Python problems

[David Gobbi]

Hi Maneesh,

If you want to compile with python support, you should specify
the --with-shared option.  Python should also have been built
with the --with-shared option (if python came with your system,
it probably was built --with-shared already).  Ditto for tcl/tk.

If you are compiling with gcc, you will run into problems unless
you use egcs-1.1b or later (egcs-1.1.2 is the most recent version).

The VTK-Linux-HOWTO is also a good source of info (though it is, 
like most HOWTOs, a touch out of date...)

 - David

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  David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Maneesh Yadav wrote:

> (SOrry if some of you have already recieved this, it appears that I was
> posting to an outdated list).  It was suggested to me to recompile, (I
> will try with vtk 3.1) but I just wanted to be sure I wasn't committing an
> obivous error.)
> 
> I currently have VTK 2.4 installed and running (the nvidia opengl lib was
> the source of some of my initial problems, it currently doesn't impliment
> all the mesa calls req'd by VTK).. A large number of examples in the
> python directory don't work, here are a few that do: Cone.py Sphere.py
> etc.
>  
> However most files give me the follwing kind of error,
>  
> File "spring.py", line 46,in ?
>     extrude.SetInput(profile) SystemError: NULL result without error in
> call_object as far as I can tell there is no data req'd for the example.  
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?        
> 
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