[vtk-developers] Location of tcl libs

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Generally, to find the vtk package in a source tree, you either do:

export TCLIBPATH=/home/bill/builds/vtk/Wrapping/Tcl

or in a tcl script

lappend auto_path  /home/bill/builds/vtk/Wrapping/Tcl

It sounds like that the vtk package is found but it's mixing up the
location of the shared libs.

On *nix the shared libs are created in ${VTK_BINARY_DIR}/lib and that same
directory is hardcoded in the pkgIndex.tcl file.

In your file /home/bill/builds/vtk/Wrapping/Tcl/pkgIndex.tcl
or  /home/bill/builds/vtk/Wrapping/Tcl/Debug/pkgIndex.tcl you should see a
line (38)

::vtk::init::load_library_package {vtk${kit}TCL} {
/home/bill/builds/vtk/lib}

For a build tree, that directory in the curly braces should
match ${VTK_BINARY_DIR}/lib - aka LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH -
aka CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY

For an install tree, the directory will relative:

::vtk::init::load_library_package {vtk${kit}TCL} {[file dirname [file
dirname [file dirname [info script]]]]}

Goodwin


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is my first attempt to run tcl tests for VTK6.
>
> When I run the executable vtk and type
> package require vtk
>
> it seems that tcl is looking for the shared tcl libs in vtk's bin dir,
> yet the libs are in vtk's lib dir.
>
> Do I need to set something in my CMake file or environment.
>
> Running on Fedora 13.
>
> Bill
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