[Paraview] Linking failure of vtkpython on Mac OS X 10.5 for Paraview3-CVS

[Michael Wild]

On 9. Aug, 2009, at 16:51, Mike Jackson wrote:
[fixed TOFU]
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Michael Wild<themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> When I try to build a current version of ParaView3 from CVS on Mac  
>> OS X
>> 10.5.7 with Qt 4.5 (the official distribution), cmake-2.6-3 and
>> PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON=TRUE, linking of vtkpython fails with:
>>
>> /usr/bin/c++    -Wno-deprecated  -Wno-deprecated -O3 -DNDEBUG
>> -Wl,-search_paths_first -headerpad_max_install_names -fPIC   - 
>> flat_namespace
>> -undefined suppress -u _PyMac_Error
>> CMakeFiles/vtkpython.dir/vtkPythonAppInit.cxx.o  -o ../../../bin/ 
>> vtkpython
>>  -lpthread -framework Python ../../../bin/libvtksys.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkCommon.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkFiltering.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkIO.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkGraphics.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkImaging.pv3.7.dylib /usr/lib/libutil.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkRendering.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkVolumeRendering.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkHybrid.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkWidgets.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkParallel.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkGeovis.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkInfovis.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkViews.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkInfovis.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkWidgets.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkHybrid.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkParallel.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkRendering.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkIO.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkDICOMParser.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkNetCDF.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkmetaio.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtksqlite.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkpng.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkzlib.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkjpeg.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtktiff.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkexpat.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkGraphics.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkverdict.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkImaging.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkFiltering.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkCommon.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtksys.pv3.7.dylib -lm
>> ../../../bin/libvtkftgl.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkfreetype.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkexoIIc.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtklibxml2.pv3.7.dylib
>> ../../../bin/libvtkalglib.pv3.7.dylib ../../../bin/ 
>> libvtkproj4.pv3.7.dylib
>> ld: file not found: QtGui.framework/Versions/4/QtGui
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> Looking at the library references (otool -L), I see that e.g.
>> bin/libvtkRendering.pv3.7.dylib references QtGui.framework/Versions/ 
>> 4/QtGui
>> (that being the install-name of
>> /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/QtGu). Howerver, why  
>> the
>> linker isn't able to pick up this dependency isn't clear to me,  
>> because it's
>> right there, on the default search path in
>> /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/QtGui.
>>
>> Besides, shouldn't CMake figure out the transitive dependencies and  
>> add
>> -framework QtGui (and friends) to the link line automagically?
>>
>> What irritates me, is that the dashboard doesn't show anything  
>> (however,
>> that one uses OS X 10.4):
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/buildSummary.php?buildid=398013
>>
>> Any idea what's going wrong here?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Not sure what official version of Qt ParaView 3.8 is going to support.
> My hope would be the current version (4.5). If they are still only
> supporting 4.3 (which based on recent email traffic seems to be the
> case) then you may be on your own to try and figure out what is wrong,
> or at least "lead the way". I know I have to patch the ParaView tree
> to get it to build against Qt 4.5 Cocoa and then do some manual file
> copying after the packages are made.
>
> Mike


I don't think this is true. Have a look at the following file (which  
currently is HEAD), starting from line 94:

http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/CMakeLists.txt?annotate=1.108&root=ParaView3


Michael