[vtk-developers] proposed vtk build changes

[David Gobbi]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Michael Halle wrote:

> Since only one core implementation library is pulled in per wrapper
> library, you have to load all libraries you need if you're going to
> use this feature (you can't count on one wrapper library pulling all
> the implementation libraries):
> 
> load ./libVTKCommonTcl.so
> load ./libVTKGraphicsTcl.so
> load ./libVTKImagingTcl.so
> load ./libVTKContribTcl.so

Just a quick note about the tcl wrappers:  If you go into vtk/tcl and do

make vtktcl

then a single "vtktcl" module is built which you can load into wish:

load vtktcl

This is probably better than loading all the .so files (particularly 
for the sake of portability... remember that the ".so" extension only 
exists on ELF-based unix distributions).

Perhaps "vtktcl" should be built by default?  It's pretty small. 

 - 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