[vtkusers] OS X

[Andrew Cunningham]

On 3/26/01 9:00 AM, "vtkusers-admin at public.kitware.com"
<vtkusers-admin at public.kitware.com> wrote:

> Since Mac OS X has OpenGL I'm hoping that it won't be too much
> work. I'm going to try and compile on my iBook tonight to see
> what happens.
> 
> Is anyone working on this? Is anyone else interested?


There are two ways to get VTK running on OSX. Both have been done.

99% of VTK compiles "as is" with ./configure;make as OS X is real Unix with
the usual GNU tools (Gcc 2.95 et al.).

As far as displaying graphics you either do ....

X-Window port
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OS X does not use X-windows, so you need either

-  Tenons Xtools
This means buying Xtools, but you get a supported , commercial quality
X-server with full OpenGL/GLX support.

- XFree86 
Free but currently has some limitations. Have not tried this myself.

The above X-Windows "port" could easily be merged into the standard VTK dist
with some minor mods to the configure scripts.


Cocoa port
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Avoid X-Windows entirely and use Cocoa. Requires the building of a Cocoa
(Objective-C) bridge and "vtkxxxxRenderWindowxxx" etc classes for Quartz
This has been done  - see the previous post by
Jon Harald Kaspersen <Jon.H.Kaspersen at unimed.sintef.no>


Andrew
                 
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