[vtkusers] VTK Python on Sun Solaris

[Hua Qian]

Hello vtkusers,

I have a lots of troubles with VTK Python wrapping on Solaris.
I am using Tcl/Tk 8.3.4, Python 2.2.1, VTK CVS  (July 8),
Sun C/C++ compiler 5.3 (also tried gcc-2.95.3). Python was 
built with C++ support enabled and static libpython (libpython2.2.a).

The making for VTK was successful and the tcl wrapping works
just fine, but the python wrapping doesn't work:

[hqian at theremin Python-2.2.1]% ./python
Python 2.2.1 (#6, Jul  8 2002, 18:42:46) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 File "/net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/__init__.py", 
line 7, in ?
   from common import *
 File "/net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/common.py", 
line 7, in ?
   from libvtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: ld.so.1: ./python: fatal: relocation error:
file /net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK-sun/bin/libvtkCommonPython.so:
symbol __1cG__CrunKpure_error6F_v_: referenced symbol not found

David Gobbi pointed me to Andy Cedilnik's posts in the vtk-developers 
mailing-list:
   http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2002-May/thread.htm
I tried Andy's approach, recompiling python (called it vtkpython)  with 
C++ compiler,
but I still could not load vtk import python. The error message is 
different though,

hqian at theremin Python-2.2.1]% ./vtkpython
Python 2.2.1 (#4, Jul  8 2002, 08:46:42) [C] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 File "/net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/__init__.py", 
line 7, in ?
   from common import *
 File "/net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/common.py", 
line 7, in ?
   from libvtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: ld.so.1: ./vtkpython: fatal: relocation error:
file /net/chaos/chaos/data/hqian/VTK-sun/bin/libvtkCommonPython.so:
symbol __1cDstdEcerr_: referenced symbol not found

The static lib libpython*.a might be the source of the problem, but the
python distribution doesn't offer an easy way to build dynamic loaded
libpython*.so.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hua

-- 
Hua Qian, Ph.D.
Programmer/Analyst
Imaging Research Laboratories
Robarts Research Institute