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-rw-r--r--Modules/VTKCompatibility.cmake4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/VTKCompatibility.cmake b/Modules/VTKCompatibility.cmake
index f8330a7..7b21bd8 100644
--- a/Modules/VTKCompatibility.cmake
+++ b/Modules/VTKCompatibility.cmake
@@ -31,3 +31,7 @@ SET(VTK_WGLEXT_FILE "${VTK_SOURCE_DIR}/Utilities/ParseOGLExt/headers/wglext.h"
# work around an old bug in VTK
SET(TIFF_RIGHT_VERSION 1)
+# for very old VTK (versions prior to 4.2)
+if (NOT VTK_MAJOR_VERSION)
+ message (FATAL_ERROR "You are trying to build a very old version of VTK (prior to VTK 4.2). To do this you need to use CMake 2.0 as it was the last version of CMake to support VTK 4.0.")
+endif (NOT VTK_MAJOR_VERSION)