VTK compiling problem with Linux platform

[red at ancalagon.franken.de]

Dingrong Yi wrote

>(1) startx -- -bpp 32 
>did not give me a graphical window, but no error message either. However, 
>it seems to me my X server works properly other wise.

X11-problem, not a vtk-problem. 
Read your Linux-docu concerning X11-setup.


>(2) gmake give me sucu error message.
>
>TKCommon -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL 
>/usr/lib/libMesaGL.so 
>/usr/lib/libtk8.0.so /usr/lib/libtcl8.0.so -ldl -lpthread \
>-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lm
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lGL: No such file or directory


ln -s /usr/lib/libMesaGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so

that should do it.


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