[vtk-developers] VTK/VES and emscripten?

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Steve Pieper <pieper at ibility.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks -
>
> Has anyone tried VES/VTK and emscripten[1]?  Other OpenGL (ES) game
> platforms appear to compile to javascript and work with WebGL (even on a
> phone!) and you can even run complete, if simple, Qt applications in a
> browser.
>

The last time we tried to compile VES using emscripten didn't work out
(just pure VES (no VTK code). It was an effort with one of the Mozilla
developer, however I must mention that we didn't spend a whole lot of time
on it.

>
> I can already hear the purists scream about this being an 'ugly hack'
> which, I have to admit, it kind of is.  But it also shows some promise and
> for a certain subset of VTK functionality it might make sense to expose
> javascript bindings this way rather than rewriting something new in pure
> javascript.  See for example the zlib, python, sqlite, and other large
> C/C++ code bases that are automagically available now in the browser.
>
> We are certainly interesting in trying this approach and will pursue it
again. If you would like to contribute, then let us know.

- Aashish



> Thoughts?
> -Steve
>
> [1] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
>
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| Aashish Chaudhary
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