[vtk-developers] Correct packaging of Tcl/Python/Java wrappers

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 17:30:12 EDT 2017


Hi Sefan,

Yes, the vtkWrap* and vtkParseJava executables are only for development,
they are not required at runtime.

 - David

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Brüns, Stefan <Stefan.Bruens at rwth-aachen.de
> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> commonly distributions split VTK into several packages, e.g.:
>
> - libvtk (VTK implementation shared libraries)
> - vtk-python (Python wrappers)
> - vtk-java (Java wrappers)
> - vtk-tcl (Tcl wrappers)
> - vtk-devel (development headers, cmake files)
>
> As far as I understand, the vtkWrap{Python,Tcl,Java}{,Init} executables
> are
> used to generate the wrappers itself, and can be used to generate wrappers
> for
> e.g. derived classes.
>
> These executables are no runtime dependency of the wrappers, and as such
> should be packaged with the development headers, correct?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stefan
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