VTK 7.1.1 was patched to enable compilation for Windows 32bit. Patch: VTK-7.1.1/ThirdParty/tiff/vtktiff/libtiff/tif_config.h.in, Line 389: //#undef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS VTK-7.1.1/ThirdParty/tiff/vtktiff/libtiff/tif_config.h.cmake.in, Line 279: #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 For a working dev environment: Path += C:\VTK-7.1.1\build\bin CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH += C:\VTK-7.1.1\build