[vtk-developers] Make install and python

Sebastien BARRE sebastien.barre at kitware.com
Wed May 1 15:32:12 EDT 2002


At 5/1/2002 03:22 PM, David Gobbi wrote:
>On 1 May 2002, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
>
> > Any special reason why make install does not install python modules?
>
>It sure would be nice.  It just hasn't been done yet.
>Prabhu will probably have more to say on this, he has thought
>about it more than anyone else.
>
>IMHO the proper place to install the modules (both the .py and .so files)
>is in <path-to-python>/site-packages/VTKXX/ on UNIX machines and
><path-to-python>/VTKXX/ on Windows machines where XX is the VTK version
>number e.g. 40, 42, etc.

As Windows (and Python 2.x) are concerned, I would say:
<path-to-python>/Lib/site-packagesVTKXX/
as far as I know, this is where all the modules for Python 2.x go (this is 
where they installed themselves on my computer, i.e. Numeric, OpenGL, 
wxPython, etc).

>The VTK binary installers also do not install the python modules,
>and they are missing the vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.

Still ? I thought I propagated that to our GBPM, "Great Binary Package 
Master", Kenneth Maurice Martin.


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Sebastien Barre




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