[vtk-developers] Building relocatable libs

Steve Pieper pieper at bwh.harvard.edu
Wed Mar 10 20:04:54 EST 2004


Yes, I ran into this problem - now when I package up my program to 
distribute I substitute the attached file for the default pkgIndex.tcl 
file that has all the hardcoded paths in it.

Hope that helps,
-Steve

ps. if there's a better solution, I'd love to hear it.

Chris Volpe wrote:

> I figure lots of people must have had a need to do this, so I’m sure 
> this is an easy question. I want to build VTK in a way that the result 
> can be placed on another machine, in an arbitrary location, and the user 
> of that machine will be able to run Wish script applications, As it 
> stands, the wrapping files in VTKBIN are full of absolute path names and 
> such, making it difficult to do a “package require vtk” unless you work 
> through all the absolute path names everywhere they exist and root them 
> all out. Is there a facility for doing this automatically?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> **Chris**
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