[vtkusers] Installing VTK on Linux

[Juerg Tschirren]

Did you use the --with-mesa switch when you did the ./configure for the
vtk package? It sounds like you missed that.


Juerg

P.S.: You can execute ./configure --help in the vtk src directory to learn
about other switches that my apply for you installation.




On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Asad A. Abu-Tarif wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been using VTK extensively for about 3 years now.
> However, I've been using it on an NT machine. Now I'm
> trying to install it and run examples on a RedHat Linux
> machine. I downloaded Mesa and installed it, downloaded
> VTK and compiled it and then I tried to compile and run
> one of the examples that come with VTK.
> It compiles fine but I always get this error whenever I try
> to run it (or any other example I try):
>
> *************************************************************
> Generic Warning: In vtkGraphicsFactory.cxx, line 291
> Attempting to create an OpenGL or Mesa based object with a VTK that is not
> linked/configured with Mesa/OpenGL.
>
> Then the example core dumps.
> *************************************************************
> Obviously I'm doing something wrong with Mesa installation. Coule any one help?
>
> I'm using using the make file that comes with VTK and gcc as my compiler.
>
> I've seen a lot of discussion before about installing VTK on Linux but I
> searched the archieve and couldn't find this one. However, I still apologize
> if this is a repeated question.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Asad
> tarifa at rpi.edu
>