ITK/MS Free Tool

Microsoft has release a free version of its command-line compiler. Here is a little tutorial on how to get the MS Free Tool working and how to compile ITK with it.

Getting the tool

First you have to download the MS Free tool from Microsoft website:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

However the free MS VC++ toolkit is missing some important tools like "lib.exe", "nmake.exe", "cvtres.exe". To get them you can download the free SDK from microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

You just need the Core SDK. After installing you need to modify the environement variables on your computer: - Right click on My Computer -> Properties - Go to the 'Advanced' tab and click on ' Environment Variables'

Links

http://www.wxwindows.org/lnk_msw.htm

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/msvc.html