Building vtk with QT5 windows 8

Question

I'm facing a rather weird error. I can see on the wiki that we can build vtk with support for qt5. However, when trying to do so and first configuring with cmake I get the following output:

CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:1326 (message): Found unsuitable Qt version "5.4.2" from C:/Qt/5.4/msvc2012_opengl/bin/qmake.exe, this code requires Qt 4.x Call Stack (most recent call first): GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:71 (find_package)

I have followed previous posts on SO like: How to find qt5 CMake module on windows or cmake does not find qt 5.1.1 but they do not solve my problem so far.

I have tried to set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to C:/Qt/5.4/msvc2012_opengl/ and QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to C:/Qt/5.4/msvc2012_opengl/bin/qmake.exe

And yet it doesn't work. Does anyone have an explanation for that?

Answer 1

Did you do step 3 and 4 here? : Combining Qt 5.4.1 with vtk 6.2.0 (using CMake GUI 3.2.1) on windows

I'm guessing you didn't change VTK_QT_VERSION to 5