[vtkusers] How do I make a VTK Binary Install on OSX ???

[Marcel Prastawa]

It can be placed anywhere. However, if it's not at the standard library 
locations (/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, etc) you will need to add the path 
to the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
For example, you can add the following to your .tcshrc:
setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /my/vtk/directory:/some/other/directory

Some consider this to be bad practice, as it can slow down dynamic 
library lookups and potentially cause other problems. Personally, I 
haven't had any problems with it.

A script? A better solution would be to package up VTK and have 
something that Installer.app could process.I think that you could dig up 
Apple's tech docs to figure out how to do this. I am not sure if this is 
worth doing though.

Marcel

Aaron Boxer wrote:

>Hello,
>I have built VTK on OSX 10.1 I would now like to do a
>binary install of this VTK llibrary onto another OSX
>system.
> 
>Where should I put the *.dylib files, and what
>environment variables should I set?
>Better yet, is there a script to handle such a task?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Aaron Boxer
>boxerab at NOSPAMyahoo.com
>
>
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