[vtkusers] Building VTK for XDarwin

[Sander Niemeijer]

Joey,

I don't have any experience in building VTK for Cygwin/Xfree86.
However, we are using Cygwin, but only so we can use 'normal' makefiles 
to build a native windows application.

Another thing to mention is that we probably won't use the quartz build 
of VTK for the Apple platform since we are using wxWindows for our GUI, 
and I  A) haven't (yet) succeeded in getting wxMAC to work under OS X 
and B) don't know if wxMAC and the quartz VTK build will work together 
at all. As far as I know wxMAC uses carbon and vtk uses Cocoa and I 
don't know if one can easilly interchange windowhandles between these 
frameworks (that's the way the wxVTKWindow class works). But that 
question is a topic for another mailinglist :-)

Regards,
Sander

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Joey Mukherjee wrote:

>
>
>> First of all if you want to build the quartz version make sure that in
>> the cmake configuration you set VTK_USE_QUARTZ to ON en VTK_USE_X to
>> OFF. And of course if you want to build the version for X set them vice
>> versa.
>
> Thanks for posting that!  I thought I was the only one porting X 
> software to Mac
> and Windows and needed the ability to turn on X support on the other two
> platforms.
>
> Having said that and noting that your changes only work for Mac, is 
> there to
> make it to where it will work with Windows as well?  With Windows, you 
> can get
> Cygwin and Xfree86 to have a full X environment which works well.  I'd 
> be happy
> to test!
>
> I hacked the Make/Cmake/Cxx/h files to get it working, but there must 
> be a
> better way.  I admit I have a hard time with the Cmake, since even after
> following the instructions, I get the Local directory having a weird 
> dependency
> on itself.  Anyone else having this problem?  All I had in my
> LocalUserOptions.cmake options was SUBDIRS (Local).  Weird.  Anyway...
>
> Joey
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