[vtkusers] Building VTK 4.4 on Mac OS X 10.2.6 (SetFrontProcess failed,-606)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Gordon,

	Try this example :

$vtk VTK/Examples/Tutorial/Step1/Tcl/Cone.tcl

mathieu

Gordon Kindlmann wrote:
> hi,
> 
>>> c++        -Wno-deprecated -no-cpp-precomp -fPIC  vtkTkAppInit.o    
>>> -o /Users/gk/vtk/VTK/bin/vtk  -L. -L/Users/gk/vtk/VTK/bin 
>>> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lvtkCommonTCL -lvtkFilteringTCL -lvtkGraphicsTCL 
>>> -lvtkImagingTCL -lvtkIOTCL -lvtkRenderingTCL -lvtkPatentedTCL 
>>> -lvtkRendering -lvtkftgl -lvtkfreetype -framework AGL -framework 
>>> OpenGL -lSM -lICE -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lX11 -lXext -framework 
>>> Cocoa -framework Tk -lvtkPatented -lvtkIOTCL -lvtkIO -lvtkDICOMParser 
>>> -lvtkpng -lvtktiff -lvtkzlib -lvtkjpeg -lvtkexpat -lvtkGraphicsTCL 
>>> -lvtkGraphics -lvtkImagingTCL -lvtkImaging -lvtkFilteringTCL 
>>> -lvtkFiltering -lvtkCommonTCL -lvtkCommon -framework AppKit -lpthread 
>>> -lm -framework Tcl
>>
>>
>> Could you please try adding '-lz' at the end of this line, this should 
>> force linking to zlib.
> 
> 
> Yes, it seems to do the trick.  When I suffix this long command with 
> "-lz" I am able to produce a vtk binary.  Thanks!
> 
> And now, Act II.
> 
> When I run this vtk binary, it opens a WISH window which seems to work a 
> little.  That is, I can type:
> 
> % button .b -text goodbye -command exit
> % pack .b
> 
> which creates my button.  However, I cannot bring this window to the 
> foreground.  Whenever I click on it, I get:
> 
> SetFrontProcess failed,-606
> 
> in the terminal window from which I ran the "vtk" binary.  Web searches 
> on this error message have not been unambiguously helpful.
> 
> Please advice on where to go from here.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Gordon
> 
>