[vtkusers] Mac OSX and VTK 4.0 question

[Nathan Smith]

I would also like to add a point to these instructions -- linking up with
the VTK directories using G++ will not automatically make your shared
libraries (if thats indeed what your making, if you are just writing
straight executable code, then this might not pertain) wrappable with tcl,
python and java. In order to make them wrappable, you should use CMake,
which is possibly a pain in the arse to get used to, but it really does
make the whole compilation process much easier after everything is set up.
And there are instructions in the man pages, or the README (?) on how to
set up the correct directories and have them wrapped, etc. Just my .2$

Nate


 On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, John wrote:

> Hi Gala,
>
> export LIBRARY_PATH
> LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/vtk
>
> to your .bashrc (if you are using bash) or whatever is appropriate for the
> shell youre using and the location of your VTK libs.
>
> hopefully that will do it.
>
> A better way to fix the prob i think is to maybe give gcc a
> -L/usr/local/lib/vtk and then specify what libraries you want to link
> against with -l (lower case L)
>
> i havent tried compiling C or C++ apps with VTK4, as i use the tcl system
> but you will probably have to let your compiler know that it should also
> look in /usr/local/include/vtk for your vtk header (*.h) files (or wherever
> you have put them on your system)
>
> something like this may do the trick:
> export C_INCLUDE_PATH
> C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include:/usr/local/include/vtk
>
> or:
>
> export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
> CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include:/usr/local/include/vtk
>
> or you may prefer to add a directive when you compile to tell gcc to search
> in the right place for vtk includes.
>
> -I/usr/local/include/vtk
> that was a capital i by the way there.
>
> i am really vague on this but i think you probly have to do something like
> the above.
>
> John
>
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:31 am, you wrote:
> > After several months of absense from the list, "Gala'Vi and Liss @
> > Mainframe Country" is back, under a different e-mail address. I've
> > moved on from NCSA and now reside at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
> >
> > Yeah, and we've got Macs. I've managed to get VTK 4.0 working without
> > too many problems before on Linux. I've ran 3.2 on Mac OSX with a very
> > good degree of success.
> >
> > Now I'm on 4.0, with CMake and all this crud. VTK compiled fine with
> > X11 and OpenGL support and tests run and display fine on my new
> > dual-processor G4. However, I don't seem to be able to compile an
> > application using VTK 4.0. It just barfs at me with a bunch of
> > unresolved symbol errors (unresolved for every object there is) I think
> > this has something to do with the absense of lib*.a files, but there
> > doesn't seem to be any way that I could think of to get the static
> > libraries to build. I'm not a CMake pro and am lucky that the darn
> > thing worked. I liked the old way much better, at least I didn't have
> > to deal with yet another nasty package.
> >
> > Anyways, if anybody managed to get their own test applications to work
> > on OSX, please let me know.
> >
> > Gala Wind
> > (301) 614-6221
> > wind at climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > Code 913, Climate and Radiation
> > L-3 Comm/ Emergent East
> > NASA/GSFC
> > Greenbelt, MD 20771
> >
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