

• convert solution files current VS
• zlib project in the solution doesn't work well, just remove it
• update zlib include and lib path in libpng and pngtest project config

libtiff 3.8.2

• open nmake.opt and update the path to zlib and libjpeg
• then open up VS command line env go to libtiff dir run "nmake /f makefile.vc"
• read install instructions from the lib online for windows

libjpeg

• read the install doc, basically copy jconfig.doc to jconfig.h then run "nmake /f makefile.vc"

zlib

• if you use the prebuilt binary lib from zlib, put the dll file in the system directory so these libraries can find it