[vtk-developers] Mac OSX version of VTK

[Jon Harald Kaspersen]

Hi All vtk-developers,

I have been using VTK for almost a year now, mostly for 3D medical 
visualizations.  I did install it first on a Mac G4 running Yellowdog 
Linux.  Then the new Mac OSX (beta) came last September, and I 
started looking around for people with experience compiling VTK on 
OSX.  After a while I came across a group of developers in Canada 
(Western Ontario) who successfully had build VTK on OSX.  They (Yves 
Starreveld and David Gobbi, especially Yves on the OSX port) have 
done a great job in my opinion.
The reason for sending this mail is purely a request for an OSX patch 
of VTK in the upcoming VTK4.  It should not be to much work to make 
the configure script OSX friendly.  It would be very nice to be able 
to wrap the vtk classes so that they can be used from Obj-C in 
Interfacebuilder.
The Mac marked may not be that big, but I think that with a VTK 
version running on OSX it is possible that some may choose the new 
Mac operating system instead of Linux boxes.  My experience with OSX 
is that it is both stable and fast(when running apps from the 
terminal).  I did install it last September and I have not 
experienced a "system hang" up to now, and I have been using it quite 
"rough".

I hope that the vtk-developer community and Kitware can contribute to 
make a OSX friendly version of VTK4.

Regards
Jon Harald Kaspersen
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