[vtkusers] compiling vtk under FreeBSD 4.4 with SMP?

[David Gobbi]

Hi Elvis,

It's been a while since I've seen you on the list!
Welcome back! (Or maybe I just haven't been paying
attention recently).

With VTK 3.2, I'm fairly confident that 'configure'
should automatically set up SMP if the pthreads library
exists on the computer.  Are you sure the FreeBSD version
doesn't use pthreads already?

Otherwise, if you could get in touch with whoever is
maintaining the port, it should definitely be set up
for pthreads.

I've used the Matrox G400 with DRI under linux, and it
works well except that for some reason the textures are
always 16-bit, and I can't find any way to force them to
be 32-bit.  Under the old utah-glx drivers 32-bit textures
were possible.

 - David

--
  David Gobbi, MSc                       dgobbi at irus.rri.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Chen, Elvis wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I recently migrated from linux to FreeBSD 4.4.  To my
> surprise there is a vtk port:
>
>
> Port:   vtk-3.2
> Path:   /usr/ports/math/vtk
> Info:   The Visualization Toolkit
> Maint:  ports at FreeBSD.org
> Index:  math
> B-deps: Mesa-3.4.2_1 XFree86-3.3.6_10 python-2.1.1
> tcl-8.3.4_3 tk-8.3.4_1
> R-deps: Mesa-3.4.2_1 XFree86-3.3.6_10 python-2.1.1
> tcl-8.3.4_3 tk-8.3.4_1
>
>
> I'm using Matrox G400 with XFree86 4.1.0.  I believe
> there is hardware OpenGL acceleration (DRI).
>
> I would like to compile vtk for SMP (dual processors
> )support.  With linux, all I had to do was to add
>
> THREAD_LIBS          = -lpthread
>
> in system.make
>
>
> However, since FreeBSD has port for vtk, how am I
> going to proceed with this?  Should I download vtk
> source and compile it anyway, or should I modify vtk
> port definition to enable SMP?
>
> Thank you,
>
> ECC
>
>
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