[vtk-developers] VTK on iOS

[David Cole]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sason,
>
> You will definitely have to do some iOS-specific modifications to CMake,
> if you haven't already done so you should look at what has been done for ITK:
> http://mial.fas.sfu.ca/researchProject.php?s=401
>
> VTK is well-tested on OS X 10.6 (at least from VTK 5.6 and onwards) so
> in addition to your iOS test system, you should build and run VTK on
> OS X as your baseline.
>
> The VTK User's Guide and Mastering CMake are both useful.  Most of the
> same information is online (in fact all of it for CMake) but a book can be
> more pleasant to read than a computer screen.
>

Minor correction: Mastering CMake is *not* available in its entirety
online. Only the appendices of the book are available, and the
"tutorial" chapter. The rest of the chapters, with explanatory text,
are not available online. They only appear in the book. Of course,
having said that, there is nothing iOS specific mentioned in the book.

I would suggest taking the "cross-compiling" approach and using "Unix
Makefiles" as your generator.

Ask questions on the CMake users mailing list if you run into troubles.


HTH,
David C.


> I don't have an answer to the OpenGL question because I don't know what
> parts of OpenGL exist in iOS.  But VTK has been tested across a very
> broad range of OpenGL implementations.
>
> For multi-touch, I've made a github branch of Pierre Fillard's
> work-in-progress here:
> http://github.com/dgobbi/VTK/tree/multi-touch
> based on his original code here:
> http://sites.google.com/site/pierrefillard/coding-blog/multi-touchgesturesinvtk
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Sason Ohanian Saki <sason at kth.se> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am a CS/Engineering student from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden and I have just started to work on my masters thesis which is to investigate whether VTK or parts of VTK can be run on an iPad/iOS and to make the necessary implementations.
>>
>> I have spent some time reading through some documentation, the wiki, looking at code etc. From what I understand so far it should be possible and what primarily needs to be done is to make new openGL(ES) implementations, renderer for CocaTouch, editing/extending some factory classes etc...
>>
>> I have just gotten started and I am having some trouble with CMake and building VTK. I have little familiarity with CMake and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction (or any direction) of building VTK for the iPad. Please bare with me if my questions seems stupid, but here they come...
>>
>> How do I use CMake to build VTK for iPad/iOS? Will I need to edit the CMake files to add information to be able to build for a new platform? I am referring to for example VTK_USE_COCOA and references to openGL, Im assuming some code needs to be added to handle Cocoa Touch and OpenGL ES.
>>
>> Should I invest in the books "VTK User's Guide" and/or "Mastering CMake"? Will they be of significance in helping me to do what i want to do? (I´m on a tight budget).
>>
>> Any kind of help is much appreciated, like links to documentation or literature that could be useful.
>>
>> /Sason
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>
>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>
>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers
>
>