[vtk-developers] Fwd: vtk 64 bit support

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed May 15 16:39:12 EDT 2013


We use VTK (and VTK in ParaView) on 64bit machines quite regularly.
Not exactly sure what issues that Wiki entry was talking about, but
they must have been resolved since.

Utkarsh

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
<jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alexander Yarmarkovich <alexy at bwh.harvard.edu>
> Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM
> Subject: vtk 64 bit support
> To: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <JChris.FillionR at kitware.com>, Julien
> Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>
> Cc: Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu>
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>
> In vtk FAQ http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#64-bit_System_Issues
>
> it says:
>
> "vtk builds on 64 bit systems, that is, systems where sizeof(void*) is 64
> bits. However, parts of the vtk codebase are not 64 bit clean and so runtime
> problems are likely if that code is used"
>
> Is it still true or this is an obsolete statement?
>
> Alex
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