[vtkusers] Python/Tk Widgets Library

[David Gobbi]

Hi gray_java at hotmail.com,

My guess is that you are using RedHat 7.2 or some other very
recent distribution.  For some reason, on these systems Tcl
expects extensions to end in ".so" whereas previously Tcl
didn't expect any extension.

So, just find libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets (without the .so),
cd into that directory, and do
ln -s libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.so
and the problem will be solved.

If anyone knows why tcl suddenly started expecting a ".so" extension
on these systems, I'd love to hear.

 - David

--
  David Gobbi, MSc                       dgobbi at irus.rri.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, f f wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When attempting to run "python vtkTkRenderWidget.py" from the
> Wrapping/Python directory I am informed "TclError: couldn't load file
> "libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.so": libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
>
> So I looked all over for it and can't find it. It isn't in the /bin
> directory where I would expect it to be. The closest i've got is
> libvtkRenderingPython.so. Is there some sort of special installation
> procedure I should follow to get the missing library? Do you have to install
> VTK with Tcl support to get it maybe?
>
> thanks
>
>
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