[vtkusers] VTK 4.4 installation error

[Terry J Ligocki]

It looks like VTK 4.4 didn't find X11 on your machine.  When this 
happens, it tries to continue and build with a deprecated windowing 
environment.  In the end, this fails.  I am guessing this due to the 
name "vtkXRenderWindowInteractor" in the failed link line and the fact 
that "-lX11" doesn't appear on the link line (nor a "-I...X11..." for 
the X11 headers).

The most likely reason for all of this is that you have the X11 
libraries installed on you machine but the "X11 development environment" 
(or some such name) is NOT installed on your machine.  It is common that 
the default installations of various Linux distributions does NOT 
include any of the development environments for most of the packages 
installed.  It only includes the libraries.

The necessary X11 include files may be in various locations (depending 
on the Linux you are using), e.g., "/usr/include/X11", 
"/usr/X11R6/include", etc.  In any case, make sure the X11 development 
environment is installed on your machine, start the installation from 
the beginning (i.e., the original tarball with nothing compiled), and 
see if that works (watch to see if "X11" appears in some form on the 
compile and link lines.

Good luck!

       Sincerely,

       Terry J. (Ligocki, tjligocki at lbl.gov)
> I'm trying to install Chombovis on a Linux Red Hat machine. This 
> package let me to install as prerequisite programs:
>
> HDF5 1.61
> Tcl 8.3
> Tk 8.3
> Python 2.3.3
> Pmw 1.2
> Mesa 6.2
> Cmake 1.8
> -> VTK 4.4
> ChomboVis
>
> However, the installation stops during VTK 4.4 install, with the 
> follwing lines. Please could someone possibly tell me what's wrong 
> with this installation? Thank you
> Davide
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